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• Gay nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital personally apologize to lesbian whose partner died there

  

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Several Jackson Memorial Hospital nurses personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a Washington state lesbian who said a Jackson social worker wouldn't allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007.

  "We certainly are sorry for the [...]

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• Jackson Memorial Hospital nurses personally apologize to lesbian whose partner died there

  

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Several Jackson Memorial Hospital nurses personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a Washington state lesbian who said a Jackson social worker wouldn't allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007.

  "We certainly are [...]

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• Florida Competitive Workforce bill filed to add anti-discrimination protections statewide

  

  News release from Equality Florida:

  (TALLAHASSEE) Equality Florida applauds the filing of the Competitive Workforce bill in the Florida House of Representative. House bill 391, filed by Rep. Kelly Skidmore, would add sexual orientation and gender identity to Florida’s civil rights statues.

  Currently, [...]

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• Gay nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital personally apologize to lesbian whose partner died there

  

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Several Jackson Memorial Hospital nurses personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a Washington state lesbian who said a Jackson social worker wouldn't allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007.

  "We certainly are [...]

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• Banned director brings gay romance film to Hong Kong

  By MIN LEE, AP Entertainment Writer

  HONG KONG -- A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home [...]

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• Staff hand-delivers first issue of DC Agenda

  Here’s a news release issued today about DC Agenda:

  WASHINGTON, DC — The Washington Blade, formerly the nation’s oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper, died on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 9:30 AM. The 40-year-old paper ceased operation under the weight of its parent company’s financial problems. [...]

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• Out-of-work Washington Blade staffers unite and start gay paper of their own, DC Agenda

  Mark’s List to launch magazine, newspaper after South Florida Blade publisher shuts down

  When publisher Window Media/Unite Media suddenly shut down this week, it also meant the end of longtime gay newspapers and magazines in South Florida, Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C.

  As I reported on Monday, [...]

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• Conferences offering opposite views on homosexuality to converge in West Palm Beach

  BY JANE MUSGRAVE, Palm Beach Post

  WEST PALM BEACH -- One group believes that homosexuals can be cured and runs programs aimed at putting gay men and lesbians on a straight path.

  The other group believes such programs have tortured thousands of men and women, making it impossible for them [...]

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• Task Force remembers those lost to anti-transgender violence

  News release from National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:

  WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — Tomorrow marks the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, memorializing those lost to anti-transgender violence over the past year. The Task Force honors the memory of transgender people killed internationally in 2009. For more information, including [...]

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• Miss California pageant gives ad time to gay group, offers equal time to ex-title holder Carrie Prejean

  Associated Press

  SAN FRANCISCO -- The Miss California USA pageant director who became embroiled in a war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30-seconds of free ad time to the state's largest gay rights group.

  Equality California announced Thursday that it would be airing a spot [...]

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