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Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients. Policies addressed in the ratings include patient nondiscrimination, visitation and decision-making rights for partners, diversity training for staff, and nondiscriminatory employment...

The nation's first openly gay governor will take the witness stand in his own divorce trial Tuesday, barring a last-minute agreement with his estranged wife on alimony and child support payments. Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, failed to make any headway toward a financial...

It wasn't until Halloween when her 2 1/2-year-old son decided to dress as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz that Carol began to worry. Bradley had always had a preference for girls' things. From his earliest days he had chosen girls' dolls, identified with female characters and gravitated toward female...

A recent human rights ruling could severely restrict the ability of Christian organizations to discriminate against queer employees. A tribunal of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) ruled on Apr 15 that Christian Horizons (CH) — a Kitchener-based evangelical organization providing care for developmentally disabled people in group homes — could not fire an employee...

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