Making It Better in the NFL
And here football fans thought, at least from our perspective, that one of the most important things the new NFL collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between team owners and players did was end the lockout and remove the ominous cloud of a possible...
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The Demise of DADT
Today marks the official end of the discriminatory policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." For nearly 18 years, DADT forced lesbian, gay and bisexual service members to painstakingly hide their true selves, as well as their partners and...
Categories: DADT, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, Don't Ask Don't Tell, LGBT rights, Melvin Dwork Tags:
Wear That Dress or Else!
That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook photo. Cear...
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Wear That Dress or Else!
That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook photo. Cear...
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Potential Relief for Same-Sex Couples Facing the Threat of Deportation
Over the past several months, there has been a steady drum beat of devastating news stories involving same-sex, binational couples facing the threat of deportation, including the recent example of a gay California couple in which one partner, the pr...
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Potential Relief for Same-Sex Couples Facing the Threat of Deportation
Over the past several months, there has been a steady drum beat of devastating news stories involving same-sex, binational couples facing the threat of deportation, including the recent example of a gay California couple in which one partner, the pr...
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NOM Marriage Pledge: A Discriminatory, Tone-Deaf Pitfall
The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been asking presidential hopefuls to sign a pledge stating, among other things, that they would: support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring recognition of marriages involving ...
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ACLU Sues Missouri School District for Illegally Censoring LGBT Websites
Can't say we didn't warn them. Back in May, as part of our Don't Filter Me project, the ACLU sent a letter to the Camdenton School District informing them that the web filters they use on school computers were unconstitutionally blocking access to ...
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The Congressional Evolution on DOMA
There is an intriguing story behind the recent Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) headlines, one that mirrors trends in public opinion surveys, but involves a group you might not expect — members of Congress who voted for the law in 1996, but now ...
Categories: Benjamin Cardin, Bob Barr, Charles Grassley, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, DOMA, Family and Medical Leave Act, Frank Lautenberg, Herb Kohl, Jeff Bingaman, LGBT rights, Patrick Leahy, Patty Murray, Respect for Marriage Act, Richard Durbin, same-sex marriage, Tom Harkin Tags:
My Daughter Isn’t Good Enough? Think Again, Wildflower Inn.
The ACLU and the ACLU of Vermont filed a lawsuit today against the Wildflower Inn, a Vermont resort that refused to host a lesbian couple’s wedding reception due to the owners’ personal bias against lesbian and gay people. Channie Pe...
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