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...that strategy is under renewed scrutiny among gay activists, some of whom are calling for a more pointed and even confrontational approach. "While time may be on our side, if we leave these issues up to the voters to eventually change or overturn, there is no telling how much time it will take," says Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign in Louisville, Ky. Hartman's group has successfully pushed for a local ordinance giving gays there protection against discrimination at work and in housing, but so far has been unsuccessful in convincing lawmakers to allow gay marriage. "LGBT...
...Cambridge Election Commission announced nine unofficial City Council winners near midnight Tuesday, but the then-uncounted 22 percent of the votes may overturn those preliminary results...
...York special election are unusual, nothing is more sui generis than the race taking place 300 miles to the south, in which the outcome is in no doubt. New York City's mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, is widely expected to win a third term after leading an effort to overturn New York City's term-limit law and spending tens of millions of his own money to bury his Democratic opponent. The only lessons to be drawn from New York City's mayoral race involve smart, free-spending, billionaire incumbents - none of which will be on the ballot...
...trial is far from certain. Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin has already advised that the charges be dropped as groundless. Under French law, he now has several weeks to petition an appeals court to overturn Simeoni's ruling - a move he looks certain to make since he previously told the judge he believed the evidence against Chirac was too weak to take to trial...
...friend of Bill Clinton's who helped agitate for this year's march - had been arrested outside the White House for opposing Clinton's infamous "Don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military, the same policy that gays are now impatiently waiting on Obama to overturn. "A lot of us were 9 or 10 years old in 1993," Ting had said to me. I wondered if today's 9- and 10-year-old gays and lesbians would remember this march. Ting and his friends have a lot of work ahead of them to make sure they...