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COVID-19: Famed Gay Bergen County Nightclub Struggles To Survive COVID-19: Famed Gay Bergen County Nightclub Struggles To Survive
Covid-19: Famed Gay Bergen County Nightclub Struggles To Survive For 42 years, Feathers Night Club has served as a safe place for the LGBT community. But the River Edge establishment has been closed for four months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it's struggling to stay alive. In an effort to avoid closure, owner Paul Binnetti has launched a GoFundMe to help its survival, where more than $12,500 had been raised as of Thursday morning. Feathers, New Jersey's longest running gay club still in existence, opened on June 21, 1978. That was a time when being gay was not widely accepted," owner Paul Binnetti. Feathers was the first gay night club…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Hackensack BOE Trustee Responds To 'Homophobic' Emails Hackensack BOE Trustee Responds To 'Homophobic' Emails
Hackensack BOE Trustee Responds To 'Homophobic' Emails A Hackensack Board of Education trustee stirred controversy when she told district officials that she was not only disturbed by the state's new LGBT school curriculum law -- but felt it would be a waste of time for students, a new report reveals. The words "repugnant" and "disgust" were used by Frances Cogelia in emails to district officials expressing her sentiments toward the new state LGBT laws, which requires LGBT history be incorporated in middle and high school curriculums, OutInJersey reports. Cogelja sent several emails to Acting Superintendent Rosemary Marks saying the law was shoc…

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by Cecilia Levine