Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights.

两对同性恋伴侣提出诉讼，宣称选民投票通过的禁令侵犯了他们的民权。美国地方法院首席法官沃恩·沃克为此做出裁决。

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His widow, Coretta Scott King, spent many years before her death urging African-Americans to honor her late husband by recognizing gay rights as a civil-rights issue.

他的遗孀科雷塔·斯科特·金(Coretta Scott King)在去世前的很多年里一直在说服非裔美国人去认同他已故的丈夫把同性恋权利当作公民权利议题所作出的努力。

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When France created its system of civil unions in 1999, it was heralded as a revolution in gay rights, a relationship almost like marriage, but not quite.

法国在1999年颁布了同居法令，这是维护同性恋权利上的一次变革性创举，这种似结婚而非的关系得到了法律保障。

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It must also form alliances with other organizations, such as civil rights and gay rights groups, that have indicated they are willing to enter into a broader coalition to support this cause.

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It was Lewis who called Lawrence and persuaded him to speak to a gay-civil-rights veteran he had alerted.

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By doing so, the two were promised relative personal privacy, and given a chance to become a part of gay-civil-rights history.

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