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issue: Lesbian Rights

You Can’t Have it Both Ways: Target and Best Buy Fund Anti-LGBT Rights Candidate in Minnesota

Posted on August 2, 2010 By National Organization for Women

Target and Best Buy, two companies with reputations for being progressive and pro-LGBT rights, have given $150,000 and $100,000 respectively to MN Forward, a political action committee (PAC) that supports Tom Emmer, anti-LGBT rights candidate for Minnesota governor.

ACLU: Mississippi School to Revise Policy, Pay Damages to Lesbian Teen Denied Her Prom

Posted on July 20, 2010 By now_admin

Miami Herald’s Steve Rothaus reports on the settlement between Constance McMillen, the girl who was denied the right to bring her girlfriend to prom, and her high school. McMillen has won her case, and her school will be implementing “a policy banning di…

Federal Diary: Ruling Says Marriage Act Can’t Deny Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses

Posted on July 13, 2010 By now_admin

Joe Davidson writes in The Washington Post: “When it comes to denying federal employees in same-sex marriages fringe benefits for their spouses, the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible. That’s the basic message in a ruling issued last week by a feder…

Amid Rulings on Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8 Case Could Have Larger Effect

Posted on July 13, 2010 By now_admin

The battle over same-sex marriage intensified this week after a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled unconstitutional the 1996 law that forbids the federal government to recognize gay marriages, a decision that could have repercussions in the District an…

Cheers to Shirley and Joan, and Jeers to Hawaii Governor

Posted on July 7, 2010 By National Organization for Women

While Shirley and Joan had already made their union official in various other ways — most importantly in their own hearts — this was the first time they became legally “married.” Sadly, the state where they live will not recognize this marriage and neither does the federal government.

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