Across the nation.Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Calif. After 67 years in existence as one of the nation's oldest continuously operating gay establishments, the Friendship bar, just off the notoriously gay Will Rogers State Beach near the Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. city limits, closed its doors in mid April. The bar has hosted the likes of Christopher Isherwood Noun 1. Christopher Isherwood - United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986) Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood, Isherwood and Marilyn Monroe, among many others. Montpelier, Vt. The Vermont house and senate closed another chapter in the opposition to the state's civil unions law when each voted March 17 to retain three supreme court justices who served on the court in 1999 when it ruled same-sex couples must be given the same rights as married heterosexuals. Nashville, Tenn. The state's children and family affairs Family Affairs is a British soap opera. The flagship soap on five, it was the first programme to air on the channel on March 30, 1997, the channel's launch night. The serial was broadcast in half-hour episodes, screening each weeknight. committee on March 16 voted down a bill barring gays and lesbians from adopting children. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y. A state appeals court on March 15 struck down a law prohibiting the city of New York from doing business with companies that offer benefits to employees' spouses but not to their gay or lesbian partners. |
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