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LGBTQ+-related laws include but are not limited to: government recognition of same-sex relationships, LGBT adoption, sexual orientation and military service, immigration equality, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws regarding violence against LGBT people, sodomy laws, anti-lesbianism laws, and higher ages of consent for same-sex activity.

Sewers, Curfews and a Ban on Gay Bias

By | January 28th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

VICCO, Ky. — In a former pool hall that is now the municipal building for a coal smudge of a place in eastern Kentucky called Vicco, population 335, the January meeting of the City Commission came to order. Commissioners and guests settled into patio chairs, bought at a discount and arranged around a long conference

Officer’s lesbian spouse gets membership in Ft. Bragg spouse club

By | January 28th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

Ending a controversy that highlighted the unequal treatment of gay spouses in the military, an officers’ spouse club at Ft. Bragg, N.C., has offered full membership to the lesbian spouse of a U.S. Army officer.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gay-spouse-membership-20130126,0,2793917.story

Backed by State Money, Georgia Scholarships Go to Schools Barring Gays

By | January 22nd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

ATLANTA — As the nation works its way through the debate over vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public education funding, a quieter battle over homosexuality, religious education and school tax money is under way in Georgia.

Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/education/georgia-backed-scholarships-benefit-schools-barring-gays.html?ref=education

Gallaudet Reinstates Diversity Officer in Flap Over Petition Against Gay Marriage

By | January 9th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

The diversity officer, Angela McCaskill, was placed on leave in October after administrators became aware that she had signed a petition in Maryland circulated by a group seeking to overturn the state’s gay-marriage law. Voters upheld the law in November. Some people on the campus had said they were concerned that Ms. McCaskill was the