Tag Archives: Human Rights Campaign
Speed Read: Log Cabin attacks Polis
Log Cabin Republicans is running attack ads against an openly gay Congressman. Opponents of Houston's lesbian Mayor Annise Parker's proposed non-discrimination ordinance threaten to launch a recall election against her. North Dakota is left standing as the only state with
Speed Read: Idaho poised for Friday
A federal judge in Oregon is expected to rule any day now on that state's ban on same-sex marriage. And a federal judge In Idaho refused to grant a stay of her decision striking that state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Speed Read: 53% in work closet
A Human Rights Campaign study found that 53 percent of LGBT people hide their sexual orientation from almost everybody at work. Lesbian gubernatorial candidate Heather Mizeur held her own Wednesday night in the first Democratic primary debate for Maryland.
Speed Read: Aiken wins in N.C.
Openly gay American Idol star Clay Aiken appeared to have won the Democratic primary last night for a U.S. House seat from North Carolina. Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky says in Vanity Fair that Rutgers student Tyler Clementi's suicide
Speed Read: ‘The NAACP for gay people’
There is a potential for two ballot measures soon to repeal marriage bans in Ohio and Oregon. An effort to impeach Missouri governor for letting same-sex married couples file joint state tax returns appears to have little chance of passage.
Speed Read: NOM delay denied
A federal judge in Oregon denied the National Organization for Marriage's motion to delay hearing two lawsuits against the state's marriage ban. There's been a major pile-on of criticism for a new book out on the Proposition 8 litigation. And
Prop 8 book ‘Forcing the Spring’ triggers pile-on of criticism for ‘distortions’
There has been a dramatic pile-on of criticism around the release Tuesday of a new book about the legal case that challenged California’s Proposition 8. The book, Forcing the Spring, by New York Times writer Jo Becker, has been thoroughly
Speed Read: Push back in Mississippi
A Ohio judge has issued his decision striking down the state ban on same-sex couples marrying but indicated me may grant only a partial stay of the decision. The ACLU has filed a second lawsuit in Maine seeking recognition for
