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Contents:

• GAY UPLE BEATEN AND BLOODIED OUTSI CONNECTICUT GAY BAR
• HOW GAY AND LBIAN COUPL CAN STOP FIGHTG
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR
• TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
• DIGNER READY FOR HIGH COURT FIGHT ON EXCLUDG GAY COUPL
• DIGNER WHO REFED TO MAKE WEBSE FOR GAY UPLE READY FOR SUPREME COURT FIGHT
• GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG
• FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH

GAY UPLE BEATEN AND BLOODIED OUTSI CONNECTICUT GAY BAR

A gay uple was beaten and bloodied ont of the Connecticut gay bar they own. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

HOW GAY AND LBIAN COUPL CAN STOP FIGHTG

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

I was ptivated by this se, which bed timely them of gay marriage, egg donatn, surrogacy, twship, and fay. The rult is a book, Gay Fathers, Tw Sons: The Cizenship Case That Captured the World, to be released on Augt 8.

Gay Fathers, Tw Sons: The Cizenship Case That Captured the World. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. (AP) — A Christian web signer who ntends her relig beliefs prevent her om makg weddg webs for gay upl said Monday that her legal battle the U.

A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR

“If the urt l for Lorie Smh would have to reverse a long le of precents and break om an unbroken set of s, ” Cole, who says she’s served LGBTQ clients, claims the lawsu is not about gay marriage or the ctomer, only the eedom om beg erced to exprsg ias ntrary to her beliefs.

Phillips, who had refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple 2012, also faced off the high urt agast Colorado. A Christian web signer who ntends her relig beliefs prevent her om makg weddg webs for gay upl said Monday that her legal battle the U.

Smh, who says she’s served LGBTQ clients, claims the lawsu is not about gay marriage or the ctomer, only the eedom om beg erced to exprsg ias ntrary to her beliefs.

TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

Or a way to addrs nflict that is specific to gay men? While there is not much rearch to draw om, the studi that do exist suggt that, on average, same-sex upl rolve nflict more nstctively than different-sex upl, and wh ls are always exceptns, and even the healthit of gay upl are not ntually baskg a rabow-hued utopia. They have problems jt like everyone they did not, “I’d be out of bs, ” said Rick Miller, a psychotherapist Boston who works wh gay and straight upl.

Likewise, is unfair to lump all straight upl together, and disgenuo to suggt that they are not pable of argug a healthy bee male and female same-sex upl each have different strengths that help them endure, we n all learn om them, Miller are some nstctive methods to handle disagreements, as observed by rearchers of gay upl:Use humor to fe angerCrackg a joke the midst of a heated moment n backfire, but when done properly, “ almost immediately releas the tensn, ” said Robert Rave, 45, who liv wh his hband, David Forrt, Los ced a recent r trip where Forrt, 35, ed humor to help end an latg argument over whether they should rely on Google Maps.

“Gay and lbian upl were gentler raisg issu, far ls fensive, and ed more humor than heterosexual partners, ” said John M.

DIGNER READY FOR HIGH COURT FIGHT ON EXCLUDG GAY COUPL

A 2018 study suggted that when members of a same-sex uple try to fluence one another, they are more likely to offer enuragement and praise rather than cricism or lectur when pared to different-sex mdful of each other’s emotnal needsUnlike gay men, women who are married to women are “nstantly monorg each other’s emotns and needs and rpondg to them — but they are dog for each other, so ’s reciproted, ” said Debra Umberson, Ph. Umberson, who has studied gay upl for more than a . More about Christa CaronA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 4 of the New York edn wh the headle: When Gay Coupl Argue, It’s Different.

India's Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison but has yet to legalize same-sex marriag. India crimalized gay sex five years ago Dias and Anand were born an India that held onto a Brish lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy.

After s of grassroots activism and tense lobbyg at policy levels, the Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. Sce the law India only regniz heterosexual marriag, children of gay upl lose out on legal regnn for both parents.

DIGNER WHO REFED TO MAKE WEBSE FOR GAY UPLE READY FOR SUPREME COURT FIGHT

A powerful right-wg figure has exprsed support for LGBTQ rights Sce there is no legal regnn of same-sex marriage, gay upl whose fai threaten them wh vlence bee they are opposed to gay relatnships have no protectn unr the law.

Earlier this year, Bhagwat said that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. In December 2021, the Uttarakhand High Court orred a gay uple to be protected by the police.

In November 2019, the Punjab and Haryana High Court orred the police to protect a gay uple threatened by their fai.

GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG

Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the most powerful Hdu natnalist anizatn, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, said an terview that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. Campbell was the first gay veteran to secure burial rights for her spoe, and the pair were the first same-sex ary uple to be buried together at a US natnal cemetery.

The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across the 172 natnal cemeteri the US – grounds rerved chiefly for ary members and selected fay. However, gay veterans have always fought for their right to be clud and celebrated such spac.

Their tombston shout to the silence: “Gay is good, ” reads a plaque below the grave of Frank Kameny, an inic activist, civil servant and World War II veteran.

FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH

A glossy namels marble headstone marks the grave of Leonard Matlovich, one of the first LGBTQ veterans to prott the ary’s ban on homosexualy, as one belongg to “A Gay Vietnam Veteran.