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Gay couple awarded $147K in Council Bluffs, Iowa discrimination suit
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A jury in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has awarded a gay couple $147,000 in their discrimination lawsuit.
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Russian parliament approves anti-gay bill, dozens of protesters detained
MOSCOW — A bill that stigmatizes Russia’s gay community and bans the distribution of information about homosexuality to children was overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of parliament Tuesday.
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‘The Out List’ – LGBT Americans share their personal, professional stories
A diverse cross-section of Americans share personal and professional stories, both heart-wrenching and triumphant, of the LGBTQ experience in the upcoming HBO documentary, “The Out List.”
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Obama names openly gay State Dept. official to ambassador post
President Barack Obama on Monday named Daniel Baer — a former Georgetown professor and current Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor — to be ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), based in Vienna.
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Three gay men attacked in separate incidents in Columbus over past four days
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Three gay men have been attacked in Columbus over the last four days, and LGBT advocates are warning people to be extra cautious in a month that celebrates pride and openness.
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Lesbian earns Major General rank, becomes highest ranking out officer
U.S. Air Force Reserve Major General Patricia “Trish” Rose has became the U.S. military’s highest ranking openly gay officer.
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Gay man claims he was attacked, called gay slurs by homophobic NYPD cops
A gay man claims he was accused of public urination, called anti-gay slurs, violently attacked, and thrown against a squad car by a New York City police officer in an incident last week outside a Brooklyn precinct that was captured on video by the victim’s roommates.
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San Francisco Pride organizers confirm Bradley Manning won’t be honored
SAN FRANCISCO — Organizers of San Francisco’s annual gay pride celebration have confirmed that the U.S. soldier who has acknowledged providing classified documents to WikiLeaks will not be honored during this month’s celebration.
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Poll finds 58 percent of Calif. voters now support legalizing same-sex marriage
LOS ANGELES — While the U.S. Supreme Court prepares its decision on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, a new poll finds that a majority of California voters now support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.
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French Prime Minister orders extreme-right group dissolved after student’s murder
PARIS — French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Saturday directed Interior Minister Manuel Valls to take immediate steps to dissolve the extreme right group known as Revolutionary Nationalist Youth, believed to have neo-nazi ties.
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‘The Fosters’ brings TV a rare depiction of lesbian couple as heads of household
“The Fosters” is a study in unlikely bedfellows. The new ABC Family drama pairs mainstream star Jennifer Lopez and Peter Paige, who played bubbly Emmett in the cult favorite series “Queer as Folk,” as executive producers. It brings to television a rare depiction of a lesbian couple as heads of a household.
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More than 100,000 line D.C. streets for Capital Pride parade, festival
WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital celebrated the 38th annual “Capital Pride” this past week, culminating with a parade Saturday attended by over 100,000 spectators, lining the streets in the Dupont and Logan Circle neighborhoods of northwest Washington.
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Gay rights activists plan 2016 vote to repeal Mich. ban on same-sex marriage
LANSING, Mich. — With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan’s gay marriage ban, advocates say it’s not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state.
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‘Kinky Boots’ wins Best Musical, struts off with the most Tony Awards
NEW YORK — The feel-good musical “Kinky Boots,” with songs by pop star Cyndi Lauper, won the 2013 Tony Award for best musical.
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Iowa governor says he’ll try again to advance statewide anti-bullying effort
DES MOINES, Iowa — A bill designed to crack down on so-called cyber-bullying failed to advance in the Iowa state legislature this year, but Gov. Terry Branstad plans to keep working to toughen Iowa’s anti bullying laws.
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News (World)
Masked man disrupts French Open to protest legalization of same-sex marriage
PARIS — Protesters, upset by recent legislation in France allowing for same-sex marriages, disrupted the French Open tennis final on Sunday between Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer.
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‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Matilda the Musical’ front runners in tonight’s Tony Awards
NEW YORK — The Tony Awards will be a real drag this year: The two top musicals battling it out have leading men dressed as women and the night’s biggest celebrity will be Tom Hanks, who reminded everyone of his cross-dressing roots by teaming up in “Lucky Guy” with Peter Scolari, his “Bosom Buddies” co-star.
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Edmonton base first Canadian military installation to raise LGBT pride flag
EDMONTON, Alberta — In a ceremony attended by senior military officers and civilian members of the LGBT community, the rainbow pride flag was raised at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, and will remain this week to coincide with Edmonton’s LGBT Pride Festival.
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Prince Harry praised for preventing gay bashing attack on fellow British soldier
LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry is being praised on recently revealed news that that he intervened and prevented a planned attack on a gay soldier in 2008.
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Looking back 50 years: Huge strides for the gay rights movement
There was a time when homosexuality was deemed a mental disorder by the nation’s psychiatric authorities, and gay sex was a crime in every state but Illinois. Federal workers could be fired for the mere fact of being gay. That time wasn’t long ago — just 50 years…