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Church kicks out family for supporting lesbian daughter in benefits fight
COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. — A Tennessee church has banned an entire family from its congregation after they supported their lesbian daughter while she fought for same-sex partner benefits from the town where she worked as a police detective.
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Another setback for NOM: Iowa ethics board to keep executive in investigation
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board voted Wednesday not to remove its executive director from an investigation into whether the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) violated state law by not disclosing campaign donors.
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Pa. court outlines issues for hearing on marriage licenses for same-sex couples
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania court laid out the issues Thursday to be argued at a hearing in two weeks about a suburban Philadelphia court clerk’s decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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N.M. governor repeats call for vote to ban same-sex marriage
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is reacting to a county clerk’s office’s issuing of marriage licenses to dozens of same-sex couples by repeating her call for a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
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Sexual minorities march in Nepal to demand equal rights
KATMANDU, Nepal — About 1,000 gays, lesbians, transgender people and their supporters, many dressed in colorful clothes and holding banners, marched through Nepal’s capital on Thursday to celebrate and demand rights for their community, in what has become an annual festival.
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Russia defends anti-gay law in letter to Olympic committee
LONDON — The Russian government assured the International Olympic Committee on Thursday it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay “propaganda” that has provoked an international backlash.
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Transgender woman who appeared in online reality series found murdered
FONTANA, Calif. — A transgender woman was found murdered in her Southern California apartment on Tuesday, with evidence of a violent struggle.
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With less than 18 months to live, N.M. woman wants to marry partner of 21 years
SANTA FE, N.M. — Attorneys for a same-sex couple in Santa Fe on Wednesday filed an emergency request asking the Second Judicial District Court to allow them to legally marry because one of the women suffers from a severe medical condition that may prove fatal in the immediate future.
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President Obama honors Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin
The chief strategist for the 1963 March on Washington was gay in an era when same-sex relations were widely reviled in American society.
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Attorney General will not challenge N.M. county’s same-sex marriages
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he will not challenge a move by a Dona Ana County clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses.