By MATT SCHAFER, Southern VoiceThe parents of an 11-year-old boy who they say killed himself after being taunted with gay slurs at school are holding a candlelight vigil tonight to remember their son.
Jaheem Herrera's mother and stepfather describe the fifth-grader at Dunaire Elementary School as a cheerful boy who was looking forward to returning to his native home of St. Croix after school let out for summer break. He killed himself Thursday.
“We were all leaving for the summer,” Norman Keene, the stepfather, said. “He was excited to play on the beach and see his friends. Tickets were bought and everything.”
“We w ...
The Whitman-Walker Clinic is asking donors and supporters to contact their D.C. City Council member and tell them “enough is enough,” just days before a second Council hearing probing the Clinic's finances.
D.C. City Council member David Catania (I-At Large) will question Donald Blanchon, the Clinic's CEO, about Clinic operations at the hearing set for April 27. Catania has charged that Blanchon and other Clinic officials were negligent in managing Whitman-Walker's finances and worked to force out longtime, openly gay staff.
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)The gay marriage debate shifts to Maine as sides for and against line up for a legislative hearing.
The Legislature's Judiciary Committee takes up the proposal Wednesday in a daylong hearing at the Augusta Civic Center.
Maine lawmakers eye the proposal two weeks after Vermont's House overrode a gubernatorial veto to enact a bill. New Hampshire's Senate is expected to take up a House-approved gay marriage bill by the end of April. Connecticut, Massachusetts and Iowa have been moved by courts to adopt same-sex marriage laws.
Among those expected to testify at Wednesday's hearing iing in Maine is Bishop Richard Malone of the Catholi ...
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