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Archive for January, 2011

Obama names LGBT pioneer Roberta Achtenberg to federal civil rights post

(C) 2011 SF Gate. Entire article retrieved from: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=81824&tsp=1

President Obama named former San Francisco supervisor/co-founder of the to be a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on .

According to the …

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Gay rights groups react to Obama's State of the Union Address

(C) 2011 The Miami Herald. Entire article retrieved from: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/01/gay-rights-groups-react-to-president-obamas-state-of-the-union-address-regarding-dont-ask-dont-tell.html

From President Obama’s State of the Union Address:

Our troops come from every corner of this country -– they’re black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, …

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Report: Vermont needs human trafficking law

(C) 2011 Burlington Free Press. Entire article retrieved from: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110122/NEWS03/101220303/Report--needs-human-trafficking-law

Vermont should consider joining at least 41 other states and the United States in criminalizing the practice of , according to a report released Friday.

Limited …

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Will Massachusetts Finally Make Human Trafficking a Crime?

(C) 2011 Change.org. Entire article retrieved from: http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/will__finally_make_human_trafficking_a_crime

By Amanda Kloer

Massachusetts is one of only five states in the country that doesn’t have a law criminalizing . As a result, pimps who recruit children for …

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The Forgotten Hero of MLK Day

(C) 2011 The Examiner.  Entire Article retrieved from: http://www.examiner.com/glbt-events-in-providence/the-forgotten-hero-of-mlk-day

Across the country today, people of all sexes, races, religions and creeds united to memorialize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Locally, City Year Rhode Island, an AmeriCorps program here in Providence …

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WikiLeaks has human rights activists on alert

(C) 2011 The Star.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/918347–wikileaks-has-human-rights-activists-on-alert

In the bowels of every major embassy is a sound-proofed, secure room that is regularly swept for electronic bugs. There, covert conversations are carried on and secrets exchanged.

But the people …

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Maryland Poised to be the Next State to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

(C) 2011 Washington Post.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010605967_2.html

is, if nothing else, a waiting game.

Consider the position the District found itself in for years. A majority of D.C. Council members might have voted through a

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Miss New York Takes Stand for LGBT Rights

(C) 2011 NY Daily News.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/07/2011-01-07_a_crowning_vision__gay_rights_miss_new_york_takes_risk__backs_cause_for_miss_ame.html#ixzz1APIJSNny

Leave it to a New Yorker to shake things up at the .

Instead of sticking to something safe, Claire Buffie will be championing …

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