Tag Archives: Florida
Speed Read: Senate votes today
President Obama is preparing to sign the long-sought executive order protecting LGBT employees of federal contractors. The Senate will vote today on two openly gay nominees to the federal bench.
Speed Read: Bathroom battle cry
Opponents of Houston's newly passed non-discrimination ordinance are going for the jugular: focusing on fears that respecting the rights of transgender citizens means opening up women's bathrooms to "predators, pedophiles, and rapists." At the same time this second-round is underway,
Speed Read: Oregon makes 18
A federal judge's ruling struck down Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage Monday. A federal judge in Utah has ordered the state to recognize an estimated 1,300 marriages by same-sex couples there. And there's an interesting race heating up for the
Speed Read: ‘Tangible and intangible’
The Senate Judiciary Committee quietly advanced the nomination of openly gay African American judge Darrin Gayes Thursday. A federal judge in Indiana gave some relief from the ban on same-sex marriage to a lesbian couple in Indiana. Openly gay Congressional
Speed Read: 55 years together
Lawsuits challenging bans on same-sex couples marrying have been filed in three mores states: Arizona, Indiana, and Florida. And Uganda says the U.S. has suspended a significant amount of its AIDS funding over the U.S.'s displeasure with Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act.
Speed Read: Hell freezes over
President Obama and Russian President Putin talked Tuesday about the Olympic Games but apparently nothing about concerns for LGBT civil rights supporters visiting the country. Indiana's House Speaker took the highly unusual tact of moving an ant-gay bill to another
Crist apologizes for mistake on marriage ban
He's in a tight race for governor, but in an extraordinary interview, Florida’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist apologized for having supported efforts to ban on same-sex marriage on the ballot in that state in 2008.
GOP gays and Florida back Romney
R. Clarke Cooper, head of the national Log Cabin Republicans group, said Mitt Romney won an “informal vote” among the leaders of Florida’s three chapters on the Saturday before Tuesday’s primary. And voters in Florida’s Republican primary on Tuesday gave
LGBT issues again absent from Tea Party debate
There were no LGBT-related questions during Monday night’s Republican presidential debate (September 12), even though the driving interest behind the debate was the Republican Party’s far right-wing.
Florida Court Upholds Another Gay Adoption
A Florida court on Wednesday, October 27, upheld a lower court ruling granting an adoption to a lesbian. The decision comes one week after Attorney General Bill McCollum said he would not appeal another case that overturned the state’s ban
