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New York names Queens street after pioneering gay rights family
NEW YORK — A street in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens has been named in honor of the founder of PFLAG and her family. Officials have formally designated 171st Street between 33rd and 35th Avenues as “Jeanne, Jules, Morty Manford PFLAG Way.”
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Advocates say NYC municipal ID card would help transgender residents
NEW YORK — Backers of a proposed New York City municipal ID card said Wednesday that transgender people, immigrants, non-drivers and others will benefit from the city-issued identification card.
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Hasidic ‘neighborhood watch’ members indicted in gang assault on gay man
NEW YORK — Five men who prosecutors said were members with a Hasidic neighborhood watch group in Brooklyn were indicted on Wednesday in connection with a brutal beating of a gay black man in December.
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Brooklyn bar owner fights landlord who forbids him from operating a gay bar
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn bar owner says he has been battling his landlord for more than a year to turn his establishment into a gay bar, but that his lease specifically prohibits a gay bar from operating on the premises.
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St. Patrick’s Day parades proceed amid tension over exclusion of gays
NEW YORK — A weekend of St. Patrick’s Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebrations was culminating Monday in New York, where Guinness beer and the city’s new mayor planned to sit out the world’s largest parade celebrating Irish heritage.
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Guinness cancels sponsorship of NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade over gay ban
NEW YORK — Guinness announced Sunday it is cancelling its sponsorship of Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City because event organizers refuse to allow gay participants to carry signs expressing their LGBT pride.
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Historic Stonewall Inn to drop Guinness beer over NYC parade sponsorship
NEW YORK — New York’s historic Stonewall Inn, site of the Stonewall riots of 1969 which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the modern gay rights movement, will drop Guinness beer from its shelves on Monday following the beer company’s decision to stand by its sponsorship of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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Heineken pulls sponsorship from NYC St. Patrick’s over ban on gay pride signs
Heineken announced Friday it has pulled its sponsorship of Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City because event organizers refuse to let gay participants carry signs displaying LGBT pride.
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Barilla (‘gays can go an eat another brand’) Pasta launches NYC restaurant
NEW YORK — Barilla pasta, whose chairman came under fire last year when he said gay “can go an eat another brand” of pasta because his family-friendly company would never feature a same-sex couple in its advertising, has opened a new restaurant in New York.
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Victims in NYC subway hate crime say no one came to their assistance
NEW YORK — The victims of an alleged anti-gay hate crime on a Manhattan subway platform over the weekend are speaking out, and say they are disappointed that none of the more than 50 people nearby called police or came to their assistance.