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Life
Grammy Awards: 34 couples to marry on-air during performance of ‘Same Love’
LOS ANGELES — Producers for Sunday’s Grammy Awards are hoping that the biggest show-stopper of the night will be the an on-air wedding of 34 couples — gay and straight — during a live performance by hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis of their Grammy-nominated song “Same Love.”
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News (USA)
NYPD investigating brutal beating of gay journalist as possible bias attack
NEW YORK — New York City police are investigating the beating of an openly gay journalist last week as a possible bias attack.
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News (USA)
Kan. lawmakers to consider bill allowing discrimination based on religious beliefs
TOPEKA, Kan. — With the legal climate uncertain for states banning gay marriage, Kansas lawmakers are considering a proposal designed to allow individuals, groups and businesses to refuse to recognize or provide goods, services or benefits to gay couples based on their religious beliefs.
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News (USA)
Nevada AG re-evaluates defense of state’s same-sex marriage ban
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says she’s re-evaluating the state’s defense of its ban on same-sex marriage after a new ruling by a federal appeals court.
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Life
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis warm up for Sunday night’s Grammy Awards
LOS ANGELES — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were a little-known rap duo from Seattle with an album that sold beyond modest expectations a year ago. As 2014 opens, Macklemore and Lewis are the focal point of the Grammy Awards — and few are more surprised than them.
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News (USA)
Okla. lawmaker suggests eliminating all marriages to prevent gay marriages
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — An Oklahoma lawmaker, fearful that a federal judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage might be upheld by an appeals court, says his conservative colleagues would consider throwing out all marriages in Oklahoma as a way around the ruling.
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Commentary
LGBT youth must be allowed to grow into authentic adults they’re meant to be
Coming of age in the most supportive of environments can be a grueling process for any adolescent; coming to terms with one’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression in a state that allows so-called therapists to try to change who they are can be devastating. Minors do not have full, legal control over their healthcare and legislation is needed to protect them from being subjected to quackery judgments that they’re anything but normal. The damaging practice of trying to change LGBT minors and deny them of their authentic identities needs to stop…
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News (USA)
Man charged in making death threats to gay mayor, socialist council member
SEATTLE — A 32-year-old Seattle man accused of posting threats on Facebook against Seattle’s openly gay mayor and a socialist City Council member has been charged with malicious harassment, felony harassment and two counts of cyberstalking.
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Life
Dutch brass band may play ‘YMCA’ at Sochi to show its support for gay rights
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch brass band that always performs at Olympic speed skating ovals is considering playing a popular gay song — “Y.M.C.A.” — at the Sochi Winter Olympics to show its support for gay rights.
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News (USA)
Ind. House Democrats weigh two plans to derail proposed gay marriage ban
INDIANAPOLIS — House Democrats will consider two different strategies to derail the effort to place a same-sex marriage ban in the Indiana Constitution, House Minority Leader Scott Pelath said Friday.