With a gay councilman a lesbian district attorney, a newly independent assemblyman who supports marriage equality and a straight U.S. congressman with a 100 percent score from the Human Rights Campaign, local LGBT political coverage has understandably focused on the race for San Diego mayor. While there is no doubt that electing an openly gay…
WASHINGTON – New data from the Pew Research Center shows marriage equality ranks last among the top concerns of voters ahead of the 2012 elections. Support for LGBT equality is increasing and issues pertaining to the LGBT community are no longer a “wedge” for voters, representing a remarkable turnaround in the last 8 years. The…
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…
Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in the state of Nevada in an effort to advance marriage equality in the state. The suit was filed on behalf of eight Nevada same-sex couples. Sevcik vs. Sandoval is the first entirely federal lawsuit brought on by an LGBT advocacy group according to MetroWeekly, despite a previously…
SEATTLE – The anti-LGBT group The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), has announced it will lead an international “Dump Starbucks” protest of Starbucks Coffee Company to give voice to consumers around the world who support preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The new protest campaign was announced after the recent…
WASHINGTON , DC – A scathing 42-page confidential document by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was uncovered yesterday by the Human Rights Campaign as a result of the investigation conducted by the state of Maine Ethics Commission and Attorney General. The investigation was due to a sworn complaint filed by Fred Karger, founder…
The fight for same-sex marriage has been lambasted by the right as the greatest threat to the institution of marriage since divorce. “It will destroy marriage as we know it,” shout the voices of fear and hate. Guess what? Those voices are potentially right. But achieving marriage equality for gays, lesbians and bisexual Americans in…
Repealing the unconstitutional Proposition 8 may not be on the California ballot in 2012, but history may still see this as the “Year of Marriage Equality”. So far, we know that six states: Washington, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina and New Hampshire will all be making important decisions about same-sex marriage this year. Throw in…
For the first time ever, the Roman Catholic church is endorsing civil unions, in the second historic reversal in only two weeks. The Roman Catholic church of New Hampshire suddenly endorsed civil unions on 19 March 2012, just 48 hours before a state legislature vote that has been pending for two years. That vote must…
