A West Village Mural Weighs Gay Rights in the Middle East - New York Times (blog)


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A West Village Mural Weighs Gay Rights in the Middle East
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By ANN FARMER Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesA new mural in the West Village contrasting gay rights in Israel with those in some of its Arabic neighbors caught the attention of Israel Vazquez, a courier, on Wednesday. Even before the new mural at 111 ...
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NY mural contrasts gay rights in Israel with neighboring countries - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

NY mural contrasts gay rights in Israel with neighboring countries
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(JTA) -- A mural contrasting gay rights in Israel and Arab states was completed Friday in New York's West Village. The mural, on a parking lot wall, show the outlines of two men holding hands, according to The New York Times. Above them are the words, ...

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Will Schick: Free speech sometimes isn't pretty - Galesburg Register-Mail


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Will Schick: Free speech sometimes isn't pretty
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I give you William Anderson: “Still chuckling that a poster calling himself 'ymcaman' would be anti-gay marriage. (If you don't get the reference, Google the '70s band The Village People.)” Despite a rough start, the commenting community eventually got ...
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Being Gay in the World of Mad, Mad Men: What It Was Really Like - Huffington Post (blog)

Being Gay in the World of Mad, Mad Men: What It Was Really Like
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And let's face it: This was New York, where being gay was hardly a hidden-away phenomenon. In Greenwich Village the gay men were lined up every night along the western side of Washington Square. They sat and lounged against the low pipe railings there, ...

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Small-town don makes awkward ally for Serb liberals - euronews

Small-town don makes awkward ally for Serb liberals
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Feudal lord to some, Robin Hood to others, Palma is an anti-gay, small-town don and unlikely power-broker in post-Milosevic Serbia, where voters choose a new president on Sunday. It's no coincidence that two days after parliamentary and first-round ...

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Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy - KEYC TV

Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy
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AP Sports News Video A blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington says he is at an airport waiting to leave for the United States. A plane carrying a blind activist at the center ...

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Town's 9-acre deal seen as a potential conservation model - Rappahannock News


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Town's 9-acre deal seen as a potential conservation model
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Proponents of the plan say that in 10 years, the roughly 22 acres between the county's Gay Street complex and US 211 (encompassing the town-owned Avon Hall and wastewater treatment plant and the butterfly/nature trail already in development adjacent to ...

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