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University of Missouri-Kansas City offers Pride Scholarships to gay students
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some gay students who face financial trouble, often because of rejection from their families, are getting help from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Daughter of man arrested at husband’s bedside: Hospital statement is ‘absolute and utter bullshit’
LEES SUMMIT, Mo. — The daughter of a Missouri man who was arrested after refusing to leave the bedside of his spouse at a Kansas City hospital earlier this week, is speaking out, and has called the hospital’s statement of events “absolute and utter bullshit.”
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Missouri man arrested, handcuffed, banned from bedside of sick partner
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Missouri man has been arrested for refusing to leave the hospital bedside of his sick partner after a family member requested that he do so.
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Mo. Supreme Court hears case in denial of survivors’ benefits for gay partners
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the case that could allow same-sex partners of state employees to receive death benefits from the state’s pension system.
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Missouri school district to rescind prom policy that bans same-sex couples
SIKESTON, Mo. — An openly gay teen in the southeast Missouri town of Sikeston will be allowed to take his boyfriend to the prom, school district officials said Friday.
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SPLC demands Mo. school ends policy banning same-sex couples from prom
A school district in southeast Missouri is facing a threat of legal action over a policy that prohibits same-sex couples from attending prom together. The Southern Poverty Law Center on Thursday accused the Scott County Central School District in Sikeston, Mo., of discrimination and gave the district until Feb. 25 to revise the school dance policy or face a potential lawsuit.
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LGBT non-discrimination ordinance passes in St. Louis County
CLAYTON, Mo. – The St. Louis County Council chamber was filled to capacity on Tuesday as council members voted and passed an ordinance that would include sexual orientation and gender identity in St. Louis County’s non-discrimination protections in unincorporated St. Louis County.
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17-year-old Missouri teen pleads guilty to hate crime against lesbian
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A 17-year-old Missouri teen has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge in the July 24 beating of a local lesbian resident.
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St. Louis LGBT magazine receives HRC ‘Equality In Media’ award
ST. LOUIS, Mo — The Human Rights Campaign awarded The Vital Voice magazine its first ever “Equality In Media” award during the HRC’s “Homecoming: The 20th Anniversary St. Louis Human Rights Campaign Dinner Gala” on Sept. 22.
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Springfield, Mo., city council considers LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — An ordinance that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s non-discrimination ordinance generated three hours of vigorous public testimony in a public hearing August 13.