The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the United State’s of America’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, today endorsed marriage equality at an meeting on Saturday, 19 May 2012. The organization had originally been founded in 1909 to improve the lives of the country’s African ( Read more... )

A wrongful-death lawsuit filed by an Illinois woman whose partner was killed in a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair could test the boundaries of legal benefits of same-sex unions recognized in one state but not in another.

Alisha Brennon, 24, was injured and her partner, Christina Santiago, 29, was among seven people killed when an outdoor ( Read more... )

Yet another evil, but (arguably) unintended and often overlooked consequence of marriage inequality and DOMA.

U.S. immigration policy ripping spouses from one another, and making American citizens choose to either live with the person they love, or in their own country.

So, apparently Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, plans to divert money from the Department of Justice to pay for the Republicans' fight to defend the constitutionality of DOMA.

I've commented a bit on it here.

But, the tl;dr of it is, "so this is what they considering worth spending money on!". :|

While the Obama Administration has said it will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, Department of Homeland Security officials have concluded that they must still enforce it.

Not that I'm a cynic or anything, but if you've been wondering why the Obama Administration has decided to stop defending the constitutionality of DOMA, after two years of vigorously defending it...

"President Barack Obama’s decision to stop fighting lawsuits challenging the Defense of Marriage Act has dramatically warmed his relationship with gay ( Read more... )

I don't know if this even qualifies as news anymore, but the Obama Administration is appealing a ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.

The Washington Post has an interesting article on the current struggle within the Republican Party over gay rights (a shift demonstrated in part by recent fundraisers). Does the GOP embrace converts to LGBT advocacy and risk alienating their base, or run the risk of becoming a sectarian party that younger generations abandon over entrenched ( Read more... )

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. A ruling from another federal judge in California (regarding Prop 8) is expected soon ( Read more... )

Judge Alex Kozinski, the chief judge of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ordered the Obama administration to stop blocking his earlier finding that the same-sex spouse of a court employee is entitled to spousal benefits. The employee in question was married in California during the period when same-sex marriage was legal here. Proposition 8 ( Read more... )