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UConn women take lead role in campaign to support lesbian, bisexual athletes
HARTFORD, Conn. — Members of Connecticut’s NCAA champion women’s basketball team are taking a lead role in a national campaign in support of lesbian and bisexual athletes in women’s sports.
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New website features legal info for LGBT, HIV+ youth in New England
BOSTON — A Boston-based LGBT legal rights advocacy group has set up a new website to provide helpful information to young people in New England about their legal rights in school, sports, work and the juvenile justice system.
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Bill to restore benefits for discharged gay veterans heads to Conn. governor
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut bill that would restore state benefits to gay and lesbian veterans discharged under the U.S. military’s former “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is moving to the governor’s desk.
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Conn. lawmakers seek to restore state benefits to discharged gay veterans
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut lawmakers are seeking to restore state benefits to gay and lesbian veterans discharged under the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. On Wednesday, the Senate voted 34-0 in favor of legislation making veterans eligible for state benefits if they’ve been denied federal benefits solely because of their sexual orientation. The […]
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Conn. school, under pressure, approves student to wear anti-gay shirt
WOLCOTT, Conn. — Officials in a Connecticut school district have backed down in a fight over free speech rights, allowing a student to wear a T-shirt bearing an anti-gay message.
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Connecticut governor nominates openly gay lawmaker to state Supreme Court
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Thursday nominated State Sen. Andrew J. McDonald to the state’s Supreme Court. If confirmed by the legislature, he would become the first openly gay justice of the state Supreme Court.
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A gay dad reflects on the terrorism in Newtown, Connecticut
The fact is that 20 sets of parents got the call I most fear, and that without warning the precious looks, kisses, hugs, innocent conversations and happiness that are my heart and soul treasures can abruptly end and be removed, forever. This event was terrorism because so many of us feel the searing pain of the poor families who are facing the reality of their loss. I wish to my soul that I could spare them the pain they feel, I wish it more than any other thing this Christmas, and take little solace in the fact that I get to hug my boys and take them in my arms still.
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James Dobson: Connecticut shooting is God’s wrath for gay marriage, abortion
James Dobson dedicated his radio program this morning to discussing Friday’s tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, which he attributed to the fact that God has “allowed judgment to fall upon us” because the nation has turned its back on him by accepting things like abortion and gay marriage.
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Westboro Baptist Church says it will picket at Sandy Hook funerals
The Westboro Baptist Church, home of anti-gay extremists and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, announced via Twitter on Sunday plans to picket at the scene of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.
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Inexplicable Evil
Unspeakable tragedy, horrific crime, inexplicable — all words that inadequately describe the evil that was visited on a small New England town and its most vulnerable citizens Friday, its children. … My heart breaks for those families, who at what now should be a season of joy for them, have been forever marred by the violence visited upon them.