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Judge rejects motion by Catholic school that fired transgender teacher
NEW YORK — A judge in New York on Monday refused to dismiss a complaint by a former teacher at a Catholic school was fired after notifying school officials that he was transitioning from male to female.
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NYC mayoral hopefuls begin final campaign sprint to Tuesday’s primary
NEW YORK — The candidates for New York City mayor blanketed television programs with commercials, gave interviews to nearly anyone holding a microphone and relied on old-fashioned retail politicking as they embarked on the frantic stretch run of the primary campaign.
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Cuomo gives GOP senator who voted for N.Y. marriage equality $90K job
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given a former Republican senator who was a key to the legalization of gay marriage a $90,000-a-year job in a move a religious conservative group called payback for the critical vote.
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NY Times endorses Christine Quinn as Democratic choice for mayor of New York
The New York Times on Saturday endorsed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to be the next Mayor of New York.
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Transgender woman dies after brutal assault in Harlem
NEW YORK — Hate crimes task force detectives were investigating Friday the death of a transgender woman who was assaulted last week on a New York City street and later died.
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NYPD releases sketches of two men sought in anti-gay hate crime
NEW YORK — The new York Police Department has released sketches of two suspects wanted in an anti-gay bias attack in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
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Police investigating alleged anti-gay attack on two men in NYC
NEW YORK — Police are investigating an alleged anti-gay bias attack in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, the latest in a spate of attacks on gay men in New York City over the past several months.
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Gang member sentenced in brutal anti-gay beating, torture of three men
NEW YORK — A Bronx gang member has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a brutal beating and torture of a new recruit he thought was gay, and two other men in separate, gruesome assaults in October 2010.
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Settlement announced in N.Y. school district anti-gay bias lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA, N.Y. — A northern New York school district has agreed to a series of measures to combat bullying as part of a settlement of a former student’s anti-gay bias lawsuit.
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Hate crime conviction in murder of transgender woman overturned
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — An appeals court has overturned the hate crime conviction of a central New York man in the 2009 slaying of a transgender woman, ruling that jury verdicts in the case were contradictory.