Fort Worth, Texas, council members want report on police raid on gay nightclubFORT WORTH, Texas — Two city officials are seeking an investigation into a police raid at a gay nightclub that ended with the arrests of several patrons and the hospitalization of a man with a head injury. Gay community stages rally in BhubaneswarBHUBANESWAR - People belonging to sexual minorities staged a rally in Bhubaneswar demanding their rights. Rebel reflects on gay rights progress 40 years after defining moment of NYC’s Stonewall riotsNEW YORK — Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969, finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be arrested for kissing or holding hands in public. Inside the bar, where plywood covered the windows, warning lights served as a signal for couples to stop dancing. PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama takes slow approach to gay rights, still will take their moneyWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised gay and lesbian voters he would repeal a law banning their open service in the military, would do away with a federal marriage law and would champion their causes from the White House. In his first five months, he’s taken incremental steps that have little real effect and left some people feeling betrayed. Gay rights supporters plan weekend rally in Philadelphia, site of demonstrations decades agoPHILADELPHIA — Lilli Vincenz started demonstrating for gay rights at Independence Hall in the 1960s, when the activists had a strict no-hippies dress code: suits and ties for men, dresses or skirts for women. California Governor Schwarzenegger orders mass layoffsSAN FRANCISCO - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued 20,000 layoff notices and halted work on the state’s remaining 276 public projects as intransigent Republican lawmakers continued to stonewall efforts to pass a budget. |
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