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US Court Okays National Class Action Suit Against DOMA

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A federal district judge in Los Angeles has certified a nationwide class action lawsuit attacking the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act’s Section 3 in the context of the immigration rights of same-sex spouses. Section 3, currently under review by the US Supreme Court in Edie Windsor’s challenge to DOMA, [...]

April 24, 201366271 Comment2013-04-24+16%3A15%3A15adminRead More

Teacher, Accused of Webcasting Sex Tape, Can Sue

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A unanimous appeals panel of the New Jersey Superior Court has ruled that an out gay teacher forced to resign from a private boarding school is entitled to a trial on his claim that the school violated his rights under the New Jersey law barring anti-gay discrimination. The case involves what [...]

April 24, 201366253 Comments2013-04-24+15%3A00%3A07adminRead More

Officer Says Cruiser Extraordinarily Aggressive in 2010 Newark Park Killing

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The Essex County sheriff’s officer who shot and killed an unarmed DeFarra Gaymon during a 2010 public sex sting in a Newark park described the 48-year-old Gaymon as aggressive and repeatedly threatening him in a statement that was written three days after the July 16 shooting. “Gaymon walked within on [sic] of [...]

April 16, 2013657710 Comments2013-04-16+16%3A02%3A48adminRead More

Virginia AG Goes to Mat for Unconstitutional Sodomy Law

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, turned down on April 9 in his request that the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reconsider and overrule a decision by a three-judge appellate panel that last month found Virginia’s sodomy law to be unconstitutional on its face, may yet seek Supreme Court review. The [...]

April 10, 20136484No Comment2013-04-10+16%3A45%3A16adminRead More

Unprotected Sex Leads to Aggravated Assault Verdict

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The US Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the conviction of an HIV-positive airman on charges stemming from group sex activities that he and his wife engaged in during which he did not disclose his sero-status and did not consistently use condoms. The charges included failure to obey a [...]

April 10, 20136488No Comment2013-04-10+16%3A15%3A16adminRead More

Supreme Court Arguments Suggest DOMA May Be Doomed

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The Supreme Court, on March 27, heard oral arguments in Edith (“Edie”) Schlain Windsor’s suit challenging the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act’s ban on federal recognition of marriages by same-sex couples. As was the case the day before when the high court took up the challenge to Proposition [...]

March 27, 201363201 Comment2013-03-28+03%3A59%3A27adminRead More

No Clear Majority on Merits Evident During Prop 8 Arguments

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | On the tenth anniversary of oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas, the historic 2003 ruling that struck down laws against consensual gay sex, the US Supreme Court took up the contentious issue of same-sex marriage on March 26. Late last year, the high court granted the petition by the Official Proponents [...]

March 26, 201362304 Comments2013-03-27+03%3A15%3A03adminRead More

Immigration Reformers Keep Up Pressure on Senate

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight struggles to put together a legislative package for comprehensive immigration reform, the most important message LGBT advocates and members of Congress hoped to convey in a March 18 press conference came right at the top. “To Senator Schumer and the other senators who are writing [...]

March 26, 20136240No Comment2013-03-27+02%3A45%3A42adminRead More

Should We Forgive Bill Clinton?

BY DOUG IRELAND | So now, Bill Clinton told us this month in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, he’s against the Defense of Marriage Act he signed into law in 1996. We’re supposed to be grateful. But “the powerful odor of mendacity” (to borrow Tennessee Williams’ pungent phrase) has always hung over the ex-president, [...]

March 26, 201362615 CommentsShould+We+Forgive+Bill+Clinton%3F2013-03-27+02%3A15%3A50adminRead More

Elmo Puppeteer Accusers Use Novel Legal Theory

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Three of the four men who have sued puppeteer Kevin Clash are using a legal theory that asserts their cases should proceed despite the statute of limitations having run out because they only recently realized they were harmed by the sexual encounters they allege they had with Clash when they were underage. [...]

March 26, 20136266No Comment2013-03-27+02%3A00%3A28adminRead More

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