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Group trying to overturn Calif. transgender students’ rights law files suit
Groups trying to overturn a new California law allowing transgender students to choose public school restrooms and sports teams that correspond with their expressed genders have filed a lawsuit claiming state officials are unfairly refusing to count signatures seeking a referendum.
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Calif. man convicted of orchestrating gang rape targeting lesbian victim
MARTINEZ, Calif. — A 36-year-old Northern California man was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating the gang rape of a woman who was targeted in part because she is a lesbian.
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Calif. city approves Vietnamese parade despite exclusion of gay residents
WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A Southern California city granted a private group a permit Wednesday night to hold a Vietnamese new year’s parade, despite objections over its exclusion of the community’s gay and lesbian residents.
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L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center systems compromised by cyber-thieves
LOS ANGELES — The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center said Tuesday it was recently the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack that, according to data security and technology experts, was designed to collect credit card, social security numbers and other financial information.
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Gay rights activists challenge exclusion from Vietnamese parade
WESTMINSTER, Calif. — Gay rights activists are stepping up pressure on the organizers of a Vietnamese new year parade in Orange County to allow them to march.
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Lesbian victim testifies in trial of man accused in alleged 2008 gang rape
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Five years after a Northern California woman said she was gang-raped while her attackers taunted her for being a lesbian, the trial of one of the four men charged in the assault has gotten underway in a Contra Costa County courtroom where the 33-year-old victim is testifying.
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Effort to repeal Calif. transgender student rights law may not qualify for ballot
SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of a new California transgender students rights law, who claimed earlier this month they had collected enough signatures to force a ballot initiative aimed at repealing the law, may not qualify to put the issue before voters after all.
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Calif. sees record increase in marriages following gay marriage ruling
SAN FRANCISCO — More California couples tied the knot in July following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling allowing same-sex marriages in the state than in any other month since 2006, according to new data.
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Officials: Brawl between bullies, transgender student possible hate crime
HERCULES, Calif. — A transgender student at a California high school said she was assaulted by three other girls in a transphobic attack captured on cell phone video.
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Opponents of Calif. transgender law say they will qualify for ballot initiative
SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of a new California law that gives transgender students certain rights said Sunday that they had collected enough signatures for an initiative that would repeal the law.