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Maryland Falls Short
Close, but no cigar. Despite large socially conservative Catholic and African-American populations, heavily Democratic Maryland was seen by many at the start of 2011 as...
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Becoming Law
The conclusion of a four-part series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act By the time the Senate passed...
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Edith Windsor’s Lawyers Slam BLAG’s “Failure to Respond” in DOMA Challenge
In a letter filed on July 18 with the magistrate judge overseeing the discovery — or evidentiary — portion of Edith Windsor’s ACLU-led challenge to...
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NCLR, MoFo, Abby Rubenfeld Challenge Constitutionality of Tennessee Law
Today, a group of lawyers led by Tennessee attorney and former Lambda Legal legal director Abby Rubenfeld is filing a lawsuit instate court challenging the...
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Federal Judge Applies Fourteenth Amendment to Sexual Orientation Job Discrimination Claim
Here’s the report from Harlan Spector at The Plain Dealer: CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal judge ruled Monday that a gay Cuyahoga County worker can...
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Maryland Senate Prez Tells Advocates He Will Expedite Gender Identity Bill If It Passes Committee
The Maryland Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee held a hearing on House Bill 235, the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, today, April 7, taking testimony in favor...
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News Analysis: The Changed Landscape, and the New Focus
Although the changed political winds in Washington, D.C., spell an end to any likely chance of the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act or...
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Virginia’s Randy Forbes trying to remove gay-inclusive ‘Parent’ from Fed forms
”Symbolism is important and this legislation seeks to preserve the sacred relationship mothers and fathers share with their children. Referring to parents as “Parent 1”...
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Guess Who's Coming to CPAC?
Andrew Breitbart does not play nicely with others. He's prone to endless fits on Twitter, pointing his fire hose of tweets at a person for...
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Bracing for Midterms
Despite significant disappointment – or even anger – from many LGBT advocates and activists about the lack of progress toward LGBT equality achieved in the...
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State of Play
Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, had a key legislative priority for the 111th
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Celebrating Victory
It's in my nature to urge caution when it comes to celebrating our political successes. Long experience has taught us that defeat is sometimes snatched...
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Lambda Legal Challenges OPM
Lambda Legal announced on Wednesday that it has sued the Office of Personnel Management in federal court in California over OPM's denial of same-sex partner...
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Gay History Month
In September, for example, the Library of Congress announced that a collection of materials from pioneering gay-rights local Frank Kameny, known as the Kameny Papers,...
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Inside Man
Earl Robert Merritt Jr., a.k.a. Butch Merritt, claims humble beginnings outside Charleston, W.Va. Had he remained in West Virginia, it's nearly certain his life would...
