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Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah fined $50,000 for shouting homophobic slur
Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah on Monday was fined $50,000 by the NBA for shouting a gay slur at a fan on Sunday night.
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Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah latest to hurl ‘faggot’ slur from the bench
Joakim Noah of the Chicago Bulls was caught on video Sunday night using what appears to be a familiar gay slur.
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Activists give Maggie Gallagher bigotry award; promises a pie, à la Anita Bryant
At a Congressional hearing on “Defending Marriage” on Friday, LGBT activist group GetEQUAL caught up with Maggie Gallagher, the anti-gay marriage board chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, and presented her with the “First Annual Anita Bryant Award for Unbridled and Unparalleled Bigotry.”
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City council candidate’s yard signs defaced with anti-gay slurs
A candidate for city council in Miami Shores, Fla., this weekend discovered several campaign yard signs had been defaced with anti-gay epithets.
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Suspect arrested in killing of two Miami men he thought were gay
Miami police have arrested a man in the shooting deaths of two men that he thought were gay and coming onto him.
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Suspect arrested in homicide of Florida gay couple
A suspect is in custody in the double homicide of a gay couple found slain in their Wilton Manors, Fla., home over the weekend. Peter Serge Avsenew, 26, was arrested miles away from where police believe he murdered Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Adams. According to police, Avsenew lives in Hollywood, Fla., where the victims […]
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South Florida gay couple victims of double homicide
Police in Wilton Manors, Fla., have identified two men who they believe are the victims of a double murder that occurred over the weekend. Stephen Adams, 52, and Kevin Powell, 47, were found dead inside their home on Sunday night. The two men were domestic partners.
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Florida ban on gay adoptions ends as Attorney General declines to appeal
Bringing an end to Florida’s 33-year-old ban on gay adoptions, state attorney general Bill McCollum announced Friday that he will not appeal to the state supreme court a lower court ruling that the ban was unconstitutional.
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Florida child welfare agency will not appeal ruling to allow gay adoptions
Florida will cease to enforce its ban gay adoptions, as the Department of Children and Families announced Tuesday that it would not appeal the September decision by the Third District Court of Appeals that the ban was unconstitutional.
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Appeals court upholds ruling: Florida’s ban on gay adoption ‘unconstitutional’
A court ruling declaring Florida’s ban against gay adoption unconstitutional was upheld Wednesday in a decision by the Third District Court of Appeals in Miami, affirming the controversial adoption of two foster children by a gay Miami couple. The Miami Herald reports: The unanimous 3-0 decision deals a critical blow to Florida’s 33-year-old law banning […]