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Wal-Mart accused of same-sex bias in class-action lawsuit
Jacqueline Cote says Wal-Mart repeatedly denied medical insurance for her wife before 2014, when the retail giant started offering benefits for same-sex spouses.
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Gay cadets become first same-sex couple to join Boston police force
Among the 64 recruits who graduated from the Boston Police Academy on Wednesday were two openly gay cadets, believed to be the first openly gay couple to ever graduate from a police academy together.
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Boston mayor creates gender‑neutral restrooms at city hall
Boston is among the first cities in New England to institute gender-neutral restrooms in their city halls, says Mayor Martin Walsh.
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Historic first: Gay groups march in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade
Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade made history Sunday as two gay and lesbian groups marched after decades of opposition that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Second gay rights group to march in Boston St. Patrick’s parade
This is the first year that parade organizers have allowed groups representing the gay community to participate in the parade, which draws as many as a million spectators to South Boston.
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First time in history: Gay veterans to march in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade
The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which has long resisted the inclusion of gay groups, voted Monday night to allow the group OutVets to march in the 2015 parade.
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Gay, transgender veterans march for the first time in Boston Veterans Day parade
BOSTON — Massachusetts marked Veterans Day on Tuesday with commemorations around the state, including a parade in Boston in which gay and transgender veterans were allowed to march for the first time. OutVets, a recently-formed group representing LGBT military veterans, had about 20 marchers in Tuesday afternoon’s parade …
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Gay veterans group to march in Boston parade for the first time
Boston’s annual Veterans Day parade will include a group representing LGBT military veterans for the first time. OutVets, a recently-formed nonpartisan and nonpolitical group based in Boston, expects between 10 to 30 people to march Tuesday in matching polo shirts and baseball caps. The downtown parade covers Boston Common and…
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Gay rights group to protest Gordon College ban on ‘homosexual behavior’
BOSTON — Gay rights advocates will be rallying during Gordon College’s homecoming to call on the college to eliminate its ban against “homosexual behavior.” OneGordon, an association of gay alumni, students and staff, will protest on the campus quad Saturday while homecoming events are taking place.
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St. Patrick’s Day parades proceed amid tension over exclusion of gays
NEW YORK — A weekend of St. Patrick’s Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebrations was culminating Monday in New York, where Guinness beer and the city’s new mayor planned to sit out the world’s largest parade celebrating Irish heritage.