Search results for "Supreme Court civil rights act"
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Fierce Words, Little Power
SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama's name keeps coming up during the trial challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban. Wednesday, attorneys defending Proposition...
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Another Loss for Marriage
TRENTON, N. J. — Even before the votes were tallied Thursday afternoon in the New Jersey Senate on a marriage equality bill, advocates of the...
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''Ex-gay'' Mother Disappears with Daughter
In a long-running interstate dispute, an ''ex-lesbian'' in Virginia failed to show up last Friday to transfer custody of her 7-year-old daughter to the woman's...
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A Long Road to Equality
''By not fully asserting ourselves and trying to get the license, we would be agreeing with society that our relationship is less than other marriages.''...
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D.C. Attorney General Backs BOEE on Marriage
D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General filed a brief Friday, Dec. 18, responding to a lawsuit brought last month by Bishop Harry Jackson against the...
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Promised Fireworks at Hearing Fizzle
There were expectations that Republicans would challenge openly gay EEOC nominee Chai Feldblum Thursday over some of her writings. Those writings included how non-discrimination laws...
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Testy and Tearful
Tears, laughter, applause and praise to Jesus Christ filled the walls of the D.C. City Council Chambers Monday afternoon -- and far into the evening...
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Stage and Theater: Plays, Musicals and Performance Art
AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER Gunston Theater II 2700 S. Lang St. Arlington, Va. 703-998-4555 www.americancentury.org A Piece of My Heart -- The story of six women...
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I the People
When Mildred and Richard Loving were fighting Virginia for the right to be married though being of different races, a respectable judge in the commonwealth...
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Pro-Gay, Pro-Choice
As night fell on May 31, the candlelight vigils around the country for the murdered Dr. George Tiller included one at Dupont Circle. Several dozen...
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AIDS Quilt founder, Cleve Jones: New Gay March On Washington this October 11 [video]
”It is time to march again. Time to end this state-by-state, county-by-county, city-by-city struggle for equality and rip apart the patchwork of inequality that it...
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Turning Point
I listened to my boyfriend Patrick on the overseas call as he tried to wrap his French-African voice around the unfamiliar word, ''Iowa.'' The gay...
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Marriage Milestone
Same-gender couples married in states or countries where marriage equality is already the law will soon be recognized by the District as legally married, should...
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Holiday Handouts
There is no glee quite like the glee of children opening gifts at the holidays. Or so we've been told. Plenty of gay folks have...
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2008: The Year in Review
George Santayana, poet and philosopher, advised that, ''Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.'' And who better to take advice from...
