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Which state will win marriage equality next?
By Randy Shulman
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November 12, 2013
Read Justin Snow’s report on the Hawaii same-sex marriage vote here.
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A Columbus man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to an elaborate sextortion scheme in which he'd catfish gay men in multiple states -- including a minor -- and blackmailed them by threatening to publicize explicit photos of them engaged in sexual acts.
On December 19, U.S. District Judge Michael Watson of the Southern District of Ohio sentenced Omoruyi Uwadiae to 51 months in prison after the 28-year-old pleaded guilty to eight charges of cyberstalking.
Watson also sentenced Uwadiae to 24 months in prison for pleading guilty to seven counts of "making interstate communications with the intent to extort," or sextortion, and to 51 months for pleading guilty to seven counts of "unlawfully using a means of identification," a form of identity theft.
A gay teacher in Oregon was awarded $90,000 as part of a lawsuit alleging she was subjected to a hostile work environment and retaliated against for her support of LGBTQ students.
Eileen Brennock, a Spanish teacher at Mountain View Middle School, in Newberg, Oregon, claimed that the school's former principal, Terry McElligot, told staff at a meeting on September 10, 2021, that "it's not okay to tell kids it's okay to be gay or trans."
McElligot also reportedly told teachers not to display any Pride or "Black Lives Matter" flags or insignia to avoid "pok the bear."
Same-sex couples in Liechtenstein can finally marry after the country's new law legalizing marriage equality took effect on January 1, 2025.
The law, which passed in May of 2024, with 24 of 25 members of Liechtenstein's parliament in favor of it, was supported by the ruling parliamentary coalition, including the conservative-leaning Progressive Citizens' Party and the center-left Patriotic Union.
At the time, Daniel Seger, the spokesperson for the Progressive Citizens' Party, said lawmakers felt social pressure to pass the law. A 2017 online poll conducted by the Liechtensteiner Vaterland found that 69% of citizens supported permitting same-sex couples to marry.
