A simple proclamation, “We Are Here”, is printed on a souvenir button from Phoenix, Arizona’s first march for gay and lesbian rights. The cherished button and official program have been collecting dust in a memorabilia filled cardboard box since June 27, 1981. I’ve kept them all these years because the event was transformative and life-changing….
For 2015, Glendale, Ariz. hosts Super Bowl XLIX and, unlike in years past, caps off a season of controversial calls, wife beaters, a dog mishandlers quasi-redemption and, oh, yes, the NFL’s very first openly gay player. Sam he is. But if you want to chop through the thicket of information screaming for your attention on…
WASHINGTON—In the latest development following the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month to decline to hear any pending cases regarding same-sex marriage, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the federal government will now recognize same-sex married couples in six new states: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming. Last week, the attorney…
Today U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl ruled against Wyoming’s law banning marriage equality for same-sex couples. In Guzzo v. Mead, the National Center for Lesbian Rights sued the state on behalf of Wyoming Equality and four same-sex couples arguing that Wyoming’s ban on marriage equality violates the U.S. Constitution. Judge Skavdahl granted a temporary…
From Media Matters For America comes their latest post on the media’s coverage of Arizona’s anti-gay bill: Fox News dedicated its first segment on Gov. Brewer’s veto of Arizona’s anti-gay bill to an interview with one of America’s most notorious anti-gay hate group leaders. Feb. 26, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced that she had vetoed Senate…
With a stroke of the pen, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona has put an end to a unsettling period in her state’s history by vetoing a bill that would make it legal to discriminate against the LGBT community based on one’s “strongly held religious beliefs.” But that hasn’t stopped other states from forming or rewriting…
PHOENIX AND TUCSON, Ariz. – In an effort to remove discrimination from Arizona’s Constitution and win the freedom to marry for all couples in the state, Equality Arizona, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom to Marry have launched a campaign called Why Marriage Matters Arizona. Why Marriage Matters…
Mesa, Ariz. (CNN) — Two Arizona high school students were forced to hold hands in front of their classmates as punishment this week for fighting. Now that punishment is drawing criticism. The students at Westwood High in Mesa, Ariz. were apparently given the option to hold hands instead of being suspended. “Kids were laughing at…
Washington (CNN) – Mitt Romney told an interviewer Monday that he has never met with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of tough immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona who says he has been counseling Romney for years. Univision America Radio host Helen Aguirre-Ferre asked Romney, who spent Monday making a push for…
Transgender man, Thomas Beatie who hit the headlines 4 years ago when he became the world’s first pregnant man wants to have more children. Beatie who had his first sex-change operation 15 years ago has still got a womb and gave birth to three children with his wife of ten years, Nancy. Nancy was unable…
