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Charity: giving is the new getting. These charity gift items help you keep the holiday spirit by giving back, with something to wrap up.


Human Rights Campaign The gay rights organization offers the Stripe Equality Cloche Hat The cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s.[1] (Cloche is the French word for bell.) Cloche hats were usually made of felt so that they conformed to the head.  ($14.95), a snappy Snappy - Snappy Video Snapshot  toque to help ward off winter's chill. It just wouldn't be a holiday season without a Christopher Radko ornament ornament, in architecture
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, and this year HRC HRC Human Rights Campaign
HRC Human Rights Council (UN)
HRC Human Rights Commission
HRC Hard Rock Cafe
HRC Hillary Rodham Clinton (democratic senator/presidential candidate; former first lady) 
 offers the gay artist's "Three Pennie" design ($38). (www.hrc.org)

AmfAR Illustrator Mary Engelbreit's beautiful "Untie the Ribbons" poster (18 by 24 inches, $50) brightens up any room and raises funds for AIDS research. The poster was created for Gift for Life, an organization of professionals from the gift, tabletop, stationery, and decorative accessories industries who raise awareness and support for AIDS research. (www.giftforlife.org)

YouthAIDS Michael Stars has designed a new "Grow Awareness" shirt (T-shirt $26, tank top $24), donating $10 from the sale of every shirt to YouthAIDS, an organization dedicated to AIDS prevention and education. (www.michaelstars.com)

Freedom Is Not Free Dedicated to helping the thousands of men and women who have been injured In the war--gay and lesbian service members among them--this nonpartisan nonprofit group offers the scorchingly sexy American Heroes 2007 Calendar ($14.99), featuring a dozen very hunky hun·ky 1  
n. pl. hun·kies Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a laborer, from east-central Europe.
 marines. (www.freedomisnotfree.com)

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Delight the theater-lover in your life with Broadway Cares's exclusive hand-painted Times Square Ornament ($20), which features the excitement of one of the world's biggest New Year's parties. The AIDS fund-raising organization also offers the Broadway Bares 16: New York Strip Noun 1. New York strip - steak from upper part of the short loin
strip steak

beefsteak - a beef steak usually cooked by broiling
 calendar ($20) featuring denizens of the Great White Way wearing very little. (www.broadwaycares.org)
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Author:Duralde, Alonso
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Nov 21, 2006
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