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News Compilation- February 10
Three Ohio mayors join effort for marriage equality
Washington, D.C. - Three Ohio mayors are among the over 100 city leaders, including Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlins-Blake, participating in the group Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, which launched at the United States Conference of Mayors winter meeting on January 20. The United States Conference of Mayors approved a position statement in favor of marriage equality in 2009, and now Michael Coleman of Columbus, Edward Kelley of Cleveland Heights and David Berger of Lima join Republican, Democratic and independent mayors from across the country in their support of Freedom to Marry, a national organization pressing for marriage equality. Two other nearby mayors who have signed on to the effort are Paul Dyster in Niagara Falls, and Joe Sinnott of Erie, Pennsylvania.
News Compilation- January 27
Obama opposes restrictions on rights
Washington, D.C. - The White House, in response to a Washington Blade inquiry about the possible vote to repeal same-sex marriage rights in New Hampshire, said that President Obama "believes strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away. . . .While the president does not weigh in on every single action taken by legislative bodies in our country, the record is clear that the president has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples," said White House spokesperson Shin Inouye. "The president believes strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away."
News Compilation- January 13
United Nations lists LGBT rights abuses for the first time
New York City, NY - Nine days after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a strong address focusing on the human rights of LGBT people across the globe, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights turned in the agency’s inaugural, overarching examination of violations of rights faced by LGBT people across the globe. The December 15 report cited dozens of examples of failures and victories in the protection of LGBT human rights, pointing to murders and rapes in Europe and North America as readily as those in Africa and Latin America, but also noting positives in less-developed countries as heartily as it did those in so-called “first world” nations.
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