What constitutes a “suspect class?”
A piece that ran this weekend at the New York Times did a great job of analyzing the Defense Of Marriage Act and the issues at play when considering legal discrimination against gay people and how the...
View ArticleBreaking: Obama pronounces DOMA unconstitutional, asks DOJ to cease defending...
Some great news, for a change: Moments ago, in a sharp reversal of policy, the Obama administration announced that it believes that Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — which...
View ArticleHouse GOP spending $500,000 in taxpayer money to defend DOMA
Remember how the GOP’s top priority right now is creating jobs? Oh wait, nevermind. Remember how the GOP’s top priority right now is reducing the deficit? I mean, as long as it’s done mainly solely by...
View ArticleSenator Kirsten Gillibrand pushes for DOMA repeal
It’s been a hell of a couple of days for advocates of LGBT rights around here. On Friday night, the New York State senate sent a passed marriage equality bill to the desk of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who...
View ArticleBreaking: Democratic Party platform to include gay marriage plank
The Washington Blade reports that on Sunday Democrats approved draft language supporting same-sex marriage and other pro-LGBT positions as part of the Democratic Party’s platform. The process is not...
View ArticleQuick Hit: The woman behind the SCOTUS DOMA case
Today The New York Times published a profile of Edith Windsor, a friendly-looking 83-year-old New Yorker in pink and pearls whose fight against the Defense of Marriage Act, which “requires the federal...
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Amazing and moving photos of the amazing and moving lesbian relationship behind today’s DOMA Supreme Court Case. Boston College is threatening to take disciplinary action against students who...
View ArticleMarriage equality’s hip hop theme song
The rap duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis has broken records with their hits “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.” And now, with their pro-marriage equality hit “Same Love,” which features out lesbian Mary...
View ArticleLGBT immigrants may face difficulty applying for marriage-based visas
Folks who know me know that I have pretty complicated political feelings about marriage equality, but when DOMA died the first thing that I thought of was queer immigrants – particularly, that those...
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