No "queers" allowed.The once-pejorative term "queer" has for years been used by the gay community and in pop culture to positively describe things lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. . But the state of 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 apparently hasn't caught on. Officials there recently rejected a request to incorporate an activist group because it had the word "queer" in its name, and the petitioner, openly gay New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the graduate student and part-time paralegal paralegal n. a non-lawyer who performs routine tasks requiring some knowledge of the law and procedures, employed by a law office or who works free-lance as an independent for various lawyers. Christopher Barton Benecke, is suing on First Amendment grounds. "I've "always been kind of loud about my beliefs," said Benecke, 24, who wants to use his group Queer Awareness to "promote a healthy image of nonheterosexual people through tasteful advertisements and other media in order to ameliorate a·mel·io·rate tr. & intr.v. a·me·lio·rat·ed, a·me·lio·rat·ing, a·me·lio·rates To make or become better; improve. See Synonyms at improve. [Alteration of meliorate. prejudice." But the state forbids the registration of any name it deems "indecent or obscene or [that] shall ridicule or degrade" any people, groups, or belief, said spokesperson Peter Constantakes. The case is expected to be heard by the state supreme court on January 30 but could be settled beforehand. |
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