The conservative and widely circulated New Hampshire Union Leader ran a full-page ad today advocating equal rights and marriage equality in the form of a letter to the New Hampshire legislature. The ad, sponsored by New Hampshire Freedom to Marry, features a letter from former Marine and self-declared conservative Craig Stowell in which he chastises…
Simon Hughes, a liberal democrat in the Coalition, predicts that UK government will allow same-sex couples to have a “civil marriage” with the same legal status as marriages between a man and a woman. Comments from Hughes follow moves by a liberal democrat minister to allow homosexual couples to have religious themes to their civil…
The Hawaii State House passed a groundbreaking bill Friday that protects the LGBT community from unfair discrimination against marriage equality. The bill provides that equal rights and responsibilities of married couples in Hawaii be afforded to thousands of non-married couples in the state, including same-sex LGBT couples. Equality Hawaii, the state’s largest LGBT civil rights…
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has made the military’s Don’t ask, Don’t Tell policy a key part of his Republican presidential nomination. In December, the former governor told Bryan Fischer, an anti-gay radio host, that he “would support reinstating” the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Yesterday, in an effort to show his allegiance…
The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute today announced a new summer program for promising LGBT college students interested in working with Congressional leaders in Washington, D.C. The Victory Congressional Internship is a competitive program seeking to place five well-qualified undergraduate students as Congressional interns in the LGBT Equality Caucus. Students who are elected to fill…
