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More than 100 attend D.C. vigil for Texas lesbian couple
WASHINGTON — More than 100 people gathered in Dupont Circle on Friday for a vigil in honor of a lesbian couple who was shot last week in a Texas park.
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Why I’m going to a Texas vigil to mourn a lesbian couple
I’m going to Texas on Friday to mourn the loss of a beautiful young girl at a vigil in the park where she and her girlfriend were shot. But I’m also hoping this tragedy wakes people up to the nightmares on the horizon that are sure to come if our foes don’t halt their rancid and reactionary rhetoric.
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Teenage lesbian couple found shot in Texas park, one fatally wounded
PORTLAND, Texas — A teen-aged lesbian couple has been found shot in a public park in this small Texas resort community just northeast of Corpus Christi.
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Woman charged in D.C. shooting of gay man
D.C. police on Monday arrested a 27-year-old woman in connection with the March 11 shooting of a gay man at the International House of Pancakes restaurant in Columbia Heights that police listed as an anti-gay hate crime.
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Our pick for LGBT Person of the Year: Daniel Hernandez Jr.
Daniel Hernandez, an openly gay 21-year-old University of Arizona student, was just five days into his new job as an intern for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) when, during a routine “meet & greet” with her constituents in a suburban Tucson shopping center, a mentally disturbed man open fired in an assassination attempt on Giffords, killing six people among the gathered crowd, including a federal judge…
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Married lesbian couple rescues 40 kids during Norway shooting rampage
A lesbian couple were among the first responders to assist victims following the shooting massacre in Norway on Friday, when gunman Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting rampage at a youth camp on Utoya island.
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Intern credited with saving Giffords to attend ‘State of the Union’
Daniel Hernandez Jr., the openly gay congressional intern who rushed to the aid of his boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, when a shooting rampage erupted around them in Tucson, Ariz., two weeks ago, has been invited to attend the State of the Union address.
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Why I find Sarah Palin’s response to Arizona shootings’ aftermath ‘reprehensible’
It is not often that I find it necessary to set aside my press credentials and lend an opinion to public discourse on any given subject that I report on. However, that said, I need to comment not as an American which I am not, nor as a Canadian which I am, but rather as a human being and responsible adult living in a divisive and polarized society here in the United States.
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Gunman in AZ shooting held without bail; Giffords’ condition critical; gay intern hailed
The suspect in the attempted assassination of a U. S. Congresswoman, which left her and 14 others gravely injured and six dead, appeared in federal court on Monday. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus, remains in critical condition after suffering a single gunshot wound to the head.
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Gay intern credited with helping to save Giffords’ life following Arizona shooting
A gay intern, who had been working for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) for only five days, is credited with helping to save the Congresswoman’s life after she took a gunshot wound to the head while appearing at a public event in Tucson, Ariz. Saturday.