Tag Archives: San Francisco
Important LGBT wins in Texas and Fort Lauderdale
LGBT candidates got off to a good start this month, with strong primary victories in a gubernatorial contest, several Congressional races, and a mayoral match up in a city with a growing LGBT population. Dean Trantalis won office Tuesday, March
Unprecedented wave of anti-LGBT bills prompting vetoes, lawsuits in the states
Almost 200 anti-LGBT bills have been introduced to state legislatures this year and Lambda Legal and the ACLU have filed a federal lawsuit against the worst of them.
Speed Read: No religious exemption
President Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow that prohibits federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people but, importantly, it does not provide a new exemption to allow contractors to claim a religious-based need to discriminate.
Speed Read: Crowd cheers rainbows
The crowd at Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade Sunday cheered a group of gay men who walked behind a "diversity" float, tossing rainbow-colored beads to observers. Sam Adams beer makers and Heineken withdrew their sponsorship of the parades for excluding
Prop 8 ruling: crafted to avoid Supreme Court review
Calling Proposition 8 “remarkably similar” to Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 in 1992, a divided federal appeals court panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday (February 7) that California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the federal constitution.
DOJ sends top attorney to DOMA challenge
The Department of Justice sent its top civil rights attorney, Tony West, to argue against the Defense of Marriage Act in a federal district court in San Francisco Friday.
Manning protest interrupts Obama fundraiser
They didn’t get a lot of publicity, but a small group of women at an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco staged a brief protest in support of Bradley Manning Thursday—through song.
