Archive for the ‘Marriage Equality’ Category

Fernando Lopez
Here we are just days before the one year anniversary of the passage of Prop 8 and on the opposite side of the country,  a mirror reflection of last year is occurring in Maine. 
Once again, extremist and LDS front groups are laundering money, funneling it into the state, and now Maine is in the [...]

Esther Rubio-Sheffrey
 
(SAN DIEGO) LGBT organizations and non-profit coalitions across California are busy preparing to repeal Proposition 8 in next year’s election after a devastating and narrow defeat in November of 2008.
Their collective efforts have resulted in the creation of a new group Ð Restore Equality 2010. Their mission is to unite Californians in the campaign [...]

Let California Ring is the country’s largest marriage education effort of its kind
(LOS ANGELES) – Yesterday, a broad-based coalition re-launched Let California Ring, a comprehensive campaign to build support for marriage for California’s same-sex couples with a focus on work in communities of color. A joint effort of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations, funders, [...]

“There has been a steady drumbeat of courts recognizing long-established New York law as it applies to same-sex couples. It’s time to put this to rest – all marriages should be treated equally under the law.”
(Albany, New York) – Lambda Legal argued before the New York State Court of Appeals earlier this week on behalf [...]

(WASHINGTON, D.C.)  Oct. 9 /PRNewswire– On Saturday, President Obama is scheduled to give the keynote address to the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner in Washington, D.C. More than sixty-five thousand LGBT patriots will be listening to what Obama has to say about repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the law that bars openly gay and lesbian [...]

One in five LGBT adults also say the economy has influenced their  openness about sexual orientation with co-workers and colleagues 
 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, WASHINGTON, DC and ROCHESTER, NY– October 6, 2009 – According to the 2009 Out & Equal Workplace Survey, other factors being equal, 71 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) adults would prefer [...]