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John W. Gintell, co-chair of the Cambridge LGBT Commission, said he hopes that comprehensive statistics will help open minds about the presence of same-sex couples in the Cambridge community...
...Knowing about how many same-sex couples are out there, living their lives, will help remove some people’s prejudice,” Gintell said...
...passed, the bill would also make great strides toward closing the state’s multi-billion dollar budget deficit. Simply selling the licenses for the slots and casinos would generate an immediate one-time payment of $75 million to $100 million that would help tremendously in the short term. In the longer term, the state would collect 25 percent of the revenue from both casinos, adding a projected $250 million to $300 million dollars per year to its dry coffers...
...conference featured panels examining a range of issues on how the law can help or hinder sexual minorities. Panelists discussed issues such as sodomy criminalization, same-sex marriage, asylum for sexual minorities under refugee law, and perspectives on lesbians’ rights, women’s rights, and sexual rights...
...We’re not in the position that we’d like to be in,” Baskind said. “I think we’re going to need a little a bit of help from this point...