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The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+

The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 January 30th, 2015|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+|

It was close to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of Nov. 4, 2013, and Sasha Fleischman was riding the 57 bus home from school. An 18-year-old senior at a small private high school, Sasha wore a T-shirt, a black fleece jacket, a gray newsboy cap and a gauzy white skirt. For much of the long

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States Renew Fight to Stop Same-Sex Marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 January 29th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the nation waits for the Supreme Court to decide whether same-sex marriages should be legal nationwide, another, more mundane front has opened in the wedding wars: the offices of the state and local officials who perform civil marriages and issue

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Mormon Church’s shift on gay rights follows series of defeats in California

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Mormon Church’s shift on gay rights follows series of defeats in California

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 January 28th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

The pledge Tuesday by the Mormon Church to oppose housing and job discrimination against gays follows years of piercing church losses in California over gay rights, including one last week.

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Marriage of Convenience

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Marriage of Convenience

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 28th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

Of the many gay and lesbian couples fighting for the right to marry in the courts, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse are listed first in the case that the Supreme Court will hear this spring. DeBoer and Rowse, who live in Hazel Park, Mich., want to marry so they can both be adoptive

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Free Speech Can Be Anti-Gay

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 26th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

A federal judge has rejected a series of arguments from Waubonsee Community College about why it should be permitted to bar an anti-gay group from passing out fliers on campus.

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In North Carolina, police officers and young black men talk it out

Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+

In North Carolina, police officers and young black men talk it out

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 21st, 2015|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

Show your hands. Don’t reach for anything. Don’t make sudden movements.

One chilly evening not long ago, a panel of police officers met with citizens gathered here at City Hall to offer advice on a subject that has come up in almost every city in America: What happens when a young African American man is stopped

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Gays Nationwide Can Marry

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Gays Nationwide Can Marry

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 16th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. The court’s announcement made it likely that it would resolve one of the great civil rights questions of the age before its current term

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Can’t Have Your Cake, Gays Are Told, and a Rights Battle Rises

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Can’t Have Your Cake, Gays Are Told, and a Rights Battle Rises

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:13+00:00 December 16th, 2014|LGBTQ+|

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Jack Phillips is a baker whose evangelical Protestant faith informs his business. There are no Halloween treats in his bakery — he does not see devils and witches as a laughing matter. He will not make erotic-themed pastries — they offend his sense of morality. And he declines cake orders for same-sex

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California LGBT students targeted more for sexual orientation than for race

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:15+00:00 November 17th, 2014|LGBTQ+|

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in California are more than twice as likely to be harassed or assaulted at school based on their sexual orientation than for their race or ethnicity and four times more than they would be for a disability, according to new survey data released this week.

The data, released Thursday, comes

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Tim Cook’s Coming Out: ‘This Will Resonate’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:15+00:00 October 31st, 2014|LGBTQ+|

Tim Cook’s declaration on Thursday that “I’m proud to be gay” made him the first publicly gay chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. But Mr. Cook isn’t just any chief executive. And Apple

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