Fast food chain Chick-fil-A, under fire in July for its financial support of anti-gay groups, stopped making those donations.

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Medeiros is also a leader of the Rhode Island chapter of Pink Heals, a nonprofit organization of emergency and rescue workers who drive pink fire trucks and pink police cars to raise money for cancer research and support groups.

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