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New York City considers easing birth certificate gender changes
NEW YORK — Transgender New Yorkers on Monday called for the passage of city legislation that would eliminate a requirement that they have gender-reassignment surgery to change their designated gender on their birth certificates.
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Three charged in anti-gay attack, shooting in Brooklyn
NEW YORK — Three suspects have been charged in connection with what police are calling an anti-gay attack in Brooklyn that left a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound. According to police, the victim was dressed as a woman and walking down the street with two other men in the Bushwick neighborhood early Saturday morning, when the three…
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Catholic League bowing out of NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade
NEW YORK — The Catholic League says it will sit out next year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York because parade organizers aren’t letting an anti-abortion group march. Bill Donohue heads the Catholic League, a group that fights prejudice against the church. He said Thursday that his organization won’t participate in the March 2015 parade for the first time in 20 years.
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Gay rights activists seek inclusion in NYC St. Patrick’s Parade
NEW YORK — Gay activists who have been pushing to join New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade since the 1990s called on organizers Tuesday to include them, not just a group for gay NBC employees. Members of a group called Irish Queers held a news conference to announce that they were applying for a spot in the 2015 event, the nation’s biggest and oldest …
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New York City reports three cases of meningitis in HIV-positive gay men
NEW YORK — New York City’s Health Department says it’s investigating three cases of meningitis that have developed in HIV-positive gay men over the last two weeks. The department says Friday it’s recommending meningitis vaccinations for all men who regularly have intimate contact with other men. It says men with HIV are at a greater risk of acquiring meningitis.
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N.Y. Catholic Cardinal to lead St. Patrick’s Day parade with 1st gay group
NEW YORK — There is no more natural spot for Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan — a proud, ebullient Irish-American — than grand marshal of the city’s historic St. Patrick’s Day Parade. But the honor now has an added significance: Parade organizers said Wednesday they will allow the first gay group to march under its own banner. Dolan was quick to issue a statement…
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Gay rights groups scoff at NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade decision
NEW YORK — A decision by organizers of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade to allow one gay organization to march is a disappointment after decades of fighting by gay groups for full participation, several advocates said Wednesday. Some were dismayed that the organizers had chosen just one lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group to participate next year after ending a ban …
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NYC mayor Bill de Blasio praises St. Patrick’s Day Parade decision
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio has praised the decision to allow a gay contingent to march under its own banner for the first time at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. But he has not made a commitment to marching in the parade himself. De Blasio said Wednesday that he’ll need to know more before deciding what he’ll be doing six months from now.
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First ever gay group to march openly in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
NEW YORK — A gay group will march under its own banner for the first time in the world’s largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade, organizers said Wednesday. The prohibition on identified gay groups in the centuries-old New York parade had made participation a political issue. Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to march this year, and Guinness beer dropped its sponsorship.
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Joan Rivers officiates gay couple’s wedding at NY book signing
Comedian and author Joan Rivers on Monday officiated an impromptu wedding of a same-sex on at a book signing in New York City. Rivers, 81, was taking questions from her fans when Jed Ryan and Joe Aiello, a couple of three years, raised their hands and ask if the comic – who is an ordained minister capable of officiating weddings – would marry them …