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Gay marriage opponents feel alienated, misunderstood

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:50+00:00 June 27th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

Pastor Jim Franklin was one of the leading

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voices supporting California’s 2008 gay marriage ban. He spoke passionately about the importance of traditional marriage from the pulpit of Cornerstone Church in Fresno and led rallies against gay unions.

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Inspired by Collins, a High School Coach Comes Out

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:50+00:00 June 27th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

When the soccer player Robbie Rogers and the N.B.A. center Jason Collins recently came out as gay professional athletes, it was hailed by many as a historic time. Barriers had been broken. Attitudes in pro sports locker rooms were being changed.

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Federal Court Speaks, but Couples Still Face State Legal Patchwork

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:50+00:00 June 27th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — Consider two women living at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., who travel to Maine to get married. When they get back to the base, the military will now recognize their marriage, affording them a variety of benefits that would go to any married couple, like health care and a housing allowance.

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Two Major Rulings Back Gay Marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:51+00:00 June 26th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — Married gay and lesbian couples are entitled to federal benefits, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a major victory for the gay rights movement.

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Gay marriage ruling: Supreme Court finds DOMA unconstitutional

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:51+00:00 June 26th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday and declared that same-sex couples who are legally married deserve equal rights to the benefits under federal law that go to all other married couples.

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Prop. 8: Supreme Court clears way for gay marriage in California

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:51+00:00 June 26th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for same-sex marriages to resume in California as the justices, in a procedural ruling, turned away the defenders of Proposition 8.

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Rights Unit Finds Bias Against Transgender Student

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:52+00:00 June 24th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

DENVER — A Colorado school district discriminated against a transgender first grader when it refused to let her use the girl’s bathroom, the state’s civil rights division has determined, a decision gay and transgender advocates say will have an indelible impact on how such cases are handled in the future.

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Strategist Out of Closet and Into Fray, This Time for Gay Marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:43+00:00 June 20th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

As the Supreme Court considers overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriage, gay people await a ruling that could change their lives. But the case has already transformed one gay man: Ken Mehlman, the once-closeted Republican operative who orchestrated President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election on a platform that included opposition to same-sex marriage.

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Transgender school bill under fire from conservatives

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:43+00:00 June 20th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

Conservatives are crying foul over a bill that would allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with, rather than the sex they were born into.

Read more in the Daily News of Los Angeles.

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Same-sex marriage, affirmative action rulings all but certain next week

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:20:43+00:00 June 20th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s eagerly awaited decisions on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and voting rights will have to wait until next week, as the justices finished this week’s public session with three rulings of much more limited interest.

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