RALEIGH, N.C. (CNN) – May 8, voters in North Carolina will head to the polls to vote on Amendment 1, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would define “marriage between one man and one woman” as “the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized.” According to same-sex marriage advocacy group…
LAS VEGAS – Lambda Legal has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Nevada on behalf of eight same-sex couples challenging Nevada’s constitutional ban on marriage equality, which relegates them to only a second-class status. “Every day that same-sex couples in Nevada are denied marriage equality, the government sends a message that…
WASHINGTON – Hard on the heels of Rick Santorum suspending his presidential campaign The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has announced its endorsement of Mitt Romney for president. NOM said it was making the endorsement to help focus social conservatives on the need to defeat President Obama in November. “We are proud to endorse Mitt…
PROVO, Utah (CNN) – The students featured in a video about being gay at Brigham Young University (BYU) are not in obvious violation of the honor code, according to Carri Jenkins, an assistant to the president of BYU. Jenkins went on to say that for the video alone, the students would not be punished. The…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced its involvement in a variety of activities around the 19th International AIDS Conference (known as AIDS 2012), which will be the first to be held in the U.S. in 22 years. HRC will be hosting panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt open for public viewing in…
Staff Sergeant Anthony Loverde will return to active duty in May 2012 following his dismissal from the U.S. Air Force in 2008 under the now-defunct ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ (DADT) policy – the military’s former discriminatory procedure that forbade gays and lesbians from disclosing their sexual orientation. This is the second time a service member…
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa attorney general’s office has continued to refuse an accurate death certificate to Jenny and Jessica Buntemeyer, a married Iowa couple seeking an accurate death certificate for their stillborn baby, Brayden. Lambda Legal and One Iowa, a gay rights advocacy group, have delivered more than 8,000 petitions to the Iowa…
WAYNESVILLE, Ohio – Lambda Legal has filed suit against the Wayne Local School District, Ohio on behalf of a student who was threatened with suspension from school if he wore a T-shirt with the words “Jesus is not a homophobe.” Last April, on GLSEN’s National Day of Silence, Maverick Couch wore a T-shirt to Waynesville…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — An Indiana man allegedly blackmailed teenaged boys into being his camera “slaves” by threatening to post their videos on gay porn websites, a criminal complaint said. Richard Leon Finkbiner, 39, admitted during an interrogation to victimizing at least 100 people, mostly boys 14 to 16 years old, an…
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner has appointed Robert George, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), to the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, which, according to the Commission’s chairman, addresses “the challenges of religious extremism, intolerance, and repression throughout the world.” The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has condemned Boehner’s…
