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Last Ditch
Effort To Pass Hate Crimes Law
As the clock
ticks away the hours before the end of the current session of
Congress supporters of a bill adding sexual orientation to hate
crimes laws are attempting a hail Mary pass. The leadership in the
Republican controlled House refusing to bring the bill to the floor
for a vote, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) has filed a discharge petition.
Providence
May Elect Gay Mayor
Mayoral candidate David Cicilline is a one-man
political rainbow: Italian, Jewish, liberal, wealthy and gay. He is
setting the stage to become the largest U.S. city to elect an
openly gay
mayor.
Voters
Keep Miami-Dade's Gay Rights Law
Miami-Dade County's gay rights ordinance withstood a
challenge from Christian conservatives, as voters rejected a
proposal to repeal the law. With 727 of 754 precincts, or 96
percent, reporting in Tuesday's primary,
150,316
votes, or 53
percent, were against repealing the law, while 133,299 votes, or 47
percent, were in favor.
Fears Confirmed in Study of Second-Strain
HIV 'Reinfection'
A recent study and an accompanying editorial
published Sept. 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine cast doubt
on the widely held assumption among HIV-positive persons that they
can't be re-infected with the AIDS
virus.
Wyoming
Christians Protest Hate Monger Phelps' Plan to
Demonstrate
Christian
leaders has asked anti-gay pastor and his congregation
to stay away from Wyoming as the fourth
anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard approaches.
Phelps' son, Fred Phelps Jr., dismissed the group's objections as "irrelevant" and said they
would have no effect on Westboro's plans for a series of
pickets next
month.
GLBT Domestic
Violence Reports Increase in
2001
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs report on
GLBT domestic violence, 5,046 cases of domestic violence were
documented in 2001, which represented a 25%
increase from 4,048 cases recorded in
2000.
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