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New York governor to hold strategy session on marriage equality
New York’s Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will meet with advocates of same-sex marriage on Wednesday in hopes of coming up with a plan to legalize gay unions in the Empire state.
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Cuomo wants NY state senate to take up marriage equality again this year
ALBANY, N.Y. — Just 14 months after the New York State Senate rejected a bill to legalize same sex marriage, Governor Andrew Cuomo is preparing to pursue another vote in the current legislative session.
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Portuguese model pleads ‘not guilty’ in brutal slaying of companion
Renato Seabra, the 21-year-old Portuguese model who admitted to the brutal murder of a celebrity journalist Carlos Castro in a New York hotel last month, pleaded “not guilty” in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.
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Queens man sentenced to 12 years in prison for 2009 gay bashing
A Queens man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for viscous 2009 attack on an openly gay man outside a College Point deli. Daniel Rodriguez, 22, pleaded guilty last year to first-degree robbery as a hate crime in the attack on 49-year-old Jack Price.
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Report: Facebook bullying leads high school freshman to commit suicide
Sadly, another teen suicide to report. Kameron Jacobsen, a 14-year-old freshman at Monroe-Woodbury High School in Central Valley, N.Y., died Tuesday after taking his own life. Sources report that Kameron was was tormented by Facebook bullies who taunted him because they thought he was gay.
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Superintendent approves GSA, overriding Principal who called kids ‘faggots’ when young
BAY SHORE, N.Y. — Valley Stream High School students will soon have their own Gay/Straight Alliance, despite the fact that their principal has rejected the effort, said bullying wasn’t a big deal, and admitted to calling people “faggots” herself — but didn’t mean anything by it.
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The state of Marriage Equality in 2011
2011 will likely see a number of battles state by state across the country. Three states plus the District of Columbia are facing the prospect of losing marriage equality, an additional seven states could start the process of amending their state constitutions to ban marriage equality, five could gain marriage equality.
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Portuguese model kills companion to cure victim of ‘homosexual demons’
NEW YORK — A Portuguese male model has been charged with second-degree murder in the gruesome attack on prominent Portuguese journalist while the two men were visiting in New York City.
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Queens College GSA vandalized with hate messages, gay slurs
FLUSHING, N.Y. — The Queens College Gay Straight Alliance was vandalized this month with hate messages and gay slurs. So far both campus police and city police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
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Advocacy groups say NYC health department ad demonizes gay men, HIV patients
The Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an HIV/AIDS prevention and advocacy group, and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), say the latest ad by the NYC Heatlth Department creates a grim portrait of being an HIV patient, which could further stigmatize victims.