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Media.www.SonomaStateStar.com – Kimmie Osborne
It was only a fifty-two percent majority that banned marriage between same-sex couples and challenged civil rights for many Californians. That slight majority allowed Proposition 8 to pass in Nov. 2008….
BayWindows.com – by Lou Manzo – Bay Windows Contributor
Holding hearings around the state, the Massachusetts Democratic Party is busy gathering input for its 2009 platform. With a goal of making the platform as “inclusive and transparent as possible…
ConcordMonitor.com – By Lauren R. Dorgan – Monitor Staff
A House panel split yesterday on whether to recommend a bill that supporters said would prevent discrimination against transgender people but that opponents, who dubbed the measure the “bathro…
Jamaica-Gleaner.com – Sherry-Ann McGregor
In last week’s article I set out the grounds on which the Supreme Court could grant a decree of nullity of a marriage. One such ground is that “the parties to the marriage were, at the time of the marriage, …
GatorSports.com – By Megan Rolland – Staff writer
Early voting begins today on a charter amendment that over the past year and a half has stirred up heated rhetoric among hundreds of political activists and raised thousands of dollars in campaign co…
LezGetReal.com – Bridget “Sei” McBride
There is a danger lurking in the movement to strip gender expression and gender identity from many bills before various legislatures. It is also the same danger lurking in the prejudices that a small minority o…
PioLog.net – by Maisha Foster-O’Neal – staff writer
Lewis & Clark College likes to wave its “We Are Progressive” banner. We have a functioning antidiscrimination policy, we have an active gay-straight alliance (United Sexualities, a.k.a. Unisex), an…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Andrew Davis
Military officials exaggerated the threat to unit cohesion and ignored research information when coming up with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” according to Dr. Nathaniel Franks’ new book, Unfriendly Fire: How the…
DailyUW.com – By Kaitlin Strohschein
Although there have been no reported hate crimes on the UW campus for the past four years, there is no way to know if that means there were no attacks or threats made against transgender students. That is becaus…
DelawareOnline.com – By J. L. Miller – The News Journal
Dover — The decade-old battle to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation began anew Tuesday with the introduction of legislation in the state House.
And this year, with the S…