Immigration Advocates Warn Against ‘Watering Down’ Reform

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Immigration Advocates Warn Against ‘Watering Down’ Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In response to a January 28 memorandum from eight US senators of both parties who are taking the lead on immigration reform, a number of local and national advocacy groups held a Manhattan press conference to voice fears about the risk of “watering down” what they described as the push for “real [...]

February 27, 201358441 Comment2013-02-27+20%3A50%3A30adminRead More

Dismissal of Celia Farber Libel Suit versus Richard Jefferys Upheld

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | An intermediate level state appeals court has upheld a 2011 trial court ruling dismissing Celia Farber’s lawsuit contending she was defamed by an email AIDS activist Richard Jefferys wrote saying that Farber and Dr. Peter Duesberg are “liars” for their assertions that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. The February [...]

February 27, 20135832No Comment2013-02-27+20%3A43%3A10adminRead More

Plaintiffs’, San Francisco’s Prop 8 Briefs Go to High Court

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Attorneys representing the two same-sex couples challenging California’s Proposition 8 have now filed their response to the brief submitted to the Supreme Court in January by those defending the 2008 voter initiative. In addition, the City and County of San Francisco, which was allowed to intervene as a co-plaintiff in the [...]

February 27, 201358302 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A35%3A40adminRead More

Obama Supreme Court Brief Attacks DOMA on the Merits

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Arguing that all government policies that discriminate based on sexual orientation should be treated by the federal courts as presumptively unconstitutional, the Obama administration has filed its brief with the Supreme Court in the Defense of Marriage Act case in which oral arguments are scheduled for March 27. The case was [...]

February 27, 201358284 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A31%3A54adminRead More

Man Killed in Newark Sex Sting Helpless When Officer Shot, Lawsuit Says

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | New documents filed in a lawsuit suggest that a sheriff’s deputy may have had DeFarra Gaymon under control just before he shot and killed the unarmed man during a 2010 public sex sting in a Newark park. “Officer Esposito chased decedent Gaymon to a pond located within the park,” wrote Christopher W. [...]

February 20, 2013574323 Comments2013-02-21+00%3A30%3A20adminRead More

Panetta Announces New Partnership Status, Benefits

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | In response to growing demands from advocates for gay and lesbian military service members, the Defense Department on February 11 announced a new list of benefits that will be made available to their same-sex domestic partners and spouses. The list is comprised of more than 20 benefits, including the Dependent ID [...]

February 13, 20135553No Comment2013-02-13+19%3A29%3A49adminRead More

Jeanne Manford, Late PFLAG Co-Founder, Honored by Obama

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Jeanne Manford, the Queens mother of two gay sons who co-founded PFLAG –– Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays –– has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second highest civilian honor. When Manford died last month at the age of 92, Jody [...]

February 8, 201355247 Comments2013-02-08+18%3A00%3A40adminRead More

Ed Koch: 12 Years as Mayor, A Lifetime in the Closet

BY ANDY HUMM | Ed Koch, New York’s mayor from 1978 through 1989, a period of enormous change for the LGBT movement, including the beginning and some of the worst years of the AIDS crisis, died on February 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 88 years old and died without ever publicly acknowledging his homosexuality. [...]

February 3, 2013544776 Comments2013-02-03+16%3A25%3A00adminRead More

Koch Administration Memos Detail Foot-Dragging on AIDS

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | When Mayor Ed Koch was running in the 1989 Democratic primary, speaking to voters at what is now called the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, he talked about the AIDS epidemic. “When the history of this era is written, I believe it will show that the eventual victory over AIDS [...]

February 3, 201354898 Comments2013-02-03+16%3A21%3A22adminRead More

Appeals Court Finds Right to Inmate Sex Reassignment

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A January 28 decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit may be the first by a federal appellate court to hold that an inmate may, under certain circumstances, have a right to gender reassignment surgery as a medically necessary procedure. A unanimous panel of that court ruled [...]

January 31, 201356222 Comments2013-02-01+01%3A56%3A15adminRead More

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