SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is asking the city for some big financial help to stay afloat.

Since opening in 2002, the $12.3 million, city-subsidized center has struggled to pay its mortgage and is now on the verge of foreclosure.

Officials are now asking the city for a $1 million line of credit.

The LGBT Center’s staff of 24 provides counseling, job training, HIV prevention and other programs. Center officials had expected to rely on income from community room rentals and donations, but both have dropped off in the recession.

The bailout plan still needs approval from the Board of Supervisors and mayor.

Supervisor Bevan Dufty says it’s a tough time for cash-strapped San Francisco but says keeping the center alive would be a “tremendous benefit” for the city.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Gay rights groups say they have purchased full-page advertisements opposing a Boulder Catholic school’s decision to eject two children because their parents are a lesbian couple.

DignityUSA, a gay rights group of Roman Catholics, and other groups are advertising in Sunday’s Camera newspaper in Boulder, saying the school’s decision is hurtful and damages the fabric of the community. The groups say they have also purchased an ad in The Denver Post.

Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput (SHAP’-yoo) is defending the school’s decision, saying Tuesday it’s a “painful situation” but the decision is in line with church beliefs.

Neither the parents nor the children have been identified. Messages to the archdiocese Friday were not immediately returned.

DENVER (AP) – The archbishop of Denver on Tuesday defended a decision by a Catholic school not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said it was a “painful situation,” but the decision by Sacred Heart of Jesus parish school in Boulder was in line with church teachings.

Chaput said the school told the parents that one of the children could complete kindergarten and the other could complete preschool, but neither could continue after that.

Previous reports indicated only one child was involved. Neither the parents nor the children have been identified.

Mindy Barton, legal director of the GLBT Community Center in Denver, which supports gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, said she believes the school was within its legal rights.

Barton has said the center would still investigate to determine whether the school violated any discrimination laws.

About two dozen protesters stood outside Sacred Heart of Jesus church on Sunday with signs, one reading “God loves all people.”

In his written statement Tuesday, Chaput said the parents of Catholic school students are expected to agree with church beliefs, including those forbidding sex between anyone other than married, heterosexual couples.

“The church cannot change these teachings because, in the faith of Catholics, they are the teachings of Jesus Christ,” he said.

Chaput said Catholic schools work as religious partners with parents, but that doesn’t work if the parents don’t respect church beliefs or openly reject them. He said that also puts unfair stress on the children and their teachers.

Chaput acknowledged that many Catholic schools accept students from other faiths and from single-parent families, but he said their parents are expected to support the Catholic mission of the school.

He said the church doesn’t believe God has any less love for the children of gays and lesbians than for other children, or that gays and lesbians are bad people.

ATLANTA (AP) – An Atlanta judge has found three defendants in a case spawned by a late-night raid on a crowded gay bar not guilty.

Municipal Judge Crystal Gaines tossed out charges against the other five defendants in the case that accused men of dancing naked without permits and operators of the Atlanta Eagle with running an unlicensed adult establishment.

Each violation carried a maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

A national gay rights group filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Department accusing authorities of illegally searching patrons during the Sept. 10 raid.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) – Authorities say a mid-Michigan woman faces possible felony charges after failing to tell a sex partner about her HIV-positive status.

Michigan State Police say the 54-year-old Rosebush woman will be arraigned Wednesday after knowingly putting a 45-year-old Traverse City man at risk.

Police tell WNEM-TV that six incidents happened in Isabella and Clare Counties between June 2009 and January 2010.

The woman remains held in the Isabella County Jail.

The offense is a four-year felony and carries a fine up to $5,000.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Two bills up for hearings on Wednesday would give same-sex partners and other unmarried couples more rights when one partner dies.

The House Civil Justice Committee will hear the proposals, both from Democrats.

The bill from Rep. Paul Thissen (TEE’-sen) of Minneapolis would give the surviving partner the right to access health records and consent to autopsies.

Another proposal from Rep. Steve Simon of St. Louis Park would let surviving partners have witness privileges and crime victim rights in wrongful death cases.

Currently these rights go only to a person’s surviving spouse or immediate family.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against the Rapid City Police Department, saying two officers were responsible for getting a lesbian Air Force sergeant tossed out of the military.

Police went to Jene Newsome’s Rapid City home last November to serve an out-of-state warrant on Cheryl Hutson, Newsome’s partner. The officers allegedly noticed an Iowa marriage certificate showing the two were married and notified Ellsworth Air Force Base, which later gave Newsome an honorable discharge.

The military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy bans service members from acknowledging they are gay or engaging in homosexual behavior.

Police Chief Steve Allender declined comment, other than to say that it is routine to notify the base of criminal matters involving military personnel.

Newsome had been in the military for nine years and said she planned to make it a career.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – The Washington Post says more than two dozen people have canceled their subscriptions over a photo of two men kissing that ran on the front page.

The photo was taken last Wednesday, the first day same-sex couples could apply for marriage licenses in Washington, and ran in the newspaper the next day.

The paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reports on his blog that 27 subscribers canceled their subscriptions, specifically citing the photo. He wrote that while complaints usually subside quickly, in this case complaints lasted through Tuesday.

Readers suggested the photo should have been placed in the paper’s Metro section or not run at all.

Alexander disagreed and defended the paper’s decision to run the photo prominently.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – The Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers.”

The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters’ message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the First Amendment. Members of a Kansas-based church have picketed many military funerals to spread their belief that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.