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Month: September 2018
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Lesbians harassed by anti-gay neighbors paint house rainbow.
Married lesbians in Pennsylvania who say they’ve endured years of homophobic slurs from their neighbors are fighting back by painting their house the colors of the rainbow, Pittsburgh TV station WTAE reports. The women, Lisa Licata and Sherry Lau, who moved to…
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Supreme Court rebuffs Catholic agency over same-sex foster care.
The case underscores increasing tensions between advocates for religious groups seeking exemptions from anti-discrimination laws and gay rights proponents. The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to force the city of Philadelphia to resume the placement of children in need of foster care with a Catholic agency that refuses to accept gay couples as foster parents.
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Heritage districts preserve vanishing LGBT history.
There is some question about which of San Francisco’s gay bars was the oldest and longest operating. The Old Crow opened on Market Street in 1935, closing in 1980, while the Gangway on Polk opened in 1910, but was not clearly LGBT-affiliated until much later.
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Religious groups kill gay conversion therapy bill.
The author of a California bill to declare gay conversion therapy a fraudulent business practice has abandoned his effort for this year after a fierce outcry from the state’s religious community. Assembly Bill 2943 would have made it illegal to sell any service intended…
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Irish leader feared outing by newspapers before coming out.
A new book charts the rise of Ireland’s mould-breaking gay leader, Leo Varadkar. Varadkar is one of the few openly gay world leaders, becoming the country’s Taoiseach (prime minister) through a Fine Gael leadership contest in 2017. The leader had come out as gay in…