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LGBT groups shut out from joining in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade
BOSTON — Organizers of the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade that takes place in South Boston have rejected applications submitted by two LGBT advocacy groups to participate in Sunday’s parade.
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Obama ‘does not support’ North Carolina anti-gay marriage initiative
President Obama “does not support” an upcoming measure on the ballot in North Carolina that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage and marriage-like unions, according to a statement issued by his campaign.
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Jury finds Dharun Ravi guilty of hate crime against Tyler Clementi
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A jury in New Jersey has found Rutgers student Dharun Ravi guilty of a hate crime against his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, for using a web cam to spy on Clementi’s intimate encounters with another man.
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Two gay men beaten with baseball bats in Dallas hate crime
DALLAS — Two gay men were the victims of a brutal early morning attack on Tuesday and were beaten with baseball bats in what Dallas police are classifying as a hate crime.
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Maryland gay marriage opponents launch ballot referendum petition drive
BALTIMORE, Md. — Opponents to the Maryland law signed by Governor Martin O’Malley last month that would give same-sex couples the right to marry, have officially begun their effort to overturn the law.
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Two gay men, one transgender woman injured in DC anti-LGBT attacks
WASHINGTON — One gay man has been shot, and another gay man and a transgender woman were badly beaten in two separate attacks earlier this week in the Columbia Heights neighbood in central D.C.
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LGBT group plans legal challenge to anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ initiative
DENVER — Statewide LGBT advocacy organization One Colorado is planning a legal challenge to a broadly-written ballot proposal by conservative religious liberty group that could undermine state law protecting LGBT people from discrimination.
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U.S. Senate confirms gay nominee to California federal court
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed to the bench a gay judicial nominee whom Republicans had held up for four months from receiving a floor vote along with other appointees.
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Washington gay marriage opponents launch drive to overturn law
Opponents of same-sex marriage began collecting signatures in Washington state on Wednesday in hopes of blocking the state’s new marriage equality law before it can go into effect this summer, just one day after a Superior Court judge cleared the way for opponents to begin the petition drive.
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Principal who invited anti-gay Christian band to school assembly resigns
DUNKERTON, Iowa — The high school principal who allowed the Christian rock band Junkyard Prophet to espouse anti-gay, anti-abortion views at a student assembly last week, is resigning, according to school district officials.