The U.S. Congress will reconvene next week. 365gay.com summarizes the status of three LGBT-rights bills: the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Deb Price also looks ahead to what 2008 could hold for LGBT rights around the country. Price also discusses why the
First, the Evesham School District in New Jersey said third graders (usually eight years old) are too young to hear children’s books featuring same-sex couples. Now, one family in Winnipeg, Canada, wants to transfer their twelve-year-old seventh grader to another school because the boy’s teacher has placed a photo of his same-sex spouse on his
Mary Cheney is ending her seven months of maternity leave and going back to work Monday. She’s taking a new job as a VP of strategic communications for Navigators LLC, “a full-service issue management, governmental relations and strategic communications firm” that has worked for that has worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain, among others.
A high school in Indiana banned a gay student from his prom when he arrived wearing a dress. Classmates came to his defense, and now, so has Lambda Legal. In Maine, the Bangor Daily News profiles the first same-sex couple in Penobscot County to do a second-parent adoption since they became legal in the state
(Originally published in Bay Windows, January 10, 2008) Family Under Fire Iraq War vet tells of struggles to raise two sons while closeted Five-year-old William and three-year-old Ryan are the children of decorated U.S. Army officer Cheryl Parker. Like other children of service members, they have dealt with cross-country moves and months without their mother
A few miscellaneous items for your reading pleasure, collected over the holidays: Abigail Garner points out an article from the Connecticut Journal Inquirer, profiling 13-year-old Rebecca Lazarus, the daughter of two gay dads and an active advocate for LGBT families. Also in Connecticut, the Hartford Courant featured Elizabeth Kerrigan and Joanne Mock, lead plaintiffs in
The Iowa Caucuses were last night, as most of you in the U.S. are well aware. Lisa Keen has an LGBT take on them at Bay Windows, and Visible Vote has a number of posts covering the event. The California Supreme Court rejected an appeal to deny domestic partners in California the same property tax
It’s the eve of the Iowa Caucuses. I can’t believe this is the first electoral event of the 2008 campaign, which seems like it’s been going on forever now. Rather than add to the flood of commentary, I decided instead to offer the Capitol Steps’ take on our partisan nation, “Super Zealous Radicals”: More specific
I’ll start the year on a light note, with a bit of post-season haiku: Spouse is back to work Son is still awash in toys Legos underfoot And reflecting on some of the year-end political news: Oregon waylaid New Hampshire civilized now Trip to Uruguay? Feel free to leave your own contributions in the comments.
Many LGBT residents of New Hampshire are starting the new year off right by uniting under the state’s new civil union law. The Granite State is the first to pass the law without legal challenge, as Seacoast Online notes. That’s progress, much as many of us still hope for full marriage. All of New England
