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Longtime AIDS activist takes up a new fight: defending the FDA
WASHINGTON — As an AIDS activist in the early 1990s, Gregg Gonsalves traveled to Washington to challenge the Food and Drug Administration. Gonsalves was part of the confrontational group Act Up, which staged protests outside the FDA’s headquarters, disrupted its public meetings and pressured its leaders into speeding up the approval of experimental drugs for patients …
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Storme DeLarverie, lesbian activist who took part in Stonewall riots, dies at 93
NEW YORK — Storme DeLarverie, a lesbian activist who took part in the New York Stonewall riots in 1969 that si widely credited as the start of the gay rights movement in the United States, has died. She was 93.
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Californians, gay rights advocates worldwide remember Harvey Milk
Today is “Harvey Milk Day,” a day of honor for the slain gay rights activist, which is officially recognized by the State of California and celebrated by gay rights advocates worldwide.
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Prominent Ugandan gay rights activist asks for U.S. asylum
BOSTON — Fearing prison or even death, an openly gay activist from Uganda is seeking asylum in the United States since his home country toughened criminal punishment against gays.
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Idaho’s ‘Add the Words’ gay rights activists promised pro-bono legal help
BOISE, Idaho — Long before their arrests, activists seeking to add discrimination protections for gays and lesbians to Idaho’s Human Rights Act added lawyers: The 44 people facing misdemeanor trespass charges after Monday’s demonstration inside the Capitol’s Senate chambers have been promised pro-bono help.
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Activists target Sochi with social media, boycotts in protest of Russia anti-gay law
NEW YORK — Despite seven months of international outcry, Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activity remains in place. Yet the eclectic protest campaign has heartened activists in Russia and caught the attention of its targets — including organizers and sponsors of the Sochi Olympics that open on Feb. 7.
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War Stories: Booed gay soldier chronicles life in the closet to gay rights activist
When Stephen Snyder-Hill and his U.S. Army unit were taking fire during the 1991 war in Iraq, the then-18-year-old private glanced down at a picture he carried of his brother with a girlfriend. “I decided if I died that day, I would never have loved somebody,” he said.
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Gay rights activist Michelangelo Signorile working on new book
NEW YORK — Michelangelo Signorile, the activist, SiriusXM host and popular author, sees many battles ahead for gay rights.
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Gay rights activists plan protest outside NYSE in response to ‘Russia Day’
NEW YORK — In the latest in a series of ongoing, high-profile demonstrations against the Russian government’s anti-gay laws, activist group Queer Nation will protest outside the New York Stock Exchange Monday while Russian government officials at the Exchange ring the closing bell.
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Foes of Russia’s anti-gay ‘propaganda’ law ponder new tactics
NEW YORK — The four-month campaign protesting Russia’s ban on “gay propaganda” is entering a new phase, as human rights activists try to heighten pressure on the Olympics’ top corporate sponsors to speak out before the Winter Games in Sochi.