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Cohabitant Benefits for Michigan State Workers Upheld

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A 2-1 panel of the Court of Appeals of Michigan, an intermediate-level appellate bench, has ruled that a State Civil Service Commission policy extending health insurance benefits to non-marital cohabitants of state employees does not violate Michigan’s 2004 anti-gay marriage amendment. The January 8 ruling came in response to a [...]

January 16, 20135217No Comment2013-01-16+17%3A35%3A08adminRead More

High Court to Consider Global AIDS Funding Restrictions

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The Supreme Court has announced it will review a ruling striking down the US government’s policy of conditioning funding under the US Leadership Against HIV/ AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 on non-profit recipients stating an explicit policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking and taking no actions inconsistent with [...]

January 12, 20135283No Comment2013-01-12+11%3A42%3A04adminRead More

Lucky 13: A Baker’s Dozen Things to Watch For in the Year Ahead

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | 1. New York Could Elect Its First Openly Lesbian or Gay Mayor Christine Quinn, who has represented Greenwich Village, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen since early 1999, has made skilled use of her perch as City Council speaker since 2006 to raise her citywide profile. She leads the Democratic pack in early polling [...]

January 5, 2013502329 Comments2013-01-05+17%3A40%3A51adminRead More

Spencer Cox’s Legacy as a Treatment Activist and a Gay Man With AIDS

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | When news surfaced on December 18 that Spencer Cox, one of the most important HIV treatment activists going back more than two decades, had died of AIDS-related causes at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 44, a haunting video clip of the Georgia native soon surfaced on Facebook. In an outtake [...]

January 5, 2013500314 Comments2013-01-05+16%3A04%3A57adminRead More

Lost Down the Memory Hole, Only the Echoes of Kafka Remain

BY SAM OGLESBY | In today’s post, I received a letter from the US Department of State. Emblazoned on the envelope in bold letters so that no eyeglasses were needed to read it was: AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Unfortunately, this has not always been the case. In 1968, I was terminated from my job as a [...]

January 5, 201349984 Comments2013-01-05+15%3A51%3A00adminRead More

A Challenge to Conservatives

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In his 2003 dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the US Supreme Court case that struck down sodomy statutes in the 13 states that still had such laws, Antonin Scalia, a conservative justice, excoriated the majority for undoing the justification for many laws. “Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments have relied on the [...]

January 5, 201349931 CommentA+Challenge+to+Conservatives2013-01-05+15%3A39%3A47adminRead More

Year-End Spate of LGBT Court Rulings

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | State and federal courts released a flood of new LGBT-related opinions in the last few weeks of 2012. The most significant among them are detailed below: The Montana Supreme Court divided 4-3 in a December 17 ruling over whether it could issue a declaratory judgment on a claim made by a [...]

January 5, 20134990No CommentYear-End+Spate+of+LGBT+Court+Rulings2013-01-05+15%3A23%3A04adminRead More

Log Cabins Change Tone Dramatically on Hagel, Now Likely Defense Pick

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 President [...]

January 4, 201349881 Comment2013-01-05+02%3A00%3A08adminRead More

Steven Goldstein Leaving Garden State Equality for Rutgers Post

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Steven Goldstein, who has served as chair and chief executive officer of Garden State Equality (GSE) since founding the New Jersey LGBT advocacy group in 2004, is stepping down from his post to become associate chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark. More than 200 LGBT civil rights measures –– including a highly regarded [...]

January 2, 20134834No Comment2013-01-03+01%3A50%3A05adminRead More