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Advocate, The,  April 26, 2005  

Los Angeles, Calif.

After 67 years in existence as one of the nation's oldest continuously operating gay establishments, the Friendship bar, just off the notoriously gay Will Rogers State Beach near the Santa Monica city limits, closed its doors in mid April. The bar has hosted the likes of Christopher Isherwood and Marilyn Monroe, among many others.

Montpelier, Vt.

The Vermont house and senate closed another chapter in the opposition to the state's civil unions law when each voted March 17 to retain three supreme court justices who served on the court in 1999 when it ruled same-sex couples must be given the same rights as married heterosexuals.

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Nashville, Tenn.

The state's children and family affairs committee on March 16 voted down a bill barring gays and lesbians from adopting children.

New York, N.Y.

A state appeals court on March 15 struck down a law prohibiting the city of New York from doing business with companies that offer benefits to employees' spouses but not to their gay or lesbian partners.

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