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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

White House Looks to Identify Harvey Milk Champions of Change

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Three-and-a-half years after President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Harvey Milk, the slain San Francisco city supervisor and gay rights activist, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian award, the White House is looking to spotlight a group of outstanding LGBT elected and appointed officials to be honored as Harvey Milk [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

The Secret of Power

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | City Council Speaker Christine Quinn finally tossed her hat in the ring and came out as a candidate for New York’s top job. It’s a big deal. She’d be the first female mayor, not to mention the first dyke, in Gracie Mansion. It’s astounding that she’s gotten this far. Being the first [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Obama Administration Steps Up on Prop 8

Obama Administration Steps Up on Prop 8

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a brief in support of the two same-sex couples seeking to overturn California’s Proposition 8. Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court on March 26. The administration does not explicitly argue there is a federal constitutional right to marry, but in [...]

March 1, 20132 CommentsRead More

House Approves LGBT-Inclusive Violence Against Women Act

House Approves LGBT-Inclusive Violence Against Women Act

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a win both for advocates working to end anti-LGBT violence and for President Barack Obama, the House of Representatives has approved reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The House action came in a 286 to 138 vote on February 28. Eighty-seven Republicans joined 199 of the 200 Democrats in [...]

February 28, 2013No CommentRead More

BREAKING: Obama Administration to File Amicus Brief on Prop 8

BREAKING: Obama Administration to File Amicus Brief on Prop 8

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The US Department of Justice will file a brief in support of the two same-sex couples challenging California’s Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court on March 26, the New York Times and NBC News are reporting. The US government is not a party to the suit, which has taken the State of [...]

February 26, 20132 CommentsRead More

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

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, 20136 CommentsRead More

From Selma To Stonewall: Joining the Journey, the President Leads

From Selma To Stonewall: Joining the Journey, the President Leads

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | President Barack Obama made gay history in his second inaugural address on January 21. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law,” the president said, marking the first time the LGBT community was ever mentioned in an inaugural address, the most [...]

January 30, 20132 CommentsRead More

Will Supreme Court Rule on DOMA?

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, 20131 CommentRead More

Prop 8, DOMA Defenders Rely on Federalism

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, 2013No CommentRead More

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