Gay slur written on Edmonton employee's Valentine
And all the other people I work with are wonderful people,” he said in the post. Reached on Sunday evening, Shelley Bramhoff Sikorski said her son, who told her he was gay at 14, has been a loyal employee at the store while putting himself through university.

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No taxpayer funds to preach hate
For the past week the Oz has given a mouthpiece to the ultra-conservative Australian Christian Lobby in its campaign to have the schools program defunded. But yesterday Birmingham moved to shut down the hysteria about the so-called “gay manual” in …

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Why delaying Scalia hearings might make little difference
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the leader of the United States Supreme Court’s conservative wing … But the Supreme Court is a special case, and its recent rulings on gay marriage and Obamacare will have thrown that into even sharper relief.

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Barry Soper: Celebrating 30 years of gay pride
The Big Gay Out yesterday had John Key mincing with the extroverts … so the petition was discarded – which incensed the opponents even more. New Zealand has fortunately come a long way since the days when homosexual suspects were under surveillance.

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Tim Wilson resigns as Human rights Commissioner to pursue career in Liberal party
eyes political career Tim Wilson has announced his departure as Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner so he can pursue a political career. The openly gay policy analyst will seek Liberal preselection for Andrew Robb’s Victorian seat of Goldstein.

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S.Otago man third in Mr Gay New Zealand
Balclutha man Samuel White was the second runner-up at the Mr Gay New Zealand competition in Auckland over the weekend and was happy with his efforts. ‘‘I feel bloody good, actually,” he said. ‘‘The guy that won is a friend of mine from Wellington …

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Around the World
A magnitude-5.8 earthquake shook the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Sunday but there … nominated to head the U.S. territory’s Supreme Court as the first openly gay chief justice in the United States. • JERUSALEM — A knife-wielding Palestinian …

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Veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is branded racist and transphobic by anti-free speech zealot who refuses to share stage with him at university debate
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has been called racist … not to force others to further political views to which they conscientiously object.’ Australian-born Tatchell, 64, first sprang to fame as a left-wing Labour candidate, when he lost …

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NZ services sector activity falls for a second month in January
New Zealand’s services sector, which accounts for about two-thirds of the economy, slowed in January, with retail trade dropping. The BNZ-BusinessNZ performance of services index dropped 3.1 points to a seasonally adjusted 55.4 last month, the lowest level …

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