‘Headlines’ Archives
Atlanta Eagle Raided
Police raided the Atlanta Eagle bar on Sept. 10 and arrested eight employees and underwear-clad dancers for allegedly providing adult entertainment without having the proper permit. The police also forced some 60 people facedown on the floor and kept them there while they were searched and their IDs were checked. "For up to two hours, some [...]
American Labor Movement Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Workers
If there were any doubts that the American labor movement stands strongly in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, they were set to rest the minute former United Mine Workers president Richard L. Trumka took the podium last Wednesday as the newly elected President of the AFL-CIO. Speaking at the labor federation’s [...]
HRC endorses march on Washington
The Human Rights Campaign said Sept. 14 that an Aug. 12 "statement" it made about the upcoming National Equality March in Washington, D.C., was an "endorsement" of the march. "Yes, we have endorsed the march," said Communications Director Brad Luna. "Yes, the release didn't say the word 'endorse' but clearly that release is an [...]
Intervention In Lawsuit Challenging Wisconsin’s Domestic Partner Law
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion before the Wisconsin Supreme Court today on behalf of five same-sex couples asking that the couples be allowed to participate in a lawsuit that will decide whether the state’s newly enacted domestic partner law violates Wisconsin’s anti-gay marriage amendment. Anti-gay activists have asked the [...]
DOMA repeal bill introduced in Congress
U.S. Reps. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Jared Polis, D-Colo., introduced a bill Sept. 15 to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, the Clinton-era law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages and affirms that states don't have to recognize other states' same-sex marriages. The "Respect for [...]
Campaign to undo Prop 8 in 2010 kicks off in San Diego
About 35 people gathered at the Tubman-Chavez Multicultural Center in southeast San Diego on Sept. 20 to kick off San Diego's part of the effort to repeal Proposition 8 in 2010. Attendees at the meeting -- which took place in a predominantly African-American neighborhood, far from the city's gayborhoods -- elected three regional representatives [...]
Calif. Assembly tells FDA to end gay blood ban
In a 41-28 vote Sept. 8, the California Assembly told the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to end the 26-year-old ban on blood donation by gay men. The ban applies to any man who has had sex with another man at any point in the past 31 years. "The law prevents innumerable gay and bisexual men who are otherwise healthy from contributing to [...]
Arizona state workers stripped of partner benefits
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a budget Sept. 4 that, among other things, stripped away health coverage for state employees' domestic partners. Some legislators had been working to kill the benefit since former Gov. Janet Napolitano approved it last year. Napolitano is now the federal secretary of homeland security. "This is a cruel and [...]
Mass. has nation’s lowest divorce rate
Massachusetts, the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, has the nation's lowest divorce rate -- and it's continuing to fall. The rate in 2007 was 2.3 per 1,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control's Division of Vital Statistics. Preliminary data for 2008 show the rate has dropped further, to 2.0. "Despite all the dire [...]
NGLTF endorses march on Washington
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has endorsed the National Equality March scheduled for Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. NGLTF joins a small number of other national GLBT groups -- among them the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches and Join The Impact -- that are formally [...]
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