NEW YORK – As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates over the issue of same-sex marriage, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) New Yorkers gathered outside a different federal court house in Manhattan to call attention to a less visible form of discrimination against LGBTQ people – the NYPD's stop and frisk practices. In the trial Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, several New Yorkers and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenge that the Bloomberg administration's stop-and-frisk policy includes racial profiling and suspicion-less stop-and-frisks that violate the Constitution's protections against racial discrimination and unreasonable searches and seizures.

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