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Billie Jean King on Stonewall 50 and LGBT Rights: ‘It’s Called Equality, and We Want It Now’ – The Daily Beast

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Billie Jean King on Stonewall 50 and LGBT Rights: ‘It’s Called Equality, and We Want It Now’  The Daily Beast

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast/Photos Getty In this special series, LGBT celebrities and public figures talk to Tim Teeman about the Stonewall Riots and their legacy. Tennis great Billie Jean King is the founder of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative. She won 39 Grand Slam titles, including a record 20 Wimbledon titles. She was outed in 1981, and is a passionate advocate for LGBT equality. When/how did you first hear about the Stonewall Riots, and what did you make of them? I was not as closely in tune with the community, or myself, in 1969 as I am today. I was in…

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Divided SC Methodists to weigh same-sex marriage, LGBT clergy bans at conference – The State

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Divided SC Methodists to weigh same-sex marriage, LGBT clergy bans at conference  The State

South Carolina Methodists convening in Greenville for their five-day annual conference will consider petitions aimed at settling a rift within the United Methodist Church over whether to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy. In February, the rule-making body of the Church affirmed and strengthened the denomination’s bans on “self-avowed practicing” gay clergy and same-sex marriage. Just more than half of the church’s 822 global delegates voted to uphold the bans, ending a special conference in a seemingly irreconcilable split. That decision came about after an alternative plan was narrowl…

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