Sep

3

NY Court Upholds Recognition of Out-of-State Marriages of Same-sex Couples

Filed Under Court Cases, Gay Marriage, Legal, Politics |

Same-sex Marriage Court News(New York , NY) — The New York Supreme Court (Bronx trial court) has dismissed a lawsuit against Governor Paterson that attempted to challenge his directive, consistent with long-standing New York law, that state agencies respect out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples. Lambda Legal represented Peri Rainbow and Tamela Sloan, state employees who married in Canada. Read more

Sep

2

Gay Couple Settles Lawsuit against University of Hawaii

Filed Under Gay Students, Legal, Relationships, Sexual Bigotry |

Gay Hawaiian LGBT Student News(Honolulu, HI) — A gay couple not allowed to move back into family housing at the University of Hawai`i, Mânoa, has settled their lawsuit against the school. Read more

Aug

29

Iowa’s Married Same-Sex Couple Celebrates First Year of Marriage

Filed Under Gay Marriage, Legal, Relationships |

Iowa's Married Same-Sex Couple Celebrates(Des Moines, Iowa) — August 31st 2008 will mark the one year anniversary of the first marriage of a same-sex couple in Iowa after Lambda Legal’s victory in which a district court ruled that barring same-sex couples from marriage is unconstitutional. Read more

Aug

26

Virginia Court Affirms Vermont’s Jurisdiction in Same-Sex Couple’s Interstate Custody Dispute

Filed Under Court Cases, GLBT Parents, Legal |

Same-sex Court CasesFrederick County, VA – A state circuit court judge has rejected yet another attempt to overturn a Vermont custody order giving child visitation rights to a lesbian parent from a now-dissolved civil union. Read more

Aug

25

Peeing at the Border

Filed Under Censorship, Gossip, Legal, Police Beat, Sex, WTF? |

Gay Toilet News & GossipNews of the recent bust of pee porn at the Canadian-American border by Canadian border morality inspectors brought to mind several thoughts. Most of those thoughts weren’t really nice, a few were of outrage and there was also one thought of extreme satisfaction. Read more

Aug

19

California Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Lesbian Client Denied Infertility Treatment

Filed Under Court Cases, GLBT Equality, GLBT Parents, Health, Legal, Lesbian matters, Religion |

California Court Cases - LGBT Medical/Religious News(San Francisco, CA) — The California Supreme Court has ruled that a group of doctors cannot use their religion as a legal excuse for violating the civil rights of their former patient — an Oceanside lesbian — to whom they refused an infertility treatment based on their religious views about her sexual orientation. Read more

Aug

15

Former Kentucky Detention Center Officers Found Guilty in Teen Rape Case

Filed Under Court Cases, Crime, Human Rights, LGBT Youth, Legal, Police Beat |

Former Grant County, Kentucky Detention Center Officers Found Guilty of Civil Rights Violations in Teenager Rape Case! Read more

Aug

5

Governor Patrick: In Massachusetts, Equal Means Equal!

Filed Under GLBT Equality, Legal, Politics |

Last Tuesday it was announced that, the Massachusetts Legislature repealed the 1913 anti-marriage law that barred out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying there and that Governor Deval Patrick would be signing that bill. Governor Patrick signed the bill on Thursday, July 31st. Here’s the video: Read more

Aug

1

How People Define Sexual Joking in the Workplace

Filed Under Legal, Research, Sex, Workplace Equality |

Baton Rouge, LA — A new study in Law & Social Inquiry shows that how people define sexual harassment is directly related to the extent to which they view sexual harassment rules as ambiguous and threatening to workplace norms. Read more

Jul

31

Peace Corps Agrees To Stop Discriminating

Filed Under AIDS/HIV, Legal, Workplace Equality |

NEW YORK, NY — After pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Peace Corps has agreed that it will no longer terminate volunteers just because they have HIV. The ACLU demanded the policy change on behalf of a volunteer who was sent home from his post in the Ukraine and terminated after he tested positive for the disease. Read more

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