'Obama, I know you are listeng': Gay rights activists march D.C.

Contents:

• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS
• MAYOR BOWSER TO RALLY SUPPORT OF BRGG GAY GAM 2022 TO WASHGTON, DC
• GAY RIGHTS MARCHERS PRS CSE WASHGTON

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS

Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

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S., supporters of LGBT rights mobilized for march and ralli Sunday, celebratg their gas but angered over threats to those centerpiece event, the Equaly March Washgton, was endorsed by virtually every major natnal advocy group workg on behalf of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins.

MAYOR BOWSER TO RALLY SUPPORT OF BRGG GAY GAM 2022 TO WASHGTON, DC

Tmp, although he mpaigned as a potential ally of gays and lbians, has stocked his admistratn wh many fo of LGBT-rights advanc, cludg Vice Print Mike Pence, Attorney General Jeff Ssns, and Health and Human Servic Secretary Tom Price. The Gay and Lbian Associatn of Chos (GALA) members om around the untry sg the on the Natnal Mall wh Capol Hill the background durg the Equaly March for Uny and Pri Washgton, Sunday, June 11, 2017. Monday is the anniversary of the mass shootg a year ago Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people -- mostly Latos -- at Pulse, a gay the marchers Washgton was Gil Menz, a Puerto Rin native who traveled wh his partner all the way om San Francis to jo the para.

GAY RIGHTS MARCHERS PRS CSE WASHGTON

"Sister Sera Na" wh the New York Cy Gay Men's Chos, sgs on the Natnal Mall wh the Capol the background durg the Equaly March for Uny and Pri Washgton, Sunday, June 11, 2017. Also marchg, and sgg eedom songs along the way, was Gregory Elfers of Teaneck, New Jersey, who was wh fellow members of the New York Cy Gay Men's Chos. Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill.

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