LGBT-related laws include but are not limited to: government recognition of same-sex relationships, LGBT adoption, sexual orientation and military service, immigration equality, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws regarding violence against LGBT people, sodomy laws, anti-lesbianism laws, and higher ages of consent for same-sex activity.
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Northern California Presbyterian governing body makes history by rejecting church’s official denunciation of minister who performed same-sex marriages. Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0516-minister-rebuke-20120516,0,1095731.story
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Virginia’s Republican-controlled House rejected the judicial nomination of a gay Richmond prosecutor early Tuesday morning, plunging the critical swing state into the middle of the national debate about the civil rights of gay Americans. Read more in The New York …
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WASHINGTON — Some of their best friends turned out to be gay. Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/politics/for-some-same-sex-marriage-is-not-politics-its-personal.html?ref=politics
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Recently, there has been a lot of talk about race and gender on American television. One thing can certainly be said, the conversation has not been dull. Internet blogs have been in overdrive, and the conversation has managed to find …
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WASHINGTON — When Bill Clinton was president, he waited until almost 1 in the morning in 1996 to sign a bill defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. He did not like it, but was unwilling …
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President Obama’s historic endorsement of gay marriage draws praise and cash from supporters but could carry a political cost in the South…. Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-gay-marriage-20120510,0,2388028.story
North Carolina’s image as a destination for gay and lesbian students and faculty members appears to have suffered as a result of the state’s overwhelming adoption Tuesday of a constitutional amendment that precludes any legal recognition of marriages, domestic partnerships, …
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President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage on Wednesday was by any measure a watershed. A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement, providing the most powerful evidence to date of how …
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s expected, North Carolinians voted in large numbers on Tuesday for an amendment that would ban same-sex marriages, partnerships and civil unions, becoming the 30th state in the country and the last in the South to include a prohibition on …
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President Obama, who is under mounting pressure to clarify his thinking on same-sex marriage after top aides publicly embraced it in recent days, will sit down for an interview with ABC News on Wednesday during which he is likely to …