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Seattle Gay News S E AT T L E ’ S L G B T Q N E W S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T W E E K LY

Seattle #3 in same-sex LGBT youth experiences marriages, new study says with discrimination, Washington state also #3 harassment, and bullying in school

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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Seattle is #3 among US cities in the number of same-sex marriages, according to a new study by the Tax Policy Center, a

LGBT Youth – Photo courtesy of the Williams Institute

research group based in Washington DC. San Francisco ranked #1, followed by Santa Rosa, a city just north of San Francisco in California’s Sonoma County.

see STUDY page 12

LOS ANGELES – Members of Congress [on March 21] reintroduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) to protect LGBT students from schoolbased harassment, bullying, violence, and intimidation. The Williams Institute

is providing this fact sheet to assist with reporting on the issue of LGBT youth experiences with discrimination, harassment, and bullying in primary and secondary

see LGBT YOUTH page 12

Pride at Work joins HRC statement on IL-03 1,044 organizations to primary result demand changes to NAFTA

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by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Pride at Work, the AFL-CIO’s LGBT constituency organization, joined 1,044

labor, faith, and human rights groups to demand a replacement for NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement). NAFTA has been controversial since it

see PRIDE AT WORK page 11

Image courtesy of HRC

CHICAGO – [On March 21], the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released the following statement on the

primary election results in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District: “This should be a wake-up call to Dan Lipinski,” said HRC Senior Vice Presi-

see ILLINOIS page 11


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