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Check out the new issue of The Rainbow Times, out today July 5, 2012. We have a special issue for you with tons of Boston Pride photos and much more. In addition, you get to read about:

• Janet Jackson and her new Transgender project
• Brian Evans hitting it big at The Wilbur
• The best of healthcare as rated by the HealthCare Equality Index (Human Rights Campaign) and the institutions that made it and those states (New England ones too) that did not even participate
• Holyoke’s Mayor Alex Morse celebrating his first flag-raising ceremony last month
• More on the Affordable Care Act
• SB 1070
• LGBT Juvenile Correctional System
• CT Pride & its new plans for 2012-13
• Gordon Fox’s 2nd Turn Around on Marriage Equality 
• Much, much more!!

This and other important news and entertainment stories by picking up a copy of TRT anywhere in New England and/or by reading The Rainbow Times online. It’s free!

In a dramatic move with significant political and economic implications, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday (June 28) voted to uphold President Obama’s landmark health care reform law. The vote, at least in regard to the key conflict, was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the opinion and joining the four justices on the liberal wing.

The decision is a big relief to people with costly illnesses, including people with HIV or breast cancer. It is an enormous political victory for the Obama administration, because health care reform was Obama’s signature achievement thus far in his first term. And it creates an awkward issue for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to negotiate. Romney worked for a similar plan for Massachusetts, when he was governor, but has since joined the majority of Republicans in arguing vigorously against requiring citizens to buy coverage or pay a “tax” for not doing so. (More)