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Contents:
- HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
- RUDY GAY
HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
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" This has been "the gayt year gay history, " the words of Fred Saz, vice print of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, and not only bee dividual stat and the U. There have been substantive chang policy and personnel, wh Print Obama sentially doublg the number of openly gay dividuals who have served as feral judg and ambassadors.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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"It took the shape of a ln different nversatns that a newly out gay fay member had wh her parents or his siblgs, " Kenll says. Durg his first term, Obama sometim me across as a reluctant warrr on gay issu, takg his time to "evolve" his posn on marriage, his timg perhaps prodd by remarks om Vice Print Joe Bin. Obama had already been the rare natnal polician to e the word "we" when speakg of the gay rights e before announcg his support for same-sex marriage last year.
In his gural addrs January, he referred the same breath to Stonewall, Selma and Sene Falls (rpectively, landmarks the stggl for rights for gays, Ain-Amerins and women).
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Obama has been the "gays' LBJ, " says Jonathan Rch, a rint scholar at the Brookgs Instutn, parg the current print to Lyndon Johnson, who signed to law the Civil Rights and Votg Rights Acts of the 1960s. This year's Supreme Court cisns on gay marriage might well have turned out differently if the ernment still had an active tert argug for discrimatn, says Aaron Belk, director of the Palm Center at San Francis State Universy, which studi transgenr ary service.