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News (USA)
U.S. Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality to bolster gay pride events
SAN FRANCISCO — Cities across the nation were gearing up Sunday for what were expected to be especially well-attended and exuberant gay pride parades following the U.S. Supreme Court decisions restoring same-sex marriages to California and granting gay couples the federal benefits of marriage they were previously denied.
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News (World)
Australian prime minister endorses gay marriage, suggests national vote
In his first press conference since ousting Julia Gillard as Prime Minister and leader of the Labor Party, newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said this week he was “the first Prime Minister of Australia to be a full signed up supporter of marriage equality.”
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Life
Bert & Ernie celebrate Supreme Court rulings on New Yorker magazine cover
The upcoming issue of The New Yorker gives a nod to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality, with an unlikely pair gracing its cover — Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie.
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News (USA)
Two Ga. men sentenced to 10 years in hate crime attack on gay man
ATLANTA — Two men have been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for their involvement in a hate crime against a gay man in Atlanta.
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News (USA)
Gay couples line up to marry in Calif., while opponents seek to halt weddings
SAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of couples in jeans, shorts, white dresses and the occasional military uniform filled San Francisco City Hall on Saturday as clerks resumed issuing marriage licenses one day after a federal appeals court removed the last obstacle to making same-sex matrimony legal again in California.
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News (USA)
Gay marriage opponents ask Supreme Court to stop Calif. weddings
SAN FRANCISCO — Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state’s gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and stop the weddings.
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News (USA)
Judge combines lawsuits against florist who refused flowers for gay wedding
A judge in Washington state on Friday consolidated two lawsuits, one filed by the state attorney general and the other filed by a gay couple, in a dispute over a florist who declined to provide flowers for the couple’s wedding because of her “relationship with Jesus Christ.”
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Life
Colo. pastor links gay kiss, women wearing hats to God’s wrath through forest fires
Last week on Generations Radio, Colorado pastors Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner addressed the forest fires hitting their state. They wondered why God was punishing Colorado with the fires, and specifically targeting the heavily conservative city of Colorado Springs.
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Life
UK’s David Cameron backs marriage equality in LGBT Pride message
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron has reaffirmed his support for same-sex marriage in a message to mark gay and lesbian Pride Day.
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Commentary
DOMA is dead – but the haters live on
I don’t believe I understood how much I was holding inside of me, until I no longer had to hold on to it any longer. When Pete Williams of MSNBC announced that DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, was dead, I broke into tears. Not just a few tears – I couldn’t stop them from coming. It was in that moment that I realized that in the eyes of my government, I am no longer a second class citizen.
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News (USA)
After years of legal battles, gay marriages resume in Calif. with a flurry
SAN FRANCISCO — Same-sex marriages that were outlawed in California 4 1/2 years ago resumed in a rush after a federal appeals court took the “unusual, but not unprecedented,” step of freeing couples to obtain marriage licenses, before the U.S. Supreme Court had issued its final judgment in a challenge of the state’s voter-approved gay marriage ban.
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News (World)
Dozens arrested at ‘unauthorized’ gay pride rally in Russia
MOSCOW — Russian police have arrested several gay rights activists and Russian nationalists who confronted them at a rally declared illegal under a new law against “gay propaganda.”
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Life
Remembering Stonewall: Why LGBT pride can now be celebrated openly
NEW YORK — Forty-four years ago tonight, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, uniformed and plain-clothed New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular Greenwich Village gay bar on Christopher Street.
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Life
PHOTOS: L.A. mayor officiates wedding of co-plaintiffs in Calif. gay marriage case
LOS ANGELES — For the first time in over four years, a same-sex couple has tied the knot in Los Angeles. Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, two plaintiffs who successfully challenged Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court, were married Friday evening by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at City Hall.
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Life
PHOTOS: Calif. Attorney General presides over wedding of Prop 8 plaintiffs
SAN FRANCISCO — Kris Perry and Sandy Steir, lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
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Life
BREAKING: Plaintiffs in Calif. marriage case marry in San Francisco, L.A.
SAN FRANCISCO — The lead plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall on Friday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
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News (USA)
Losers in Prop 8 case call restart of same-sex marriages a ‘disgrace’
SAN FRANCISCO — Sponsors of California’s same-sex marriage ban say a federal appeals court decision that clears the way for gay weddings to resume is “disgraceful.”
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Life
BREAKING: Prop 8 plaintiffs prepare to marry moments after ban is lifted
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the state of California to immediately resume issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a 4 1/2-year freeze.
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News (USA)
BREAKING: U.S. appeals court in Calif. lifts hold on same-sex marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the state of California to immediately resume issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a 4 1/2-year freeze.
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Life
Dominican religious groups reject gay U.S. ambassador nominee
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Religious groups in the Dominican Republic said Friday they are outraged by the nomination of a gay U.S. ambassador to the conservative Caribbean country.