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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By LA Times Staff - Feb. 07 (Breaking News) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.

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Obama orders U.S. diplomats to increase efforts to fight LGBT discrimination abroad

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Dec. 06 (News Report) - President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to strengthen efforts to fight international discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals, saying he is “deeply concerned by the violence” against them in many parts of the world.

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44 - Politics and policy in Obama's Washington.

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Matt DeLong - Oct. 02 (News Report) - Speaking at an event hosted by a prominent gay advocacy group, President Obama on Saturday night chastised the his GOP presidential rivals for failing to speak up when some members of the audience at a debate last month booed a gay soldier.

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Lessons from a gay student's killing

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sandy Banks - Sep. 06 (News Report) - Neither family was satisfied when the jury deadlocked last week in the trial of an Oxnard teenager charged with murdering a gay middle-school classmate before stunned students in an English class. The parents of the dead boy, Larry King, stormed out of court when the mistrial was announced. The mother of defendant Brandon McInerney buried her face in her hands, slumped and sobbed.

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Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Dao - Sep. 04 (Investigative Report) - .By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

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Ban on enforcement of 'don't ask, don't tell' policy is suspended

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Jul. 16 (News) - A federal appeals court late Friday temporarily suspended its ban on enforcement of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, reversing course for the second time this month on how and when the Pentagon must stop discharging gay soldiers and sailors.

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Assembly passes bill to require contributions of gays in textbooks

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick McGreevy - Jul. 06 (News Report) - Textbooks and history classes in California schools would be required to include the contributions of gays, lesbians and transgender Americans under a proposal given final legislative approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Military: 3 Southern California Marines entered into sham marriages to get housing allowance

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 03 (News Report) - Military officials are charging three California-based Marine corporals with fraud and larceny for entering in a pair of sham marriages to collect housing funding, officials said. The military alleges that a lesbian couple — one a Marine, the other a civilian — decided to live together off base and wanted to collect the $1,200 housing benefit granted to married Marines.

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How the Same-Sex Marriage Deal Nearly Collapsed

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Barbaro - Jun. 27 (News Report) - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s deal with two lawmakers was just one of many remarkable behind-the-scenes scenes of recent weeks.

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National impact from New York marriage law: experts

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jessica Dye - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature on Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, legal experts said.

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New York Allows Same-Sex Marriage, Becoming Largest State to Pass Law

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Confessore, Michael Barbaro - Jun. 25 (News Report) - Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.

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Defense of Marriage Act called unconstitutional by bankruptcy judge

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Ruling is first to address the issue since the Obama administration announced it would no longer defend the law.

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Gay judge wasn't required to remove himself from same-sex marriage case, U.S. judge rules

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maura Dolan - Jun. 15 (News Report) - A federal judge's refusal Tuesday to invalidate last year's ruling against Proposition 8 established for the first time that gay judges may decide gay rights cases without having to defend their impartiality.

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Judge appears skeptical about throwing out Prop. 8 ruling because of jurist's sexuality

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maura Dolan - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Can a gay judge rule on same-sex marriage? Legal scholars and judges have debated for decades where to draw the line when it comes to potential personal conflicts of jurists, whether over race, gender or religion.

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Houston Clergy Council opposes Perry’s prayer rally |

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Kate Shellnutt - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Gov. Rick Perry’s upcoming prayer event has concerned progressive Christian leaders in Houston, who have written a letter criticizing the governor for excluding non-Christians, partnering with an anti-gay group and blurring boundaries between church and state.

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Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Scott Bronstein, Jessi Joseph - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live for. Siblings: Gay brother killed himself decades after treatment to make him more masculine

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U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lymari Morales - May. 28 (Poll) - U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian. More specifically, over half of Americans (52%) estimate that at least one in five Americans are gay or lesbian, including 35% who estimate that more than one in four are. Thirty percent put the figure at less than 15%.

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For First Time, Majority of Americans Favor Legal Gay Marriage

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Frank Newport - May. 20 (Poll) - For the first time in Gallup's tracking of the issue, a majority of Americans (53%) believe same-sex marriage should be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages. The increase since last year came exclusively among political independents and Democrats. Republicans' views did not change.

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DOMA defense in turmoil

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:53:34 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Apr. 25 (News Report) - The House of Representatives' courtroom defense of the Defense of Marriage Act suffered a serious jolt Monday after the law firm the House hired to argue the law's constitutionality in up to a dozen pending court challenges withdrew - and the former solicitor general heading up the defense resigned from the firm to stay on the case.

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Clement firm drops DOMA case

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - Apr. 25 (News) - In a real victory for supporters of same-sex marriage -- and marking what seems like real marginalization for its foes -- a major law firm has reversed course and will refuse to represent the House of Representatives in defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Gay marriage foes ask court to stop judge from showing Proposition 8 trial video

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Maura Dolan - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Former U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who has retired, said he has used the video from the Proposition 8 trial in talks to a class he teaches at UC Berkeley’s law school, to a legal group and in a lecture at the University of Arizona, which was broadcast on CSPAN.

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Slim majority back gay marriage, Post-ABC poll says

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Sandhya Somashekhar, Peyton Craighill - Mar. 18 (News Report) - A slim majority of Americans now support gay marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The results underscore the nation’s increasingly tolerant views about homosexuals, and parallel a string of recent legal and legislative victories for gay rights advocates.

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Supreme Court Rules For Military Funeral Protesters

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Mar. 03 (News) - Some may think their words are hateful but Wednesday the highest court in the land decided a Kansas church has every right to protest US soldiers' funerals.

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Obama picks gay male social secretary

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Amie Parnes - Feb. 25 (News Report) - And the White House social secretary job goes to ... a dude. On Friday, the White House announced that Jeremy Bernard, a California finance consultant for Obama's presidential campaign, has been named social secretary and special assistant to the president. Bernard, currently a senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador in Paris, previously worked as the White House liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities. He'll be the first male and the first openly gay White House social secretary and the third person to hold the post in the Obama White House. (He will replace Julianna Smoot who announced her departure in January. Desiree Rogers held the position first, but she resigned in the wake of a security breach when uninvited guests made their way into a state dinner in 2009.)

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Govt drops defense of anti-gay marriage law

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Pete Yost - Feb. 23 (Breaking News) - The Obama administration says it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage. In a statement Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder says President Barack Obama has concluded that the administration can no longer defend the federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. The Justice Department had defended the Defense of Marriage Act in court until now.

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