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N.Y. man attacked in anti-gay hate crime while visiting family in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A New York man visiting family in Ohio was attacked late Saturday night outside a popular Cleveland gay bar in what police are calling an anti-gay hate crime.
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Grant County will be 7th N.M. county to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
SILVER CITY, N.M. – The legal fight over gay marriage in New Mexico broadened Tuesday as a seventh county announced plans to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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N.M. county clerk defies court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
SANTA FE, N.M. — The Los Alamos County clerk says she won’t issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and will go to court to defend her decision.
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Texas, Mississippi National Guard refuse to process same-sex couples’ benefits
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas National Guard is refusing to process requests for benefits submitted by same-sex couples because of the state constitution’s definition of marriage.
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Judge sides with Ohio couple; orders gay man listed as married on death certificate
A recently deceased gay Ohio man must be listed on his death certificate as married and his husband must be listed as his spouse despite Ohio’s gay marriage ban, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.
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South Africa to consider legislation to criminalize anti-LGBT hate crimes
PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa is planning to introduce hate crime legislation, which would include laws to prosecute physical and verbal attacks on foreigners and LGBT people.
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Bakery that refused wedding cake for lesbian couple closes its doors
GRESHAM, Ore. — The Oregon bakery that is the target of a discrimination complaint for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding, has closed its doors.
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Same-sex couples accounted for 1 in 3 marriage licenses in Minn. in August
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Same-sex couples received nearly 1 in 3 marriage licenses issued in Minnesota since they were allowed to wed, The Associated Press found in a statewide survey of the first month’s impact of the new marriage equality law.
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Australian Prime Minister defends same-sex marriage
BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, appearing Monday on an Australian national political program “Questions & Answers,” defended his support for marriage equality in a spirited exchange in which he went toe-to-toe with a local pastor on the Biblical definition of marriage.
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Obama to meet with human rights, LGBT activists while in Russia
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with several LGBT and human rights activists during his trip to Russia for the G20 conference, a White House source confirmed Monday.