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Friday, May 16
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Source: Seattle Times , Seattle Post-Intelligencer CA marriage case Seattle -- Activists in Washington cheered Thursday's decision by California's highest court to grant full equality in marriage to all couples in that state, but were also heartened by the slow but steady progress toward equality since this state's highest court ruled that gay and lesbian couples are not entitled to full equality. "This is huge. California is really going to change the landscape," said Joshua Friedes, advocacy director for Equal Rights Washington, a group that lobbies for marriage equality...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: ABC News (US) CA marriage case For all practical purposes, the only real change that yesterday's court decision means for California's gay couples is an official piece of paper and a legal ceremony. After all, under the state's domestic partnership laws, same-sex couples already enjoy all the legal rights and protections enjoyed by opposite-sex couples. But for hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples in the state, today's state Supreme Court decision to strike down the ban on gay marriage was a historic and transformative moment. "It changes everything," said...
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Thursday, May 15
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times , San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case San Francisco -- There were whoops of joys and hugs and tears among scores of gay rights advocates and same-sex couples this morning outside the California Supreme Court building in San Francisco as word spread that the justices had cleared the way for gay and lesbian marriages. Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, a gay rights group, ran out of the building on McAllister Street and screamed, "We won!" just after the decision was released at 10 a.m. Many people unfurled California...
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Thursday, May 15
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Source: Washington Blade CA marriage case by Kevin Naff, Washington Blade editor The last five years have been a wild ride for gay and lesbian Americans. There was euphoria in 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas and the Massachusetts high court mandated gay marriage. But those celebrations were tempered by the crushing disappointments a year later when a slew of states approved constitutional bans on marriage. Then the New York and Maryland high courts -- in sometimes harshly written opinions -- rejected arguments for marriage rights. And now the California...
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Thursday, May 15
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CA marriage case San Francisco -- California's highest court today ruled that the state's ban on marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional and that state authorities must take steps to grant full equality in marriage to all couples. The court described the right to marry [p 6] as one of the "core substantive rights" for all citizens of California. [T]he substantive right of two adults who share a loving relationship to join together to establish an officially recognized family of their own -- and, if the couple chooses, to raise children within that family -- constitutes...
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Thursday, May 15
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Source: Lower Hudson Journal News , AP via Newsday CARMEL, N.Y. -- Unmarried residents of New York's suburban Putnam County could soon have an opportunity to enroll in a domestic partner registry. A committee of county's legislature has voted to advance the proposal. The registry would allow unmarried couples -- gay or heterosexual -- to document their commitment in order to facilitate hospital visits, health benefits and other rights that come with marriage. Patricia McElroy of Patterson has been trying to get the Putnam Legislature to take up the issue since February. She wrote to county...
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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court will release on Thursday an eagerly-anticipated decision on whether the state's constitution requires marriage equality. The justices today posted a notation on the court's Web site that the ruling in the civil rights challenge to the same-sex marriage ban will be posted at 10 a.m. Thursday. Justices heard oral arguments in a series of cases brought by gay and lesbian couples, the city of San Francisco and two gay rights advocacy groups in early March...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: Arizona Daily Sun , Arizona Daily Star , Arizona Capitol Times PHOENIX -- Efforts to put a question on the November ballot asking voters to constitutionally deny equal marriage rights to same-sex couples overcame a major roadblock Monday -- passing through a closely divided state House on a 33-25 vote. A lack of support had stalled the measure for weeks, and it appeared dead in early April. But supporters managed to drum up the votes they needed in time for a Monday morning roll call -- due in part to two Democratic crossover votes. Monday's vote sends the measure to the Senate which...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Denver Post , KMGH-TV , Rocky Mountain News Denver -- A lesbian couple who staged a sit-in at the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office after being denied a marriage license was found guilty today of trespassing. Denver County Judge James Breese sentenced Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder to 28 hours of community service each and ordered each to pay $41 in court costs, according to the Denver Post . (Other media outlets give slightly different figures for the fines.) The six-woman jury deliberated less than an hour before announcing the guilty verdict. Prosecutors argued that the couple...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Associated Press via Boston.com , ABC6 , Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, RI -- The debate over gay marriage -- and gay divorce -- is taking center stage at the Rhode Island State House today as the issue continues a long and tortuous journey through the state's courts. Lawmakers are talking about several proposed changes to state law. They range from a bill that would allow gay couples to marry, to a constitutional amendment that would do just the opposite, defining marriage as between one man and one woman. The House Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hear testimony Wednesday on several...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Detroit Free Press , Associated Press via MLive.com Lansing, Mich. -- Michigan top court ruled Wednesday that a 2004 ban against gay marriage also blocks governments and state universities from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers. The 5-2 decision from the Supreme Court affirms a state Court of Appeals ruling. The court majority found that language in the amendment prohibiting recognition of other unions "for any purpose" included the extension of benefits to gay and lesbian partners of public employees. Up to 20 public universities, community colleges, school...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Philadelphia Daily News , Bulletin , Associated Press via Philadelphia Inquirer , Patriot-News Advocates of marriage as a special right for heterosexual couples had hoped to debate a measure today in the Pennsylvania senate that would have started a long process to add discriminatory language to the commonwealth's constitution. Instead, supporters of the measure quietly withdrew it from consideration yesterday in the face of Senate opposition to parts of the measure and after it became clear to them that it would not be considered in the state House if it had passed out of the Senate...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Poughkeepsie Journal, Empire State News , News8 ALBANY -- New York's highest court Tuesday sent back to a lower court a case involving whether Monroe County has to recognize a marriage between two women. The Court of Appeals refused to hear the case involving Patricia Martinez, an employee of Monroe Community College. She sued the county after it refused to grant benefits to Martinez’s female partner, Lisa Ann Golden, whom she married in Canada in 2004. The court ruled Tuesday that an issue of damages has to be settled before it can hear the case. That issue is now before a trial court...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: Canberra Times , AFP , The Australian , ABC News (Australia) SYDNEY -- Right-wing Australian Christian groups Monday welcomed a decision by a local territory government to abandon its plans to legalize same-sex civil union ceremonies after intervention from the Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. But some members of parliament from Rudd's own party blasted the federal intervention. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government, home to the national capital, wanted to introduce civil partnerships legislation that would have allowed gay couples to hold ceremonies legally...
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Sunday, May 04
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Source: Baltimore Sun Gay and lesbian activists thought they had a friend in Maryland governor Martin O'Malley. As a progressive mayor in Baltimore, O'Malley attended gay pride parades and signed into law a measure to protect transgender people from discrimination. When he ran for governor, he said he supported civil unions and wanted to extend benefits to same-sex partners of state employees, as he had done for city workers. But two years into O'Malley's first term in Annapolis, neither has happened. He largely stayed out of the debate over legal recognition for same-sex unions...
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Sunday, May 04
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Source: The Age , ABC News (Australia) , Sydney Morning Herald SAME-SEX couples in Canberra have lost a legal battle for civil unions, after the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government was forced into a humiliating backdown on the issue during tense negotiations with the Federal Government. ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell said the Commonwealth (the federal government) threatened to veto its bill on same-sex unions, leaving the ACT with "no choice" but to amend it. "We are angry, disappointed and frustrated with the approach of our federal colleagues," Mr Corbell told...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: (Salem) Today's Sunbeam , (Newark) Star-Ledger , Associated Press via USA Today , Washington Blade , Crosscut (Seattle) TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey on Friday became the third state to allow workers paid time off to care for a sick family member or new child, with the signing of a law more than 10 years in the making. It's the second state after California to extend the benefits to all families, including gay couples. Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State Equality, told the Washington Blade that his state "arguably leads the way in America amongst state legislatures in advancing...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: Miami Herald Opponents of a domestic partnership proposal for Miami-Dade government employees threatened county commissioners with political retribution at a news conference Friday. ''Every commissioner who does vote for the proposal will be held accountable,'' said Anthony Verdugo, executive director of the Christian Family Coalition. In a statement released before the press conference the coalition of anti-gay groups said that voters "will know the names of those working against the best interest of working families and children." The proposal defines domestic...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette , Allentown Morning Call , Harrisburg Patriot-News , Lancaster New Era , Philadelphia Inquirer , Harrisburg Intelligencer-Journal HARRISBURG, Penn. -- Lawyers, religious leaders and advocates for gays and lesbians faced off Tuesday in one of the most highly charged Senate Appropriations Committee hearings in recent memory. At issue was a proposal to strengthen the state's ban on marriage equality by placing it in the commonwealth's constitution along with a provision to prevent other kinds of same-sex unions that are "functionally equivalent to marriage...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald , ABC News (Australia) , The Age A major victory is on the horizon in the long battle by gay and lesbian partners in Australia for the same legal and financial rights as de facto heterosexual couples, Sydney Morning Herald reports. Australia's federal government plans to remove inequalities in 100 areas of the law. But Rodney Croome from the Australian Coalition for Equality says discrimination will not be eliminated until same-sex couples are allowed to marry. "While this is a very important reform in itself and it'll certainly remove many of the more...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Newsday , 1010 WINS , WABC News , Gay Financial Network Dan Pinello and Lee Nissensohn asked for a marriage license, but were given trespassing tickets WINS photo by Mona Rivera Frustrated by lack of progress on a marriage equality bill in the state legislature, a gay New York couple turned to act of civil disobedience. They refused to leave the Oyster Bay, N.Y., town clerk's office on Long Island Monday until they were given a marriage license. Although the state of New York doesn't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the protesters, Dan Pinello, 58, and Lee Nissensohn...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Haaretz , Scopical The State of Israel has agreed for the first time to register an overseas adoption by a gay couple and to grant the child Israeli citizenship, Haaretz reports. The landmark case involves a Cambodia-born boy, now eight years old, who was adopted in 2000 in the United States by two men who hold American and Israeli citizenship. Following his adoption, the boy received American citizenship and was also converted to Judaism. The parents returned to Israel shortly after the adoption, but their applications to the Interior Ministry to recognize the adoption and grant their...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: Yuma Sun , Associated Press via Tucson Citizen PHOENIX - Foes of gay marriage won a crucial victory Tuesday in the Arizona House. Without comment, lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a bill reviving a measure that would constitutionally define marriage as solely between one man and one woman. The original proposal was jettisoned by supporters earlier this month after the House amended it over their wishes to also include new rights for unmarried couples. A final House roll-call vote on the new version of the bill will send SCR 1042 to the Senate. The procedure used this time by supporters...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Australian , Sydney Star Observer Canberra -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been presented with his first major challenge on gay law reform from within his own party. The political leader of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) -- a small semi-autonomous area that includes the federal capital of Canberra -- has challenged him to allow gay and lesbian civil unions in the territory. On the partnership law in ACT, Rudd's government has followed the lead of the even more conservative Howard government that it kicked out of office. Howard twice overruled a civil union law passed...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle , Deb Price via AlterNet The sponsors of a proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage in California claimed Monday to have gathered enough signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot. A coalition of religious groups called Protect Marriage collected more than 1.1 million signatures in support of the amendment, said Brian Brown, executive director of the California office of the National Organization for Marriage. The initiative needs 694,354 signatures, or 8 percent of the votes cast in the last governor's...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Times (London) , KUTV News Wendy Sloane travels from her longtime home near London back to her hometown of Salt Lake City. She finds there a city undergoing some fundamental changes -- a city that recently instituted a "mutual commitment" registry for non-married couples. (With additional information from KUTV.) The day had finally dawned. After 12 years of being girlfriend and girlfriend, Holly Miller and P.R. Banks were getting married. Dressed in a cream trouser suit with a sparkly pink top, Holly, 44, looked radiant as she adjusted a silver tiara on her highlighted hair. P...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Associated Press via Boston Globe , WCAX TV After eight months of public hearings and legal forums, a special commission released its report on same-sex marriage. The commission did not make a recommendation about whether Vermont should legalize gay marriage, but it did conclude there is a significant difference between marriage and civil unions. The commission heard from literally hundreds of people during eight public hearings, and one legal forum. It took all those opinions and basically boiled them down into nine findings and three recommendations. The commission was appointed last...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Des Moines Register , Quad City Times Court documents filed by special interest groups designed to influence a state Supreme Court decision on Iowa's same-sex marriage ban are "a postscript of inadmissible hearsay remarks," and not formal legal arguments, according to the Polk County attorney's office. A recent "friend of the court" brief filed by gay and lesbian groups and Massachusetts state lawmakers was based on unfounded opinions and news accounts, Polk officials said in their own document filed Thursday. Lambda Legal, a New York gay rights organization...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Tampa Tribune , St. Petersburg Times , Palm Beach Post TAMPA -- The group backing a state constitutional amendment to limit marriage only to straight couples kicked off its publicity campaign Thursday with a group of Christian senior citizens. The Florida Coalition to Protect Marriage held several news conferences across the state heralding the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment, including one at Beulah Baptist Church in Tampa, the city's oldest black Baptist church. The coalition's former Florida4Marriage.org campaign is becoming Yes2Marriage.org, evoking its place as Amendment...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch , Virginian-Pilot The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments this morning in a long-running custody battle over a 6-year-old girl and two women who entered into a civil union in Vermont but then later broke up. Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were Virginia residents in 2000 when they traveled to Vermont to join in a civil union. Miller became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2001 and gave birth to a baby girl named Isabella the next year. The three moved to Vermont in 2002. Miller and Jenkins separated about a year later, and Miller moved back to Virginia...
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