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Holder: Boy Scouts’ gay ban ‘relic of an age of prejudice’
Holder calls Boy Scouts' gay ban a "relic of an age of prejudice"
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Federal judge orders Utah recognize married same-sex couples
A federal judge ordered the state of Utah to recognize the marriages of more than 1,000 same-sex couples married in the state earlier this year...
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Obama, Kerry mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
President Barack Obama marked the 10th annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia with a renewed commitment to defend the equal rights of LGBT people....
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Obama judicial nominee faces heated hearing for views on same-sex marriage, other issues
A controversial Obama judicial nominee faced a barrage of questions over his views on same-sex marriage, abortion and the Confederate flag during his confirmation hearing...
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Marriage equality heads South
Marriage equality arrived in the American South shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday. That was when Kristin Seaton, 27, and Jennifer Rambo, 26, became the...
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Senators move to extend same-sex couples full Social Security benefits
Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a sweeping ruling last June striking down the federal government’s definition of marriage as between a man and...
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20 Great Interviews from the Pages of Metro Weekly
Everyone has a story. Since the beginning, Metro Weekly has shared those stories. More often than not, they’re in the sources’ own words. We’ve just...
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Updated Pentagon ‘Human Goals Charter’ includes gay, omits transgender
Top military officials Monday attached their signatures to the Defense Department’s updated Human Goals Charter that for the first time is inclusive of gay servicemembers,...
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The marriage-equality movement’s fight for credit
In the spring of 2009, Jo Becker, a reporter for The New York Times, began working on a profile of Ted Olson. Olson had recently...
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Next GOP generation pushing marriage-equality platform
Change was afoot in the Nevada desert Saturday. It was there, at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, that the Nevada Republican Party did...
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Virginia Plaintiffs Respond to Defendants’ Marriage Appeal
Supporters of marriage equality seeking to overturn Virginia’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, along with the office of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, filed appellate...
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‘Religious freedom’ backlash likely to continue as next chapter in LGBT-equality effort
Last August, the New Mexico Supreme Court handed down a ruling that inflamed the religious right. In a unanimous decision, the state’s highest court found...
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Holder gives state attorneys general the OK to stop defending gay-marriage bans
Attorney General Eric Holder appeared to give state attorneys general the green light to stop defending bans on same-sex marriage during a speech in Washington...
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Justice Department to expand federal recognition of same-sex marriages
The Justice Department will further expand federal recognition of same-sex marriages “to the greatest extent possible under the law,” Attorney General Eric Holder announced in...
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Judge in Virginia marriage-ban case says she’ll issue ruling ‘soon’
U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen today told parties in the case of Bostic v. Rainey, which is challenging Virginia’s constitutional amendment banning...
