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Liz Krueger Pressing for Pot Legalization

Liz Krueger Pressing for Pot Legalization

BY NATHAN RILEY | Draft provisions of a “tax and regulate” marijuana bill is being circulated by State Senator Liz Krueger, an East Side Democrat. Washington State and Colorado enacted such laws last year in referendums that make the recreational use of cannabis legal. The voters in these two western states accepted the argument that [...]

May 22, 20132 CommentsRead More

Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “Today we have the power, the awesome power to make dreams come true,” said out gay Senator Scott Dibble, a Minneapolis Democrat, just moments before the Minnesota Legislature concluded its debate on a marriage equality bill on May 13. Later in his speech, he added, “Vote yes for love.” The measure [...]

May 13, 20135 CommentsRead More

Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings

Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE AND PAUL SCHINDLER | Port Authority police made two arrests in a May 10 assault on a gay couple outside a PATH station entrance at 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue. The attack came five days after two other gay men, Nick Porto and Kevin Atkins, were pushed to the ground and punched in the [...]

May 13, 20139 CommentsRead More

LGBT Advocates Wary as Senate Immigration Mark-Up Begins

LGBT Advocates Wary as Senate Immigration Mark-Up Begins

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate — with the Judiciary Committee beginning mark-up this week of a comprehensive bill developed by a bipartisan group dubbed the Gang of Eight — advocates for couples in which one member is not an American citizen remain concerned they could [...]

May 8, 20135 CommentsRead More

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

BY ANDY HUMM | While California’s 2012 first-in-the-nation law to ban therapists from trying to turn gay minors into heterosexuals is being challenged in federal court, similar legislation was just introduced in the New York State Legislature — though without the backing of a strong coalition of LGBT and mental health groups. Its prospects in Albany [...]

May 8, 20135 CommentsRead More

Legal Advocates Voice Concerns About ENDA Religious Carve-Outs

Legal Advocates Voice Concerns About ENDA Religious Carve-Outs

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | While the introduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in Congress in late April was greeted with cheers by many, four legal groups said that the bill’s religious exemption was an invitation to some employers to discriminate against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. ENDA would ban discrimination based on [...]

May 8, 20131 CommentRead More

Big Win for Lesbian Parents in Iowa

Big Win for Lesbian Parents in Iowa

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on May 3 that a state law providing that the husband of a married woman who gives birth to a child is the presumptive father is unconstitutional to the extent that it doesn’t provide the same presumption of parentage for married lesbian couples. The high court [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Fed Employee Grievance Ruling Dings DOMA, Oregon Marriage Ban

Fed Employee Grievance Ruling Dings DOMA, Oregon Marriage Ban

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A federal appeals court judge, hearing a grievance case brought by a US public defender, has ruled she is entitled to coverage for her same-sex spouse under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. In an April 24 decision, Judge Harry Pregerson, ruling on a claim brought by attorney Alison Clark, [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate –– with the Judiciary Committee holding hearings and more than 50 binational same-sex families descending on Capitol Hill this week for visits with 150 members of Congress –– advocates for couples in which one member is not an American citizen [...]

April 26, 201312 CommentsRead More

City Law Department Says Mayor’s Office Ordered Video Store Busts

City Law Department Says Mayor’s Office Ordered Video Store Busts

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Material unearthed in a federal lawsuit brought by a gay man who charges he was falsely arrested for prostitution in a Manhattan porn shop in 2008 suggests the Bloomberg administration was actively involved in directing such prostitution arrests at that time. Police arrested at least 30 men for prostitution in at least [...]

April 24, 201324 CommentsRead More

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