Lives Lived: Melissa Hope Levin, 57
Melissa was granted landed immigrant status on compassionate grounds of not separating us. We knew that Canada recognized the rights of gay and lesbian couples, well before gay marriage; the United States had no such compassion for us. Her application was …

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New Zealand media feel the pain of umpire’s howler to reprieve Adam Voges and deny Doug Bracewell
Bracewell lingered a bit while New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum had a brief exchange with Illingworth,” he wrote. “Tim Southee and the square leg umpire, Richard Kettleborough, had a similar chat but everything appeared convivial. “There have …

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Sacha Baron Cohen modelled Madagascar character on top lawyer
“I was playing this gay Austrian fashionista and it was a romantic comedy… and we thought I should end up with my boyfriend in a cage match in Arkansas,” he told U.S. chat show host Jimmy Kimmel. “The idea was we would start making out and kiss…

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McCaskill Wants Congress to Hold Sex Trafficking Website in Contempt
Claire McCaskill. McCaskill received unanimous and bipartisan support for a resolution to launch civil contempt proceedings against the website for refusing to comply with an investigation into online sex trafficking. “The notion that any company could …

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Juror can thank mom for being bounced from Carnation trial
The juror had alerted King County Superior Court officials to a recent video chat he had with his parents in which his mother asked about the trial, although jurors are under strict orders not to speak to anyone or read media accounts about the case.

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Marriage: I Did Not Know What It Meant, Until I Did
Mortgages are powerful symbols in our lives. Yet, I do not want to make light of the significance of the United States Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision. It is life-changing for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Washingtonians and for LGBT couples …

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Safe Schools Coalition: sexual politics in the classroom
The lead author of the All of Us guide is Margot Fink, a finalist for Young Australian of the Year for her work encouraging schools to create safer environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex students. A co-author is Marxist activist …

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Anti-LGBT Bullying Has Long-Term Mental Health Consequences, Study Finds

When bullying ends, LGBT young people don’t immediately recover. Depression and PTSD are concerns long after victimization ends.

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A love anticipated
Jared Ramirez didn’t expect to meet the girl who would change his life when he logged into an online chat room and he didn’t expect cancer to be the reason they might never meet. Sharing the same type of cancer, papillary carcinoma, with the main chara …

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Australia politician compares gay marriage to 'rams in a paddock'
The federal member for Mallee, Andrew Broad, has sparked a backlash for his comments about same-sex marriage, comparing gay couples to farm animals. Residents of Victoria’s north-west opened their local paper to this comment from Mallee’s Federal MP …

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