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Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• GAY CAK!
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• LEATHER BOY OFFICIAL FAVOURE OF 2009 !
• GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE
• BAKER'S REFAL TO BAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• US URT ORRS BAKER TO MAKE GAY K
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• SIAR S LIKE AND ALTERNATIV

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Jack Phillips has temporarily stopped makg weddg kThe US Supreme Court has led favour of a baker Colorado who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay Colorado state urt had found that baker Jack Phillips' cisn to turn away David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012 was unlawful the Supreme Court led on Monday a 7-2 vote that that cisn had vlated Mr Phillips' rights. The nservative Christian ced his relig beliefs refg rights groups feared a lg agast the uple uld set a precent for treatg gay marriag differently om heterosexual the Supreme Court's verdict stead foc specifilly on Mr Phillips' se. The cisn do not state that florists, photographers, or other servic n now refe to work wh gay lg three years after the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage the law of the land s landmark Obergefell v Hodg source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageWhat did Monday's lg say?

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GAY CAK!

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GAY SYDNEY: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, BARET AND CULTURE

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BAKER'S REFAL TO BAKE GAY WEDDG KE

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US URT ORRS BAKER TO MAKE GAY K

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NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

However, the se should clearly not be terpreted as givg bs untrammeled eedom to refe to provi goods or servic to people based on sexual orientatn (or other tras) the majory lg, Jtice Kennedy dited that: '[t]he oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market.

In the latt victory for gay rights, an appeals urt has led that a Colorado baker nnot refe to sell weddg k to same-sex upl simply bee go agast his relig cisn nearly two months after a landmark Supreme Court cisn legalised gay marriage across the Uned Stat. Masterpiece Cakhop has joed a growg number of bs succsfully sued for discrimatg agast gay upl.

However, bs more than half of the Uned Sat are still legally allowed to refe gay ctomers bee 29 stat don't prohib discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.

‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY

Charlie Craig and David Mulls filed a plat unr Colorado's anti-discrimatn laws when baker Jack Phillips told them 2012 he wouldn't make them a ke due to his relig state did not regnise gay marriage at the time, but did prohib discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. Phillips argued that beg required to make weddg k for gay upl vlated his right to eedom of relign and ee state's appeals urt disagreed, argug that requirg someone to ply wh the law is not the same as pellg someone to "endorse" somethg they don't agree wh.

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

SIAR S LIKE AND ALTERNATIV

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There have been s of homophobic people g the apps to lure gay men to meetgs at which they are attacked and robbed. Basil Cathedral - Red SquareGay SceneUnrstandably, Rsia's gay scene is low profile and rather discreet.