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Woman faces prison time after beating son for engaging in gay sex act
FOREST HILL, Texas — A Texas woman is facing felony charges for badly beating her 15-year-old son after she caught him receiving oral sex from a male cousin last December.
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W.Va. state Senate advances bill to charge for HIV testing
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Facing pressure from shrinking federal funds, the West Virginia Senate advanced a bill Thursday that would allow local health departments to charge patients for testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
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FBI ‘monitoring’ investigation of gay Miss. mayoral candidate’s death
JACKSON, Miss. — The FBI said Wednesday that it has been monitoring the state investigation into the death of an openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi, but the agency didn’t indicate it had opened its own investigation.
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Obama signs LGBT-inclusive domestic violence bill
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization bill into law.
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Same-sex marriage bill has votes to clear first hurdle in Minn. House
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota has enough votes to clear one of its first legislative hurdles, over protests from opponents.
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Report: Marriage equality in Illinois could add $103 million to state’s economy
Extending marriage to same-sex couples in Illinois would generate up to $103 million in spending to the state and local economy, according to a study released by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
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Pa. city councilman reprimanded for calling friend ‘gay’ in citywide email alert
A city council member in Washington, Pa., has been reprimanded for calling a friend gay in an email to test a citywide alert system.
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Judge: No immediate ruling on Michigan’s gay marriage ban
DETROIT — A judge said Thursday that a lesbian couple seeking to jointly adopt children made a “compelling” case Michigan’s gay marriage ban violates the U.S. Constitution, but he wants to wait for guidance from the Supreme Court before deciding whether to throw it out.
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High school student says banned yearbook photo is anti-gay discrimination
A teenager in San Antonio, Texas, says her high school has blocked a photograph of her and her girlfriend from appearing in the yearbook because they are gay.
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Advertising comes out of the closet, into mainstream with gay themes
Welcome to the latest in gay imagery in mainstream advertising, where LGBT people have been waiting for a larger helping of fairness, or at least something other than punchlines and cliches.