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Did the Kick Get Anything Started?

Did the Kick Get Anything Started?

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In early January of 2012, Ryan James Yezak launched a film project on kickstarter.com, the crowdfunding website. The feature-length documentary, “Second Class Citizens,” would take “an all-encompassing look at discrimination based on sexual orientation,” according to a website he has since established. The Los Angeles resident borrowed seven minutes of footage from [...]

May 8, 20132 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

As Pride Agenda Heads to Albany, GENDA Push Accelerates

As Pride Agenda Heads to Albany, GENDA Push Accelerates

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) prepares to lead roughly 700 LGBT advocates to the State Capitol in Albany for the group’s annual Equality and Justice Day lobbying effort on April 30, supporters of a decade-old transgender civil rights measure are stepping up the push to secure Senate passage this [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

US Court Okays National Class Action Suit Against DOMA

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, 20131 CommentRead More

Public Advocate Candidates Acknowledge Office’s Limits, Mostly Agree on LGBT Issues

Public Advocate Candidates Acknowledge Office’s Limits, Mostly Agree on LGBT Issues

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Early in a debate among four candidates for the Democratic nomination for city public advocate, the contenders had to concede that the office has little power beyond its voice. “As a public advocate, you’re unlikely to pass legislation and you have no money,” said Reshma Saujani during the April 17 event that [...]

April 18, 20131 CommentRead More

A Kinder, Gentler Dolan?

A Kinder, Gentler Dolan?

BY ANDY HUMM | Cardinal Timothy Dolan, asked on two Easter Sunday morning news shows about his message for the LGBT community, sounded open enough that the New York Times headlined its story “Dolan Says Catholic Church Should Be More Welcoming to Gay People.” On ABC’s “This Week,” Dolan said the Church “has to do better [...]

April 10, 201310 CommentsRead More

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