81.   The national Log Cabin Republicans, a gay group, reaffirmed its support for Fong.

82.   The New York-based gay legal group is joining San Francisco attorney Ignatius Bau to represent Pitcherskaia.

83.   The Stonewall Democrats, like other major gay groups, have yet to endorse a candidate for president.

84.   The state courts said the gay group was entitled to march on the same terms as any other group.

85.   The Rev. Rich Tafel, an American Baptist minister, is president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay activist group.

86.   The two Democratic rivals have met often with gay groups during the campaign.

87.   The Stonewall Democrats have already endorsed Franklin, but other gay political groups may differ.

88.   There were demonstrations by gay groups.

89.   Until recently, they said, benefactors pressured them to replicate outreach strategies that had been effective among the well-mobilized gay groups during earlier stages of the epidemic.

90.   Ward asked the court to uphold a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that the exclusion of the gay group constituted discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.