Posted on 07 Jan 2013 at 7:45am
No Legislature in the middle of the country has approved marriage equality
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As weddings begin in 2 states, 3 more eye marriage equality
Posted on 04 Jan 2013 at 8:45am
Gays get hitched for the holidays in Maryland and Maine; legislatures in Illinois, Minnesota and Rhode Island are next in line to take up issue UPDATE: The Illinois Senate postponed a vote on marriage equality late Thursday until after the new Legislature convenes. Read more here. ANNA WAUGH | Staff Writer Same-sex couples began saying [...]
Court puts ‘reparative therapy’ ban on hold
Posted on 28 Dec 2012 at 11:30am
Emergency order blocks Calif. law from taking effect Jan. 1 so judges can hear arguments on whether measure violates First Amendment LISA LEFF | Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Dec. 21 put the brakes on a first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy aimed at turning gay minors straight. A three-judge panel [...]
House Republicans increase budget for DOMA defense to $2 million
Posted on 21 Dec 2012 at 10:30am
Nearly everyone knew the original contract to an outside legal team to argue the merits of the Defense of Marriage Act was low-balling the amount of money House Republicans would really spend. The original contract drawn up by the Republican-dominated Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) in April 2011 called for paying $500,000 to former Republican [...]
There’s still no ENDA in sight
Posted on 21 Dec 2012 at 10:15am
Federal bill banning anti-LGBT job discrimination unlikely to pass new Congress, and Obama says he has no plans to issue executive order LISA KEEN | Keen News Service The Employment Non-Discrimination Act has always been a top priority for the LGBT community politically. It’s been around in one form or another for almost 40 years, passed the [...]
‘History will vindicate them. It already has.’
Posted on 14 Dec 2012 at 11:00am
Jack Baker and Michael McConnell, gay couple behind 1971 same-sex marriage case, still together — and alive to see high court revisit issue PATRICK CONDON | Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — When Jack Baker proposed to Michael McConnell that they join their lives together as a couple, in March 1967, McConnell accepted with a condition [...]
BREAKING: Supreme Court takes Prop 8, DOMA cases
Posted on 07 Dec 2012 at 2:21pm
Arguments likely in March, with decisions to follow in June LISA KEEN | Keen News Service In a surprise development, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will review both the Proposition 8 case concerning a statewide ban on same-sex marriage and a Defense of Marriage Act case concerning a ban on federal recognition [...]
Gay couples line up for licenses in Washington; weddings begin Sunday
Posted on 07 Dec 2012 at 10:45am
Marriage equality also coming to Maine on Dec. 29 and Maryland on Jan. 1 as LGBT community celebrates fruits of 2012 election Associated Press SEATTLE — Two by two, dozens of same-sex couples obtained their marriage licenses in Washington state early Thursday, Dec. 6, just hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a voter-approved law legalizing [...]
COVER STORY: ‘A landslide for equality’
Posted on 09 Nov 2012 at 9:15am
LGBT leaders look to continue the momentum after historic election yields 2nd term for Obama, 1st out U.S. senator, marriage in 3 states FROM STAFF REPORTS It would be difficult to overstate the significance of Tuesday, Nov. 6, for LGBT civil rights. Democratic incumbent Barack Obama, who’s done more to advance LGBT equality than any president in [...]
The LGBT guide to Election Night 2012
Posted on 02 Nov 2012 at 9:00am
LISA KEEN | Keen News Service It’s a close race for the White House, a close race for Tammy Baldwin’s bid to become the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate, five unpredictable outcomes on marriage-related votes, and an openly gay caucus in Congress that could total either three or six by the end of [...]
