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Justice Department Intervenes In Gay Rights Suit
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National Public Radio
1/15/2010
"For the first time in a decade, Justice Department lawyers have moved to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of a gay high school student who was beaten up for being effeminate.
"...'We haven't seen this kind of involvement in quite some time,' says Hayley Gorenberg of Lambda Legal, a national gay rights legal organization. 'It's a long time coming, and we really need it.'"
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