Published on April 28,
2007
Author: Tom Precious
- NEWS ALBANY BUREAU
© The Buffalo News Inc.
The Spitzer
administration has
ordered governments
across the state to
begin offering health
insurance and other
benefits to the same-sex
spouses of government
employees if
the couples were married
in Canada or other
jurisdictions that have
legalized such
marriages. The new
policy, to take effect
Tuesday, will affect 378
state agencies and 800
local governments,
including school
districts, that
participate in a
state-administered
insurance program.
MORE HERE AT BUFFALO
NEWS
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Bill targets hate
crimes against gays
Legislation passes despite
veto threat By Jim Abrams
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/04/07 6:49 AM
WASHINGTON — The House of
Representatives voted
Thursday to expand federal
hate crime categories to
include violent attacks
against gays and people
targeted because of gender,
acting just hours after the
White House threatened a
veto.
More
at Buffalo News HERE
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Court Won't
Force Gay Marriage Vote |
By JAY
LINDSAY
Associated Press Writer
Buffalo News
HERE
BOSTON (AP) -- The
state's highest court ruled Wednesday it had no
authority to force lawmakers to vote on a proposed
constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, but it
still criticized them for not acting.
Opponents of same-sex marriage had collected 170,000
signatures to get an amendment on the 2008 ballot that
would define marriage in Massachusetts as between a man
and a woman, but their effort still needed the support
of a quarter of the Legislature.
When lawmakers failed to vote on the question in
November, the governor and angry opponents sued.
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FOUND THEM
at Pride-Buffalo.org
The buttons on
the page still don't work
Some idiots
took over their name. |
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PRIDEBUFFALO.ORG Where Are You ??? |
 The
Pride parade people have seemed to disappeared.
Does any out there know what happened to them and their
website. Please click here
and tell me where they are or somebody to get in contact
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Boody died
from strangulation; Friend of Boody describes ‘volatile
love affair' |
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from
wellsville daily
http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/articles/2006/12/05/news/news01.txt
from wgrz:
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=43150
 Police
officers on Saturday found 26-year-old Mark Harkenrider
on the floor of his apartment on East Fassett Street in
Wellsville, an Allegany County village near the
Pennsylvania line 70 miles southeast of Buffalo.
He was taken to Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville,
where he died Sunday.
A search of the apartment turned up the body of
23-year-old Ryan Boody of Moon Township, Pennsylvania.
His body was found in a container in a closet. Boody had
been missing since
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Governors - Gay Marriage
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An interesting article from wgrz.com
The party-endorsed Democratic candidate, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, supports legalizing gay marriage, and said he will propose a bill if elected in November.
Spitzer's Democratic challenger, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, does not support gay marriage, but does support economic and legal protections for same-sex couples.
Read MORE HERE
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Where did PRIDE
begin
Stonewall
June
27, 1969
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Judy Garland,
anti-black and
Latino prejudges
lead to Gay Bars all
over the world being
Open and OUT, and
Disco and the 70's
to happen.
find OUT more here
Only 35 years ago,
no one was safe to
enter a gay bar, if
you could find one.
If you did, there
was a good chance
the bar would be
raided by the police
because of two men
being seen kissing.
Your id would be
copied and your name
would appear in the
newspaper for all
your friends and
family to see.
On the night of Judy
Garlands Funeral,
the NYC Police did a
very routine raid on
a mainly black and
Latino bar called
Stonewall, in an
effort to clean up
New York.
There, for the
first time on
record, homosexual
patrons fought back
when Stonewall was
raided.
Eyewitnesses claim
that the homosexual
patrons'
counter-riot began
when one burly,
Stonewall patron
hurled a lidded,
metal garbage can
filled with empty
liquor bottles
through a police car
window.
Ever since that
night, Stonewall has
been revered as an
enduring symbol of
the gay militant
spark lit that
night, which has
become a
gay/lesbian/bisexual
militant
conflagration
setting America --
and the world --
aflame with gay
rights issues and
conflicts.
For gay, lesbian and
bisexual activists,
the word "Stonewall"
signifies quite
possibly the most
important, single
landmark in the
worldwide struggle
for gay rights.
find OUT more here
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