Trial on Gay-Marriage Ban Starts in California
Marisol Bello reports for USA Today: “As a San Francisco trial on gay marriage began Monday, unusual plans to show the landmark case on YouTube were nixed by the U.S. Supreme Court.”
issue: Lesbian Rights
Same-Sex Marriage Set for Big Day in Federal Court
Karl Vick writes for The Washington Post: “After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that ends at a U.S. Supreme Co…
NOW Celebrates D.C. Council Vote to Approve Same-Sex Marriage
NOW commends the D.C. Council for acknowledging that the LGBT people of this city have a fundamental right to marry. Same-sex couples should not be denied the protections and benefits that opposite-sex couples have always enjoyed.
NOW Congratulates Massachusetts Primary Winner Martha Coakley, Looks Forward to Feminist Candidate Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling in January
The National Organization for Women congratulates Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for her overwhelming victory in the Democratic primary in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. If Coakley prevails as expected in the Jan. 19 general election, she will be the first woman senator from the state of Massachusetts, and she will double to two the number of women in the state’s current 12-member congressional delegation. The NOW Political Action Committee proudly endorsed Coakley in her run.
NOW: Leading the Fight
NOW’s history and work on LGBT issues.
