South Bend IN

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  Gay Indiana mayor joins crowded field to lead national Democrats

  Friday, January 6, 2017

  South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is barely known outside northern Indiana, but he brings a distinctive resume to the campaign.

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  South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg says in essay that he’s gay

  Tuesday, June 16, 2015

  The first-term Democratic mayor writes in an essay published Tuesday in the South Bend Tribune that he was well into adulthood “before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay.”

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  Two more Ind. city councils oppose same-sex marriage ban

  Tuesday, January 14, 2014

  SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Two more Indiana city councils are opposing efforts to write a gay marriage ban into the state constitution.

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  South Bend city council to reconsider anti-discrimination ordinance

  Friday, March 9, 2012

  SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A proposal to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is back before the South Bend, Ind. city council.

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  South Bend tables vote on LGBT inclusive workplace discrimination bill

  Tuesday, July 27, 2010

  The South Bend Common Council has voted to table the human rights ordinance that would have extended employment discrimination protection to its gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender citizens.

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• Gay couple ‘banned for life’ from Wal-Mart after false shoplifting claim

  Saturday, November 7, 2009

  SOUTH BEND, Indiana — Joe Paolucci, who along with his twin sons and his partner, Thomas Hitchcock, have been banned from all Wal-Mart stores — not because they stole anything, but because they resisted being taken…

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