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Lawmakers in Minn., N.Y., introduce bills to ban conversion therapy for minors
Lawmakers in Minnesota and New York have introduced legislation to prohibit the use of controversial gay-to-straight conversion therapy on LGBT youth.
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U.S. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney to marry long-time partner
WASHINGTON — Freshman U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney plans to marry his long-time partner, who proposed over Christmas.
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Recently married gay man dies after trying to escape NYC high-rise fire
NEW YORK — A New York man died and his newlywed husband was critically injured after trying to escape a fire that erupted in their high-rise Manhattan apartment building Sunday morning.
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Police investigate alleged anti-gay attack on Brooklyn man by Hasidic Jewish men
NEW YORK — Police are investigating the assault on a gay man who alleges he was attacked by a gang of Hasidic Jewish men who shouted anti-gay slurs at him while he was walking home in Brooklyn.
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Spike in hate crimes prompts N.Y. comptroller to audit reporting
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York comptroller’s office announced Friday that it will audit hate crime reporting statewide after a legislator earlier this year cited an apparent spike in such crimes.
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Attorney: Transgender murder victim’s life not as valuable as higher class victims
NEW YORK — A New York attorney on Thursday said the life of a murdered transgender woman wasn’t worth the same punishment as if his client had killed someone “in the higher end of the community.”
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N.Y. pushes Sochi Games advertisers to speak out in support of LGBT rights
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and New York City Comptroller John Liu are pressuring Olympic advertisers to speak out against Russia’s restrictions on gay and transgender rights before the Sochi Winter Games begin in February.
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Suspect in fatal attack on transgender woman released
NEW YORK — Prosecutors in New York on Tuesday dismissed a misdemeanor assault charge against a Harlem man who had been arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a transgendered woman in Harlem.
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Orlando Cruz, first openly gay professional boxer, marries partner
NEW YORK — Openly gay professional boxer Orlando Cruz married his partner, José Manuel Colón, in a ceremony in New York’s Central Park on Saturday.
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West Point in N.Y. hosts first same-sex wedding between two men
WEST POINT, N.Y. — TTwo West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy’s first wedding between two men.