GLBT News Headlines (T8T-6)

New CCH Tax Briefing Examines Impact of Supreme Court's DOMA Ruling

RIVERWOODS, Ill., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CCH has issued a new Tax Briefing: Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA, providing expert analysis and insights on key tax provisions affected by the Supreme Court's historic ruling. In a decision that will generate significant change in...

WeddingWire and GayWeddings.com Launch 'Wed We Can' Campaign

CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding marketplace, and GayWeddings.com, the leading niche-based wedding planning resource and boutique, are excited to announce the launch of WedWeCan.com, a new site that showcases both...

ProfNet Experts Available on Affirmative Action, DOMA, Anti-Spam Legislation, More

NEW YORK, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Below are experts from the ProfNet network that are available to discuss timely issues in your coverage area. If you are interested in interviewing any of the experts, please contact them via the contact information at the end of the listing. To...

Gov. Brewer Loses Latest Bid to Strip Benefits from Lesbian and Gay State Employees: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Her Appeal of Lambda Legal Case

6/27/2013

(San Francisco, June 27, 2013, 2011) â€" The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a request by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to review a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that maintains family health coverage for lesbian and gay State employees while the case seeking to permanently preserve the benefits works its way through the court system.

Nation’s Leading LGBT Advocacy Organizations Respond to Senate Bill, See Opportunities for Immigrants and Demand No More Punitive Measures

6/27/2013

This statement can be attributed to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLAAD, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, United We Dream and Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project, GetEQUAL, Lambda Legal, National Center for Transgender Equality, Equality Federation and National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance.

LGBT Advocates Team Up for Marriage Equality in New Jersey; Lambda Legal Plans to File Motion

6/27/2013

(Trenton, June 27, 2013) - A day after the Supreme Court's historic decision to strike down Section 3 of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Lambda Legal announced its plan to file a motion for summary judgment in New Jersey Superior Court on behalf of Garden State Equality and six same-sex couples.

Challenge to gay adoption dismissed

The Human Rights Commission welcomes a ruling from the Court of Appeal that paves the way for gay and lesbian couples to adopt children in Northern Ireland.

70 percent of Facebook users have gay, lesbian or bisexual friends

Roughly 70 percent of all Facebook users in America now have at least one friend who has identified him or herself on the social network as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the social network says.

Valley’s gay and lesbian residents rejoice in wake of DOMA decision

The valley’s gay and lesbian residents celebrated Wednesday’s historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a law that had prevented same-sex couples from receiving federal marriage benefits. Todd Chamberlin of Carbondale said he watched the news of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) decision with his partner of 17 years. read more

MassResistance admits its side did terrible job in court; wishes they'd been even worse

From the viciously anti-gay folks at MassResistance, the state group that's been focusing on marriage bans longer than any other state org: We are reluctant to sound unkind to the pro-family legal people who worked hard on these cases. But...

GLAAD: Animus? Who, Us?

Animus? Who, Us? [GLAAD]

You can now sit back and just listen to my book, you lazy slacker

My balls-y book is now available in audio form. You can get it from Amazon, iTunes, and Audible.com. With the latter, you can even get it free as part of a 30-day trial: IF IT'S A CHOICE…. [Amazon] The thing...

NOM's Roback Morse calls you and me 'enemies of the natural family' (#Animus #prop8 #DOMA)

In an email that she headlines "I'm hopping mad about Prop 8" and asks her supporters to write letters to the editor that specifically mention her (what ego), the National Organization For Marriage's senior affiliate leader says this about us...

GIF-ing NOM's stagnant graphic

The National Organization For Marriage wants you to know the number of states that have managed to hang on to discrimination over this past decade of monumental change: [NOM] But of course this fight, with its rapid pace of change...

Whoa, wait?! Dan Cathy seriously did it again?!

According to the Huffington Post, the business owner who infamously claimed marriages like mine invite God's judgement on the nation tweeted then deleted this in reaction to the Supreme Court decisions: Dan Cathy, Chick-Fil-A President, Tweets Response To DOMA Ruling,...

This moment in careless punditry: LGBT evolution = anti-LGBT revolution

Not content with simply penning an openly defiant letter that encourages his movement to completely ignore yesterday's Supreme Court rulings, the Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver is now beating the drum for an all-out American Revolution: [WND] (*Comment comes at end...

'Gay marriage activists didn't get what they wanted'

If you've looked at the anti-equality movement's spin regarding yesterday's marriage decisions, you've surely seen some variation of the paraphrased quote I use as my headline. The National Organization For Marriage, the Family Research Council, ProtectMarriage.com, the Alliance Defending Freedomâ€"they...

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