Cross country.1 SANTA FE Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. , N.M. David Trinidad American poet David Trinidad was born in 1953 in Los Angeles. In the early eighties, he was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan and Amy Gerstler. , 17, one of six men charged in the beating of gay men James Maestas and Joshua Stockham in a motel parking tot last February, pleaded guilty to all charges on August 8. Other defendants were considering plea deals at the time. 2 TOPEKA, KAN. Republican representative Willa DeCastro, who chairs the state's Joint Committee on Children's Issues, said a proposed ban on adoptions by gays and lesbians was a low priority, dropping tentative plans to take up the the issue in August. 3 NEW ORLEANS New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , LA. The Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans on August 11 said it had kicked the local Metropolitan Community Church out of a building it had leased to the gay church because of its stated support for same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable . 4 ALLENTOWN, PA. A state court on August 11 ruled that the city could pass an ordinance protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination, reversing a lower court decision in favor of four landlords who wanted to exclude gay tenants on moral grounds. 5 CONCORD, N.H. In response to a lawsuit flied by a man who was planning to undergo sex-reassignment surgery to become a woman, St. Anselm College in August said it fired senior computer programmer Robert Blanchette because of workplace misconduct, not because he had announced he was transitioning. 6 LAKELAND, FLA FLA Florida (old style) FLA Macromedia Flash (file extension) FLA Flash Files (file extension) FLA Fair Labor Association FLA Front Line Assembly . Gay couple Paul Day and Christopher Robertson returned to their mobile home on July 25 to find it torched and an antigay epithet ep·i·thet n. 1. a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. b. spray-painted on the front porch. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion