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Imagine you’re the parent of a transgender child attending public school. You and your child have already had more than your share of grief, knowing that you live in a culture that doesn’t always understand or welcome difference . . .
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3/10/17
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Kaplan stood with members of Pride For Youth in a crowd of more than 100 people outside the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan on Feb 23. The agency was one of the many organizations to sponsor a late-night rally at the National Historic Landmark.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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3/2/17
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Part seven in a series.
The halls of the Central American Refugee Center in Hempstead had gone quiet. The long lines of refugees from around the world seeking assistance with their permanent resident and citizenship papers were no more. Folks had gone home for the day, and only the sound of heaters clicking could be heard. The sun had set.
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/8/16
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In 1969, the Stonewall Inn was a hole-in-the-wall gay bar, a plain, two-story structure operated by the Mafia. No one would have suspected . . .
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10/20/16
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In honor of LGBT History Month and Coming Out Day, this past Wednesday members of Pride for Youth taped blank sheets of paper to each other’s backs before writing a trait they admired on each person’s sheet.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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10/19/16
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Some 600 leaders from Long Island will get together for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces annual IDF appreciation dinner on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. at the Fresh Meadow Country Club in Lake Success to salute the men and women who serve in the Israeli army.
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9/21/16
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Brittany Gianino entered the cage in her first mixed martial arts fight with a heightened purpose.When the Long Beach resident fought on June 18 before a packed house at Astoria’s Melrose Ballroom, the Orlando nightclub massacre, which occurred just six days prior, weighed heavily on her mind.
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By Andrew Coen
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7/29/16
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Two weeks after the city announced that it would host the Long Island PrideFest next year, the City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to update the city’s employee policy manual to include …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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6/22/16
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Nearly four days after a gunman killed 49 people and injured more than 50 at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., residents of Long Beach and neighboring towns gathered at Kennedy Plaza Wednesday night to honor the lives lost in the deadliest mass shooting in America’s history.
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By Ben Strack
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6/16/16
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Omar Mateen — the 29-year-old man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., last Sunday in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history— may have lived for a time in …
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By Julie Mansmann
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6/15/16
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