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Clarke Cooper Sings New Tune as Log Cabins Blast Hagel

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Six days after former Senator Chuck Hagel’s apology for 1998 comments in which he decried a Clinton administration ambassadorial nominee as “openly, aggressively gay” was met with conciliatory responses from two leading national LGBT organizations, the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) came out swinging against the possibility the Nebraska Republican will be [...]

December 27, 201248047 Comments2012-12-27+23%3A26%3A21adminRead More

Scholars, Advocates Respond to Supreme Court Action

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As Arthur S. Leonard reported, the Supreme Court on December 7 announced on December 7 that it would review the Ninth Circuit’s Proposition 8 ruling and the New York-based Second Circuit’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), but in both cases it indicated it would hear [...]

December 19, 201247064 Comments2012-12-19+20%3A31%3A12adminRead More

United Nations Out for LGBT Rights at Sixth Annual Forum

BY ANDY HUMM | At the sixth annual United Nations conference on “Leadership in the Fight Against Homophobia” that marked Human Rights Day on December 11, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was flanked by singers Ricky Martin and Yvonne Chaka Chaka of South Africa. But his voice was the most rousing in unequivocally condemning homophobia wherever it [...]

December 19, 20124687No Comment2012-12-19+18%3A54%3A26adminRead More

Lessons from the Fight Against Interracial Marriage Bans

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | When Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it gave the federal government tools that were used to force schools, businesses, and state and local governments to stop discriminating on the basis of race. “The CRA of 1964 created or identified substantive rights in some sections, and created a vehicle [...]

December 19, 20124693No Comment2012-12-19+18%3A51%3A05adminRead More

US Courts Clash Over Reparative Therapy Law

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Ruling on consecutive days, federal judges sitting in the same US courthouse in Sacramento reached directly opposite views about how to analyze challenges to a new California law prohibiting licensed health care professionals — though not religious counselors — from providing “sexual orientation change effort” (SOCE) therapy to patients under [...]

December 19, 201247172 Comments2012-12-19+18%3A45%3A47adminRead More

Court Finds Realtors Discriminated Against Man With AIDS

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | US District Judge Samuel Conti ruled on December 3 that two New York realtors violated city law in their responses to a prospective tenant living with AIDS who sought an apartment with financial support from the HIV/ AIDS Services Administration (HASA). Conti awarded the plaintiff, Keith Short, $20,000 in damages, [...]

December 19, 201247223 Comments2012-12-19+17%3A42%3A40adminRead More

Task Force Concerned about Hagel at Defense Department, Citing LGBT, Women’s, People of Color Record

BY ANDY HUMM | President Barack Obama is widely reported to be leaning toward former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, a two-term Republican, to be his next secretary of defense, succeeding Leon Panetta, despite Hagel’s record of voting against LGBT rights, women’s reproductive rights, and issues of concern to people of color. During his Senate career, Hagel [...]

December 14, 2012465531 Comments2012-12-14+21%3A06%3A02adminRead More

Supreme Court Takes Marriage Cases, But Leaves Itself an Out

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The Supreme Court announced on December 7 that it would review the Ninth Circuit’s Proposition 8 ruling and the New York-based Second Circuit’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), but in both cases it indicated it would hear argument about whether the petitioners had standing to [...]

December 7, 201246059 Comments2012-12-08+00%3A13%3A52adminRead More

Nathan Schaefer’s Agenda

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Eighteen months after New York joined an elite group of states that have legalized marriage equality and less than 30 days after what he called “a very exciting election,” Nathan Schaefer faces a path that in critical respects is largely uncharted as he assumes the leadership of the Empire State Pride [...]

December 5, 201244992 CommentsNathan+Schaefer%27s+Agenda2012-12-05+19%3A52%3A49adminRead More

Gus Archilla, Marriage Equality Fighter Into His 90s, Dies

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Gus Archilla, who was partnered with his husband Elmer Lokkins for 58 years before the couple was able to legally marry in Canada in 2003, died on November 26, ten days before his 97th birthday. Lokkins, who is 93, survives Archilla, after a relationship that lasted for 67 years. Meeting just [...]

December 5, 201245181 Comment2012-12-05+18%3A39%3A23adminRead More

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