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The ACLU of Florida has said it plans to file a lawsuit against the Miami Beach Police Department on behalf of a former Miami resident who alleges officers falsely arrested him and subjected him to anti-gay harassment after he reported an incident of police brutality in a local park.

Civil rights groups are urging a hospital in central California to change its policies after employees briefly barred a lesbian from visiting her partner, who went into seizure at a gay marriage march.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday threatened to sue a San Diego County school that refused to let a student present a report on slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk until her classmates got their parents’ permission to hear it.