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Transgender teen faces battery charge for defending herself from bullies
HERCULES, Calif. — A transgender teenager who says she has been repeatedly bullied by other students at a California high school is now facing a criminal charge for defending herself during a confrontation.
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Opponents of transgender rights law reach next step toward ballot referendum
SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of a new California law that spells out the rights of transgender students in public schools have cleared the next hurdle in their effort to repeal the law at the ballot box, state elections officials said Wednesday.
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LGBT groups to once again participate in annual Vietnamese Tet parade
WESTMINSTER, Calif. — Community members have voted to once again include gay and lesbian residents in Orange County’s annual Vietnamese new year’s parade.
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Calif. must count rejected petitions in challenge to transgender rights law
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge in Sacramento ordered the secretary of state’s office on Thursday to add about 5,000 signatures to the 614,326 submitted by supporters of a proposed voter referendum that seeks to overturn a new California law guaranteeing certain rights to transgender students in public schools.
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Rose Parade hosts its first same-sex wedding atop giant wedding cake float
PASADENA, Calif. — Standing atop a giant wedding cake float, Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair exchanged vows New Year’s Day in the first same-sex marriage during the Tournament of Roses Parade.
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Rose Parade will go on with gay wedding, despite San Diego woman’s boycott
PASADENA, Calif. — A San Diego woman calling for a boycott of the annual New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade, because two Los Angeles men will be married atop a float themed “Love is the Best Protection.”
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San Diego man recovering from brutal attack in city’s gay friendly neighborhood
SAN DIEGO — A San Diego gay man said he was attacked by three men yelling anti-gay slurs and wielding a baseball bat just after midnight Monday in the city’s historically diverse and gay-friendly Hillcrest neighborhood.
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Calif. schools prepare for transgender students rights law to take effect
SAN FRANCISCO — With a law that spells out the rights of transgender students in grades K-12 set to take effect in California, school districts are reviewing locker room layouts, scheduling sensitivity training for coaches, assessing who will sleep where during overnight field trips and reconsidering senior portrait dress codes.
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Calif. Methodist bishop offers job to Pa. pastor defrocked over gay son’s wedding
PHILADELPHIA — A United Methodist pastor from central Pennsylvania who was defrocked after officiating his son’s gay wedding was invited by a California Methodist bishop to serve in her region in yet another sign of a split in the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination.
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Group trying to overturn Calif. transgender students’ rights law files suit
Groups trying to overturn a new California law allowing transgender students to choose public school restrooms and sports teams that correspond with their expressed genders have filed a lawsuit claiming state officials are unfairly refusing to count signatures seeking a referendum.