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Jury awards gay cop $1.1 million in harassment, retaliation lawsuit
A Los Angeles police sergeant who claimed he was harassed because he is gay, and then retaliated against for reporting the incidents, was awarded $1.1 million by a jury on Thursday.
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Three suspects in custody following attack outside El Paso gay bar
Police have arrested three suspects in connection with the brutal beating of a man outside an El Paso, Tex., gay nightclub earlier this month.
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Minnesota House committee votes to advance anti-gay marriage bill
A Minnesota state House committee on Wednesday narrowly voted to advance a bill calling for a statewide vote to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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Arizona teen lobbies Congress for support of Student Non-Discrimination Act
An Arizona teen who started his anti-bullying activism when he was forced to drop out of high school at the age of 14, has taken his cause to Washington to lobby Congress to make schools a safer environment for LGBT youth.
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Bloomberg, Quinn pressure NY GOP state Senators to support marriage equality
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn were in Albany on Tuesday, and lobbied Republican State Senators pass a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Rhode Island House committee advances same-sex civil unions bill
A Rhode Island state House committee on Tuesday voted to advance a bill that would legalize civil unions for same-sex couples — the same bill that was met with scorn by gay marriage supporters and opponents at the committee hearing last week.
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OK rejects bullying bill, ‘tired of people coming to legislature to solve problems’
Oklahoma lawmakers have voted against strengthening the state’s anti-bullying laws.
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Nevada state Assembly approves transgender workplace protections bill
The Nevada state Assembly on Tuesday gave final legislative approval to a bill that would prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity and expression.
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Kentucky man sentenced in hate crime attack outside gay-friendly bar
A Kentucky judge on Tuesday ruled that a white supremacist had committed a hate crime when he attacked four people last year outside a bar frequented by gays.
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LGBT advocacy groups urge Orbitz to drop Fox News over anti-gay rhetoric
Media Matters on Monday kicked off its “DropFox” campaign by urging Orbitz, an online travel site, to pull its ads from the anti-LGBT Fox News network.