Results for: gay marriage
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How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
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Mary Bonauto, Lead Obergefell Attorney, on What Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Means for Marriage Equality
RBG’s death and ACB’s confirmation left a lot of LGBT folks reeling, wondering what Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation means for marriage equality. Are folks right to be worried? Yes, admits Mary Bonauto, the Civil Rights Project Director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the lead attorney in Obergefell v. Hodges.
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The Fall of Roe Is For All Of Us
There’s a lot of confusion going around about what this all means and as someone who worked in repro and/or civil liberties work for over fifteen years, I’m here to demystify the moment we’re in right now.
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Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Gay Wedding Website Designer in Another Blow to Equality
“Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent.
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Respect for Marriage Act Headed to Biden’s Desk After Passing the House
Loud applause broke out in the chamber when the vote was gaveled to a close.
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President Biden Signs Respect For Marriage Act Into Law
“We are reaffirming a fundamental truth,” Biden said before signing the bill. “Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.”
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Senate Passes Respect for Marriage Act, Here’s What’s Next
The bill will now move to the House, where it is expected to be voted on — and passed — as early as next Tuesday.
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Northern Ireland Makes History, Decriminalizes Both Abortion and Same-Gender Marriage
In a historic first both abortion and same gender marriage were decriminalised on midnight October 21st
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Gay at Work: Queer People and the Labor Movement
All these movements, whether for Black liberation, queer liberation, abortion rights, affordable housing, or labor, are intimately connected, and the struggle of queer labor organizers makes that abundantly clear.
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New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why
Most Americans support bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans youth and participation in sports for trans women — an agenda heartily endorsed by the media they consume.
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LGBT Labor History Is All Our History
There’s more to tell about the dynamic of what queer and trans people have given to the labor movement and what it’s given to us than can be said here, but the resources below are a good start!
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Julianna Margulies Sure As Hell Has No Business Speaking for LGBTQ People
Juliana Marguiles said on a podcast that “as someone who plays a lesbian journalist on The Morning Show,” she’s offended by LGBTQ+, Black and Jewish people supporting Palestinian liberation.
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The Yeses that Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans
Building power across the lines of cis and trans teaches me that there are many people who will fight alongside trans people to win a better world.
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Extra! Extra!: A New News & Politics Roundup Just for You
Autostraddle’s political news roundup is a new weekly series where we will watch the world burn down together and try, in our way, to put out one small fire. This is a space where Autostraddle writers will come together to discuss the latest current events and why we think they’re important. This week: impeachment proceedings, rights for trans kids in South Dakota, Pete Buttigieg and more!
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Real Candidates and Party Reps on What’s at Stake for Trans Rights in the 2020 Election
Autostraddle spoke to reps from US political parties – including third parties – to ask them directly about their commitment to trans issues and what we can expect from them going into this election.
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How to Talk to Your White Friends and Family About Racism
As annoying as it is, probably, to hear it, you really have to lead with love. It’s not our responsibility to love people who hate us or wish us ill, but if those people are your friends or family, it is yours. If you genuinely care about your family and want them to be and do better, let that ground your conversation.
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Booker and Warren Shine, Biden Grates at First-Ever GLAAD LGBTQ Forum
Last night, ten contenders for the Democratic nomination gathered in the First in the Nation caucus state for the LGBTQ Presidential Forum. Organized by One Iowa, The Gazette, The Advocate and GLAAD, the forum offered the most robust discussion of LGBT issues of the 2020 campaign thus far.
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Extra! Extra!: What The 2020 Election Says About America
We reflect on what the 2020 election says about America, what the ultraconservative majority in the Supreme Court has been up to, plus the pandemic and political situations unfolding around the globe.
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Phyllis Lyon, Incomparable Lesbian Civil Rights Activist, Has Died at 95
The Bay Area Reporter is reporting that Phyllis Lyon, lesbian activist and half of first legally married same-sex couple in California along with her wife Del Martin, has died in her home at age 95.
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Extra! Extra!: Making Sense of What’s Actually Happening with the Stimulus Package
Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.