News + Politics
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News Analysis: DOJ Avoids DADT Constitutionality Question, Argues DADT Repeal Act Changed LCR Case
As suggested this afternoon by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, the Department of Justice has filed its brief defending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in...
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DOJ Urges Continued Delay of LCR DADT Appeal, But Notes That Courts Have Found DADT To Be Constitutional
As suggested this afternoon by...
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White House Press Secretary Suggests DADT Court Defense Will Continue
Notwithstanding the government’s decision to stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act against constitutional challenges, White House press secretary Jay Carney suggested...
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The Fallout: DOJ Drops First Circuit DOMA Defense; Immigration and DADT Questions Raised
The fallout has been rapid and expansive from the Feb. 23 letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to House Speaker John Boehner regarding the government’s...
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Historic Maryland Senate Vote
The Maryland State Senate took a historic step toward marriage equality on Thursday, Feb. 24, voting in favor of a bill that would grant same-sex...
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Maryland Marriage Bill Passes Senate floor’s final reading 25-21
After about an hour of discussions from opposing views, Maryland’s State Senate voted 25-21 in favor of Senate Bill 116, The Civil Marriage Protection Act...
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The Next Test: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Attorney General Eric Holder declared in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that “the President and I have concluded...
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Death in Baltimore Focuses Attention on Anti-Transgender Violence and Discrimination
Equality Maryland spent the first half of Wednesday, Feb. 23 celebrating the second reading Senate passage of a bill that would grant same-sex couples marriage...
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Craig Ferguson tells John Waters: Transgender controversy made him feel ‘awful’ [video]
“I got into terrible trouble with some of the transgender community because they thought I was making fun of them because I was wearing a...
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Scissor Sisters perform on Letterman’s show [video]
The Scissor Sisters performed on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” The gay and gay-friendly members of the New York rock band are scheduled to...
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PBS’s ‘NOVA’ features gay synthetic biologist Jay Keasling [video]
This week on PBS you can catch “NOVA Science Now” which profiles Jay Keasling, an accomplished synthetic biologist in California. On the show, Keasling talks...
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Maddow discusses Obama Admin’s change on Federal gay marriage law [video]
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Prop 8 Lawsuit Lawyers Ask Ninth Circuit to Lift Stay and Allow California Same-Sex Marriages
Moments after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would no longer be defending challenges to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act,...
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Amendments to Maryland Marriage Bill and Third Reading Set for Feb. 24
Senate Bill 116, The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, passed a second reading in the Maryland State Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 23 with...
