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Va. GOP nominates trio of anti-LGBT candidates for state leadership
RICHMOND, Va. — Delegates at Virginia’s GOP Convention on Saturday nominated a trio of candidates with a long history of marginalizing and demonizing LGBT people in hopes they will become their state’s next leaders.
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Governor pressures Ill. House to act on marriage bill before session ends
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn says Illinois has a chance to make history before the end of the legislative session, and is pressuring House lawmakers to act on the issue of marriage equality.
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Suspect in NYC shooting charged with murder as a hate crime
NEW YORK — The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime.
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Details emerge in case against teen accused of lewd behavior with girlfriend
SEBASTIAN, Fla. — New details emerged Monday in the arrest of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior accused of “lewd and lascivious behavior” with her 14-year-old girlfriend, after the Indian River County Sheriff’s Department released a copy of the arrest affidavit.
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Florida teen fighting criminal charges related to same-sex relationship
SEBASTIAN, Fla. — A Florida high school senior is facing two years of house arrest, probation and a lifetime as a registered sex offender after engaging in a same-sex relationship with another student.
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UPDATED: Police call fatal New York City shooting an anti-gay hate crime
NEW YORK — Police say a gunman used anti-gay slurs before fatally shooting a gay man in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
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Boy Scouts to vote soon on whether to accept gay youth
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its controversial membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
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Texas judge enforces ‘morality clause’ to split up lesbian couple
McKINNEY, Texas — A Texas judge has invoked a “morality clause” in a lesbian mother’s divorce from her husband, requiring that the woman’s current partner of three years vacate their home “in the interest and welfare” of the divorced couple’s children.
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Mormon church arranged meeting ahead of vote against LGBT discrimination
POCATELLO, Idaho — Pocatello city officials met with an attorney for a Washington, D.C.-based conservative group brought in by the Mormon church a few weeks before councilors rejected an ordinance intended to protect LGBT people from discrimination.
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Pa. school still refuses to announce transgender grad by his chosen name
RED LION, Pa. — A transgender student in central Pennsylvania is continuing his fight to be announced by his male name at graduation next month.