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Andrew Lippa to star in world premiere of 'I Am Harvey Milk'
"I Am Harvey Milk," a new oratorio from Tony and Grammy nominee Andrew Lippa, will make its world premiere in June at the Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus 35th anniversary. The composer, who penned the...
Tags: Sean Penn, Entertainment, Laura Benanti, The Addams Family (musical), Arts and Culture
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Gay marriage supporters rally in Santa Ana ahead of DOMA hearing
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. Gay marriage proponents are riding into Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court discussion about the Defense of Marriage Act on a wave of support from Proposition 8 debates a day earlier....Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Marriage, Justice System, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage
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Gay marriage goes before the U.S. Supreme Court today
SAN FRANCISCO — As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly. Polling data consistently show that knowing a gay person is a...
Tags: Medical Research, CNN (tv network), Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin hopes for gay marriage win
SAN FRANCISCO – For Ohio senator Rob Portman, knowing that his son was gay helped change Portman's mind. For President Obama, talking with gay White House staffers and learning that his daughters’ friends had same-sex parents proved...
Tags: Medical Research, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Drugs and Medicines, Justice and Rights, Phyllis Schlafly
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Personal Weapon Control, Assault, U.S. Congress
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Letters: Guns and homicides
Re "Assault weapons ban advances," March 15 In supporting her bill to ban assault weapons, Sen. Dianne Feinstein recounts her experience as a San Francisco supervisor in 1978 with the senseless slayings of her colleagues Harvey Milk and Mayor George...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dianne Feinstein, Weaponry, Personal Weapon Control, Assault
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Renaming SFO after Harvey Milk might be less pricey than thought
L.A. NOWThe effort to rename San Francisco International Airport after slain civil rights hero Harvey Milk got a little wind under its wings this week, when the city's legislative analyst reported that the cost would be just a fraction of earlier estimates. After... -
Senate committee approves assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — A federal ban on assault weapons cleared a Democratic-run Senate committee Thursday in a party-line vote after its chief sponsor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over the 2nd Amendment. “I&...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, John Cornyn, Crime, Law and Justice
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Letters: Don't play with airport names
Re "Idea isn't flying," March 5 The latest proposal to change the name of an airport — this time San Francisco International Airport to the name of slain civil rights activist Harvey Milk — is getting a thumbs-down by the people. No wonder....Tags: Milk (movie)
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Russian lawmakers give initial OK to gay 'propaganda' bill
MOSCOW — The lower house of Russia's parliament on Friday approved in the first reading a controversial measure against the spread among minors of “propaganda” seen as supporting homosexuality. But the lawmakers put off until the...
Tags: Punishment, Parliament, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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'Lovelace' helmers to make Oscars documentary for TCM
EXCLUSIVE: The Academy Awards get a fair amount of coverage (and then some) from Web prognosticators. But a full documentary treatment is a much rarer thing. That’s the effort the decorated documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will...
Tags: AIDS, Amanda Seyfried, Movies, Allen Ginsberg, Entertainment Events
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New Jersey teen comes out during awards ceremony -- to cheers
There are a lot of ways to come out to people as something other than totally straight, but most of them fall under two categories: Person by person, where the ritual of admission is repeated as much as it needs to be, or all at once. The latter --...
Tags: Ceremonies, Culture, Social Media, Jodie Foster, Arts and Culture
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