Results for: gay marriage
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Daily Fix: California First State to Pay for Trans Inmate’s Surgery and More News Stories
Lesbian couples in Mississippi are challenging the state’s gay adoption ban, while Mexico found their gay adoption ban to be unconstitutional and Chelsea Manning is threatened with solitary confinement for “absurd” violations and more news.
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New Study with Conservative-Approved Methodology Shows Same-Sex Parents are Totally Legit
Even more proof that same-sex parents raise kids with good outcomes, a bathroom bill supporter in TN who’s a rampant sexual harasser, new data on police violence and more.
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Badass Black Queer Women Paved the Way for the Mizzou Movement
A rundown of everything that happened at the University of Missouri and the #ConcernedStudent1950 movement, the Mississippi Supreme Court issues its first gay divorce, the Nebraska Health and Human Services will list the names of same-sex spouses on birth certificates and more news!
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Lambda Legal Takes Up Fight For Lesbian Widow’s Same-Sex Social Security Benefits
Susan Summer, the director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal, put it simply: “SSA should not be telling widowed lesbians and gay men already grieving the loss of a spouse—‘you live in the wrong state so you don’t get Social Security spousal benefits.'”
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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Actual Experts Tell Supreme Court Gays Are Great Parents, Bigots Are Wrong
The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a lengthy report based on 30 years of researching explaining why banning same-sex marriage “for the children” doesn’t make any sense.
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Break Out the Champagne! Marriage Equality is Coming to France
As France gets closer to giving the nod to queer families, many French officials jump over their own prejudices to meet in the middle.
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Russia Wants to Ban Same-Sex Foreign Adoptions to Protect Children From “Trauma”
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to the Supreme Court to make changes to Russian adoption laws in order to prevent same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children.
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France’s Counter-Protests Warm My Frozen Heart
Same-sex marriage supporters take to France’s streets to show they can be louder and wittier than the conservative right.
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French Leader Offends Gays as He Attempts to Placate the Political Right
French President François Hollande spoke to a congregation of mayors on Tuesday, leaving many incensed. Instead of blaming others for their misinterpretation, Hollande acts like a human being and owns up to his mistake.
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Damnit France, Why Can’t You Be More Like the Netherlands?
Debates, protests and ridiculous videos over same-sex marriage aren’t limited to this side of the Atlantic.
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Trail Life USA Tries to Blaze A New Trail For Anti-Gay Scouting
Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!
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Check Out the First Binational Lesbian Couple In America To Be Granted Green Card Approval
A lesbian couple from Boulder, Colorado has been approved for the first green card granted to a same-sex spouses.
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Turning the Tide: How Activism to Protect Queer Students and Communities Works
How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.
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BREAKING: President Obama Announces He Supports Same-Sex Marriage (With Video!)
Obama has just announced he personally supports gay marriage.
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Regnerus Says Family Structure Study Wasn’t About Same-Sex Parents After All
Despite being held up as incontrovertible proof of the evils of gay parenting, Regnerus claims he “[took] pains in the study to say this is not about saying gay or lesbian parents are inherently bad.”
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Kansas Tries To Get Child Support From Sperm Donor Because Lesbians Aren’t Real Parents
A state in America has once again tried to eff things up for a same-sex couple!
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NOM Launches New Anti-Same-Sex-Parenting Propaganda Inspired By Sketchy Study
NOM was more than ready to misconstrue the findings of the latest study on gay families to make gay families look as bad as possible.
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Two Lesbian Moms Awarded Parental Rights, Almost As If Both Are Actually Parents
Two moms in Florida were awarded equal parenting rights, which is sadly actually a landmark occasion.
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Did You Hear The One About The Anti-Gay Politician Secretly Donating Sperm to Lesbian Couples?
Bill Johnson is a Republican politician from Alabama who campaigned on a platform against gay rights. He’s also been secretly donating sperm to lesbians. He has a “human need,” you see.