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News (USA)
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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News (USA)
Va. Assembly to consider bill to ban conversion therapy on LGBT youth
RICHMOND, Va. — A bill that proposes to ban the use of controversial gay-to-straight conversion (or, reparative) therapy on LGBT youth in Virginia will go before the 2014 General Assembly.
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News (World)
Israel border officers in home custody after brutal attack on transgender woman
TEL AVIV, Israel — A group of 11 men have been remanded to home custody after allegedly attacking a transgender woman Saturday morning in Tel Aviv, reported the Daily Ha’aretz.
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News (USA)
Group wants to repeal Navajo Nation’s ban on same-sex marriage
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An effort to repeal the Navajo Nation’s same-sex marriage ban has been energized by court decisions in some states to allow such unions.
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Commentary
Time for HRC to put economic justice on the gay agenda
There’s been plenty of sucking up to the business community at the Human Rights Campaign, but little focus on money matters affecting low- and moderate-income LGBT people.Why can’t the HRC, the gay division of the Democratic Party, address such concerns? Is it’s because of the robust six-figure salaries of the top HRC executives? Do such compensation amounts cut off their awareness of gays who don’t make that kind of money? Or is it because the minimum wage increase doesn’t attract the attention of celebrities who appear at HRC dinners?
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News (USA)
Utah’s Weber State University extends benefits to same-sex couples
OGDEN, Utah — Weber State University says it will extend insurance benefits to spouses of employees in same-sex marriages.
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News (USA)
Report: Clay Aiken ‘actively considering’ run for U.S. House
Former “American Idol” finalist Clay Aiken is actively considering a bid to represent North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a report by the Washington Blade.
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News (USA)
Idaho governor, GOP lawmakers pledge to defend state’s gay marriage ban
BOISE, Idaho — Republicans pledged to defend Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage from a legal challenge, while Democrats favor letting similar cases elsewhere proceed rather than dedicating taxpayer resources to what they believe will be a losing battle.
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Life
Putin rescinds blanket ban on demonstrations at Sochi Olympics
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has rescinded a blanket ban on demonstrations in and around the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi.
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News (USA)
Utah man goes on hunger strike to demand end to same-sex marriages
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man is on a hunger strike, vowing to go without any food until the state stops allowing same-sex couples to marry.