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StoryCorps recording rural gays and lesbians

Gay civil rights activist Jordan Palmer with the Kentucky Equality Federation brings StoryCorps to Kentucky to be archived in the Library of Congress. LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – The oral-history recording project StoryCorps is planning to spend two months in Whitesburg and Lexington recording pieces including one about struggling to find acceptance in rural, culturally conservative […]

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Gay-rights group offers support to attacked teen

By Mary Meehan A Kentucky gay rights group has offered financial support to the family of the Jackson County teen whose classmates have been charged with kidnapping and attempted murder in a case police have deemed a prank pushed too far. The Kentucky Equality Federation, an all-volunteer group, held a news conference in Lexington on

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Gay student won’t return to school after attack

A student at Jackson County High School won’t return to school after an attempted murder. Jordan Palmer and the Kentucky Equality Federation dispute it was a prank. Wave3 The Associated Press MCKEE, KY (AP) — The mother of a gay teenager says her daughter won’t return to Jackson County High School after an incident in

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