Why It Is Important Gay Marriage In DC Doesn’t Just Become Just Another Milestone

Last week saw gay couples in DC be able to apply for marriage licenses for the first time, and now today a real milestone has been reached – the first of these couple have now got married. Making DC the sixth state to allow gay marriage in the United States, many are believing the move [...]

LGBT Employment Discrimination Protection Rolled Back By Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell

State workers in Virginia who are gay and lesbian have had their protection against discrimination removed thanks to new Governor Bob McDonnell who on February 5th signed an executive order which prohibits discrimination:
“on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities,”

Acting to void the  [...]

Anger At New York Gay Marriage Ban Leads New York Lesbian To Marry Complete Stranger

On Wednesday, a New York LGBT activist Kitty Lambert and her long term partner Cheryl, attempted to apply for a marriage license at Buffalo’s City Hall. Telling the official that they were a committed couple with 5 children and 12 grandchildren and played an equal role in society, Lambert emotionally pleaded with the official to [...]

Iowa Republicans Attempt To Place A Ban On Gay Marriage…. And Fail

Iowan Republicans yesterday attempted to push forward resolution that would act to place a ban on gay marriage. Focused on amending the Iowa Constitution so that the state would only recognise marriage as being between a man and a woman, they proposed identical resolutions to both houses, however neither were given the opportunity to progress [...]

Richard Socarides Discusses How Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Marks History In The Making

Richard Socarides, a former advisor to President Clinton has appeared on BBC World News where he spoke about the policy of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Discussing how he and gay rights groups had been angered by how President Obama had promised quick action in his Presidential election but had failed to deliver in his first year, [...]

Even After 13 Years Of Service Gay Politician David Parks Still Faces Homophobic Abuse And Slurs

Last October saw a partnership law come into effect in Nevada that acted to give gay couples some of the legal benefits of marriage, and at the front of the pack pushing for it to be made law was State Senator David Parks, the state’s first openly gay lawmaker, who is now looking to win [...]

Massachusetts May Have Lost A Gay Right Ally But Iowa Now Has Five!

The LGBT community may have lost a gay rights political ally when Democrat Martha Coakley was beated by Republican Scott Brown to the Massachusett Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy, but take a look at the grass roots levels of politics and it’s quite a different story.
And that’s no more obvious [...]

New Anti Homophobia Policy In Quebec Sets Government Task Of Eradicating Homophobia And Heterosexism

The Quebec’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Kathleen Weil last month announced a policy, Québec Policy Against Homophobia,  which requires the government to remove all forms of homophobia and heterosexism from society.
The policy, whilst very bureaucratic in style, makes it very clear that a key outcome of the policy is that the Quebec government [...]

Mental Health Experts Testifies That Prop 8 Is Harmful To Gays and Lesbians

Yesterday’s testimony at the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco saw Professor Ilan H. Meyer, an expert in mental health issues among gays, lesbians and bisexuals from Columbia University,  provide expert testimony. Called by the legal actig for the same sex couples who brought the case, this was a move was to try and prove [...]

Yale Professor Rejects Prop 8 Lawyer Argument That Brokeback Mountain Proves Homophobia Doesn’t Exist

Yesterday saw Professor George Chauncey, a History and American Studies Professor at Yale, cross-examined by David Thompson in the Propositional 8 trial in San Francisco on what progress  he believed LGBT people had made popular culture and politics over the last two decades. Well qualified to speak on the issue, being the author of the [...]

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