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PlanetOut Corp., which creates online forums for the gay and lesbian community, closed a $3 million funding deal with Sequoia Capital and America Online Inc.'s Greenhouse program. The minority share nvestments will go to staffing and marketing needs of the new PlanetOut service, which debuted yesterday on the Web at http://www.planetout.com and Tuesday on AOL (keyword: Planetout). Netscape Communications Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and other Silicon Valley-based firms contributed an undisclosed amount to PlanetOut.