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Vermont House Passes
Gay Marriage Bill

Measure now headed for likely veto by governor

Apr 3, 09 2:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vermont House of Representatives has followed the state senate in voting to legalize gay marriage, reports the Wall Street Journal. The bill will now head to Gov. James Douglas, who has promised to veto it. The 95-52 House vote falls short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • Vermont • civil union • Defense of Marriage Act

 Sweden Legalizes Gay Marriage 

Parliament passes law 261-22

Apr 2, 09 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sweden’s Parliament legalized gay marriage yesterday, becoming the fifth European country to do so, CNN reports. Registered partnerships were already permitted in the country, but the new law will allow same-sex couples to officially tie the knot starting May 1. The only party to oppose was the Christian Democrats,... More »

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(AP) - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in a recent interview with the gay news Web site 365gay.com. The Democratic lawmaker, who is gay, was discussing gay marriage and his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide... More »

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gay rights • Antonin Scalia • gay marriage • Barney Frank • US Supreme Court

(Newser) - Sen. Charles Schumer now supports full marriage rights for same-sex couples, the New York Daily News reports. The New York Democrat, who was on the record as a proponent of civil unions, also wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which he himself voted for. “It’s time,... More »

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Congress • gay rights • gay marriage • Charles Schumer • Senate • New York • Defense of Marriage Act

US to Sign UN Gay Rights Declaration

Decision to back global decriminalization reverses Bush policy

Mar 18, 09 3:31 AM CDT
(AP) - The Obama administration will endorse a UN declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that President Bush refused to sign, reports AP. The US was the only western government that refused to back the declaration last year, triggering stinging criticism of the Bush administration. Some 70 UN nations still... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • gay rights • United Nations • homosexuality • homosexual rights • Obama administration

Prop. 8 Fix: Dump Legal 'Marriage' Altogether

Gov't could create civil unions, while marriage would be religious

Mar 16, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Confirmations, bar mitzvahs—religious institutions mark a number of rites of passage, but marriage is the only one the government has mucked with. As the heated debate over gay marriage continues, two professors ask: Why not take the government out of the equation? Officially, any couple could have a civil... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • marriage • civil union • marriage rights

Married California Gays Face Lonely Future

Banning gay marriage but allowing existing unions will leave couples on 'marriage island'

Mar 7, 09 7:38 AM CST
(Newser) - The California Supreme Court's expected decision to uphold a ban on gay marriage but still recognize existing unions will leave the state's 18,000 married gay couples in a strange situation, the Los Angeles Times reports. Couples are relieved that their marriages are likely to survive, but they see legal... More »

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gay rights • California • gay marriage • gays • Proposition 8 • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - It looks like California's ban on gay marriage will stand. Based on their questions today during arguments over Proposition 8, justices on the state's Supreme Court seem inclined to uphold the voters' decision in November, reports the Los Angeles Times. However, the justices also appeared willing to allow same-sex marriages... More »

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gay rights • California • gay marriage • court • Proposition 8 • Bill Maher Grid

 Penn Fights for 
 'Harvey Milk Day' 

Holiday would honor activist's birthday

Mar 3, 09 1:43 PM CST
(Newser) - Sean Penn today joined the push to recognize Harvey Milk's birthday in California, Variety reports. State senator Mark Leno is re-introducing a bill seeking a statewide “day of significance” on May 22, the birthday of the gay activist Penn won an Oscar for portraying. Schools would be encouraged to... More »

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gay rights • holiday • Sean Penn • Harvey Milk • Milk • Mark Leno • Bill Maher Grid

Chinese Soften on Same-Sex Marriage 

Pressure to marry
can trump opposition
to homosexuality

Feb 25, 09 10:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Gay men and lesbians took to the streets of Beijing in tuxedos and wedding gowns last week to voice their support for same-sex marriage, the Guardian reports. Acceptance is growing in China, which only a decade ago criminalized gay sex and listed homosexuality as a mental illness. But the Chinese... More »

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China • gay rights • gay marriage • Beijing • homosexuality • gays • gay parent • Bill Maher Grid

Iranian Lesbian Wins Asylum
in Britain

Refugee fled after girlfriend sentenced to death by stoning

Feb 16, 09 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - A woman who fled Iran for Britain after her girlfriend was arrested has won her battle for asylum in the UK. In 2007 Pegah Emambakhsh was refused asylum, but gay rights groups claimed that she would be executed if she was forced to return to Iran and led a campaign... More »

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Iran • gay rights • lesbians • United Kingdom • homosexuality • asylum • Britain • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - Wanda Sykes has been tapped to roast Barack Obama at this year’s White House Correspondents' Dinner on May 9. The lesbian comic will likely skewer the President’s anti-gay-marriage stance, but she has some skeletons of her own, the Los Angeles Times reports. After hearing about the engagement,... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • lesbians • stand up comedy • comedian • White House Correspondents Dinner • President Obama • Wanda Sykes • roast

(Newser) - So-called "womyn's lands" are quietly persisting across North America but face a cultural shift as modern gays embrace mainstream society, the New York Times reports. Founded in the 1970s to give lesbians man-free, safe, non-judgmental communities, the roughly 100 groups have seen membership dwindle and populations age. “In... More »

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gay rights • feminism • lesbians • settlement • rural area • 1970s • gays • gated communities • womyn's lands • insular

OPINION


 Lesbian Fiction's 
 Hot New Stars: 
 Secret Service 
 Agents 

Security more desirable than love: Thomas

Jan 22, 09 2:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Secret Service agents have become popular protagonists in lesbian romance mysteries because they embody traits readers covet, June Thomas writes for Slate. "They are the ultimate strong, silent type—they fade into the background without hiding, they keep their mouths shut, and they have your back," she... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • Secret Service • fiction • fantasy • mystery • romance • Lesbian

Opinion

Obama Has Met
Only Half of Rick Warren

Evangelical's split personality includes 'bland Pastor Rick' and arch conservative

Jan 19, 09 1:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Evangelical Rick Warren has fooled many Americans, Barack Obama included, with his lifelong attempt at creating a double personality, Amy Sullivan writes in Time. There's Pastor Rick—the apparently progressive anti-poverty, concerned-about-AIDS persona Obama invited to deliver the inaugural invocation, and there's the divisive staunch conservative the president-elect should... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • evangelicals • Rick Warren • conservatives • Proposition 8 • Inauguration Day

Maine Mulls Dueling Gay Marriage Laws

State could become third to legalize same-sex unions

Jan 14, 09 8:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A Maine legislator introduced a bill yesterday that would legalize same-sex marriage, redefining marriage as a union between two people rather than a man and a woman, Reuters reports. The legislation is sure to face fierce opposition—a Republican lawmaker is already drafting a bill to write the one-man-one-woman definition... More »

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 Obama Will End 
 'Don't Ask, 
 Don't Tell' 

Former supporters turned against Clinton-era policy

Jan 14, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - The end is near for “don’t ask, don’t tell,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Rolling back the 1993 policy keeping gay, lesbian, and bisexual members of the military from serving openly was one of Barack Obama's campaign pledges, but some feared he was backing off. But... More »

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gay rights • military • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • US military • gays in the military • homosexual rights • President Obama

Blackwell Calls Homosexuality
a 'Compulsion'

Would-be RNC chair says gays can just say no to rogue urges

Jan 13, 09 10:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Another candidate for the position of Republican National Committee chair may have put his foot in his mouth: Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio secretary of state, told gay radio host Michelangelo Signoreli that gays and lesbians suffer from a “compulsion” that they “can choose to restrain.” Blackwell... More »

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gay rights • RNC • homosexuality • gays • J. Kenneth Blackwell

ANALYSIS

 Obama's Early Picks 
 Disappoint His Base 

Cabinet tally, inauguration choice upset minority groups

Dec 23, 08 3:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has already slighted some of his most vehement campaign supporters. Women's groups are unimpressed by his Cabinet tally: 15 of 20 spots went to men. And the gay constituency is enraged that Obama chose anti-gay marriage evangelical Rick Warren to lead prayer in his historic inauguration. Instead... More »

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Hillary Clinton • gay rights • women's rights • Rick Warren • President Obama • Obama Cabinet

OPINION

 The Case for 
 and Against 
 Rick Warren 

WaPost does the dueling op-ed thing

Dec 23, 08 1:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Liberals should be neither shocked nor appalled by Barack Obama’s inaugural invitation to anti-gay pastor Rick Warren, EJ Dionne writes in the Washington Post. His colleague Richard Cohen begs to differ, however, so the two duke it out in their columns today. Cohen says Obama has decided to... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • religion • Christian right • evangelicals • inauguration • Richard Cohen • Rick Warren • President Obama

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