Word: gays
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...knows where the line is, but we just keep pushing.' WAN YANHAI, a gay-rights advocate in China, after the government canceled several events planned for Shanghai's first gay-pride festival...
...Washington Benefits for Gay Partners Extending an olive branch to critics who say he has failed to follow through on campaign promises, President Obama signed a memo on June 17 granting long-term-care and other benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees. The White House most recently drew criticism from gay-rights advocates for supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, which opposes same-sex marriage...
...brilliant poet in an era in which you were supposed to veil your marital problems or homosexual angst in 10 layers of metaphor. But in poem after poem, Harold used his tremendous pain--he was an illegitimate child who stood 5 ft. 2 in. and was openly gay--and, in a language that was accessible to anybody in America, made you feel very powerful things...
...American poetry, called him the "best poet of [his] generation." In Harold's most famous poem, "I Am in the Hub of the Fiery Force," he flashes back and forth between three or four rhythms like a virtuoso. He was writing about the agonies of being a gay man and an outcast in the U.S. before Allen Ginsberg. The Beats looked up to him. It was a tragedy that Harold never got the recognition that he should have...
...Last March, the diocese spent over $2,000 busing people to a rally in Hartford, where Catholics protested a bill that would have stripped pastors of control over parish finances. In April, the Church again trespassed. On its website, the diocese announced its opposition to a bill that legalized gay marriage and spurred parishioners to “contact your legislator.” OSE christened these three words “lobbying” and warned the diocese against further misbehavior...