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By Ben Muessig - AOL News(June 28) -- Forget the holiday season; June is the time of year when people don their gayest apparel. Cities around the world celebrated gay pride parades last weekend, allowing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities to come together, often in costume. Revelers marched through New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico City, Berlin and Guatemala City, among other locations, dressed in elaborate get-ups in all shades of the rainbow. ...
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By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama waited for the nation's first federal civil rights law protecting gays and lesbians to reach his desk, the mother of the hate crime victim for whom it's named defended the administration against charges by some activists that he had forsaken their cause. "Obama is doing the best he can," said Judy Shepard, whose son, Matthew, was beaten senseless, tied to a fence and left for dead outside Laramie, Wyo., 11 years ago. "You can't just go in there and say, 'This is what we're going to get done.' Congress is busy with other things." Jemal ...
Matthew Shepard's Mom and the Push for Gay Rights
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMartyrs often die twice. First when the body is killed and a second time when their memory is venerated -- or denigrated -- beyond any connection to real life. Such was the case with Matthew Shepard, the young gay man who was beaten to a pulp and left to die, tied to a fence on a Wyoming prairie 11 years ago this month. Matthew Shepard immediately become an icon, figuratively and literally. Reports of how he was hoisted on a fence, crucified like Jesus, flashed around the world and still persist, even though it didn't quite happen that way. No matter, gay rights activists saw in Matthew a ...
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