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Will Supreme Court Rule on DOMA?

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | When the Supreme Court accepted the petition by the US solicitor general that it take up Edie Windsor’s lawsuit against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), it posed two questions that could derail any quick resolution about the 1996 law’s constitutionality. First, the solicitor general must address whether the federal [...]

January 30, 201354131 CommentWill+Supreme+Court+Rule+on+DOMA%3F2013-01-30+19%3A28%3A25adminRead More

Prop 8, DOMA Defenders Rely on Federalism

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | On January 22, attorneys defending California’s Proposition 8 and those defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against constitutional challenges filed briefs on the merits with the United States Supreme Court. Given what they were defending, the two briefs struck me as extremely well written and well argued, and though [...]

January 30, 20135409No Comment2013-01-30+19%3A21%3A38adminRead More

Gay Crown Heights Party Promoter Charges Police Brutality

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly 50 people marched on Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct to protest the arrest of Jabbar Campbell, a party promoter who says police assaulted him during an event at his Crown Heights home. The group characterized the January 13 police action against Campbell as an anti-gay attack. “We have to fight back against [...]

January 24, 201353523 Comments2013-01-24+20%3A30%3A45adminRead More

Evoking Stonewall, Obama Talks of Gay Equality in Inaugural Address

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | For the first time in a presidential inaugural address, Barack Obama, in beginning his second term in office, talked specifically about the LGBT community. And in a speech that clocked in at just under 20 minutes, the mention was more than merely incidental. “We, the people, declare today that the most evident [...]

January 21, 20135326No Comment2013-01-22+01%3A33%3A56adminRead More

Has Bloomberg Cooled on Quinn?

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The prevailing City Hall narrative in New York — from early 2006 through late 2012 — pictured a happy, stable, and mutually advantageous political marriage between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. A frequent critic of Bloomberg in her previous role as former Speaker Gifford Miller’s number two, [...]

January 17, 201351786 CommentsHas+Bloomberg+Cooled+on+Quinn%3F2013-01-17+14%3A24%3A46adminRead More

Pride Agenda Offers Christine Quinn Its Nod for Mayor

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a January 17 press release, the Empire State Pride Agenda’s political action committee announced its endorsement of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as New York’s next mayor. The release said the group “recognizes Christine Quinn’s unmatched record on LGBT rights over the last two decades,” including her leadership of the [...]

January 17, 201352453 Comments2013-01-17+14%3A21%3A15adminRead More

Jeanne Manford, Mother of PFLAG, Dead at 92

BY ANDY HUMM | Jeanne Manford, who died January 8 at the age of 92, is being hailed around the world for the simple but radical concept she put into action in the early 1970s — parents of LGBT people helping each other to accept their children and get over their own upset about their [...]

January 16, 201352003 Comments2013-01-16+17%3A50%3A39adminRead More

When the Gay Movement Had a Genius to It

BY PERRY BRASS | When I opened up the New York Times last week and read David Dunlap’s obituary for Jeanne Manford, who died at the age of 92, I recalled that she was the founder of P-FLAG, but most importantly that she was Morty Manford’s mother. I remember Morty so well. Who wouldn’t? It [...]

January 16, 201352062 Comments2013-01-16+17%3A45%3A11adminRead More

A Future Beyond Formal LGBT Equality

BY CHUCK COLBERT | If the LGBT movement is, at its core, a progressive struggle for justice and equality, then shouldn’t the gay rights agenda include issues of economics, race, class, and gender? In other words, is there more to gay rights and liberation than simply securing passage of non-discrimination laws and gaining the right [...]

January 16, 201352221 CommentA+Future+Beyond+Formal+LGBT+Equality2013-01-16+17%3A42%3A35adminRead More

What If No Majorities Emerge on DOMA, Prop 8?

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Both the Defense of Marriage Act and the Proposition 8 cases set for argument before the US Supreme Court in late March present questions of equal protection and — at the high court’s direction — of federal jurisdiction, as well. Most of the speculation I’ve seen assumes the court will [...]

January 16, 20135212No Comment2013-01-16+17%3A40%3A26adminRead More

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