Results for: gay marriage
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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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BREAKING: President Obama Announces He Supports Same-Sex Marriage (With Video!)
Obama has just announced he personally supports gay marriage.
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Lesbians Face Discrimination in Dollywood, a Vermont Inn and a SF Gertrude Stein Exhibit
Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my t-shirt
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Lesbian Marine Marries a Man, Lives With Girlfriend, Might Go to Prison For It
The story of how a lesbian Marine and her girlfriend managed to live off base and get married – just not to each other.
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Gays Get Hospital Visitation Rights, Live in the South With Kids, Can Marry in D.C.
“People grew up in church, so a lot of us lived in shame. What did we do? We wandered around lost. We married men, and then couldn’t understand why every night we had a headache.”
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What It Feels Like For A Lesbian Household: Recent Studies On Gay Families
Lesbian families are a thing – but to the scientific community, they still sometimes seem like an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in Melissa Etheridge. Here are some of the hard facts.
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Costa Rica Says Yes To The (Lesbian Wedding) Dress
Costa Rica’s solution to Prop 8 was to not let voters pass one — an attempt to have a voter referendum banning civil unions was shot down by the nation’s top court. We support this policy, and want everyone to learn a lesson from our friends and neighbors in Latin America.