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Top Court Declines
For updates to this story, visit Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a request by Bishop Harry Jackson and others...
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U.S. Supreme Court Turns Down D.C. Marriage Initiative Case
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a request by Bishop Harry Jackson and others to hear their case seeking an initiative on marriage equality...
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SLDN Fights Congressional Inaction With Legal Fire
This morning, lawyers for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking the reinstatement of three servicemembers ousted under “Don’t Ask, Don’t...
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NJ High Court Turns Down Marriage Equality Case
With one seat vacant on the New Jersey Supreme Court, a three-three split decision on whether the high court would hear the challenge to the...
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Log Cabin Goes to Court
As others focus on the questions the military is asking troops, Log Cabin Republicans are focused on questions of another type, as the group’s lawsuit...
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Court of Public Opinion
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan left more questions than answers, since she quite properly refused to prejudge matters that might come...
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Following the Facts
SAN FRANCISCO -- Testimony in the Proposition 8 trial Tuesday began with emotional testimony by San Diego's Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders and ended with a...
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No Camera, Lots of Action
SAN FRANCISCO -- The trial to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court got underway Monday in San Francisco but the opening acts were upstaged in...
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Time To Act
I am a great proponent of making the case for marriage equality. As the battle in D.C. heated up this past spring and summer, I...
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White House nominates Chai Feldblum, long-time GLBT rights advocate, to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
” the most important effect of this will be when ENDA passes. The EEOC will be the agency responsible for issuing regulations for its enforcement....
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Iowa Court says yes to gay marriages! [video]
”The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution…. Equal...
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Civil Strategy
California voters spoke Nov. 4 when they pulled the plug on marriage equality for gays and lesbians -- won in the California Supreme Court less...
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George Takei says gay rights will prevail despite bitersweet election results [video]
”We feel that our marriage is valid. There is no language in Proposition 8 that says it’s retroactive. However, the bigger picture — we are...
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Parental Rights
Equal rights advocates in Virginia praised the Virginia Supreme Court's Friday, June 6, decision securing a non-biological mother's visitation rights to her 6-year-old daughter. The...
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A Supreme Victory
One down, two to go. Wherever one stands on last week's Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws -- with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's moving...
