All posts tagged "kentucky"
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Federal court strikes down Kentucky ban on out-of-state gay marriage recognition
A federal judge Wednesday struck down Kentucky’s ban on recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions in a ruling that labeled the ban as unconstitutional. ...
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Wendell Berry, famed “man of letters,” counters critics of same-sex marriage at Baptist conclave
“The oddest of the strategies to condemn and isolate homosexuals is to propose that homosexual marriage is opposed to and a threat to heterosexual marriage,...
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Keeping Them Close
Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, I've been enjoying a longer-than-expected family visit to Kentucky for my Granny Bugg's 100th birthday party. As anyone who follows me...
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Pretty Pretty Bang Bang
So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here...
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Launching Pride
Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic....
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Grizzly Madam
If there's a lesson I've learned from family conversations over the past couple of years, it's that I should avoid talking politics. I probably should...
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In Lexington, a Sign of Inclusion
In Lexington, Ky., Jim Gray -- currently the vice mayor of the city -- defeated incumbent Mayor Jim Newberry in an election that would have...
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Small Town Boy
It was later in the evening when Sherry Dee grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out on the then-empty dance floor where some...
