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Saturday, May 24
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Source: Reuters via Washington Post , Xinhua via People's Daily , Birmingham News Around 200 gay activists marched through Bucharest, Romania on Saturday in what news service Reuters calls a "heavily policed pride parade." A US mayor, meanwhile, echoed the action of several eastern European mayors by refusing to grant organizers of a Pride observance any kind of official recognition. It's a far different situation in Brazil where organizers are bracing to host one of the world's largest LGBT Pride parades -- one that's likely to draw over three-million spectators and participants...
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Sunday, May 11
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Source: Southern Voice , Associated Press via WTVM Montgomery, Ala. -- LGBT advocates expressed both surprise and delight when the Alabama House on Tuesday passed a bill that would expand the state's existing hate crimes law to cover crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation. "It is a very happy day to be gay in Alabama," Danny Upton, executive director of Equality Alabama. "I'm just almost speechless," he told Atlanta's Southern Voice . "This is something that people told us could never happen." But, if the House vote was unexpected...
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Sunday, March 30
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Source: Huntsville Times SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - They just wanted to go to their school prom, but for one couple at Scottsboro High in Alabama, it took more than the usual dressmakers and hairstylists to get ready. For Chelsea Overstreet and Lauren Martin, lawyers and a judge had to intervene before the school would allow the gay couple to attend the school's annual big dance. On Saturday afternoon, the girls were pretty much like a lot of others in town -- both nervous and excited about going to their first prom in a only a few hours. But unlike the others, they went to the dance as a gay couple...
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Wednesday, October 10
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The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has reported that Tuesday night Howard J. Bayless III became the first openly gay man elected in the state of Alabama. Bayless, an attendee of the Victory Fund's Candidate and Campaign Training Program, as well as...
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