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Friday, June 06
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Source: Richmond Times-Union , Northern Virginia Daily , Associated Press Richmond, VA -- A Virginia Supreme Court ruling this morning means a Vermont child custody order in a failed civil union must be enforced here even though same-sex marriages are barred in Virginia, but the right-wing lawyers who lost today's case vowed to continue the legal fight. The unusual, long-running case centers on 6-year-old Isabella, born to then Lisa Miller-Jenkins, after she was artificially inseminated. Miller-Jenkins had entered into a civil union in Vermont with Janet Miller-Jenkins in 2001. The union broke...
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Sunday, May 11
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Source: Falls Church News-Press , Washington Blade Falls Church, Va. -- Virginia history was made in the Falls Church city election Tuesday. By being elected to the City Council, Lawrence Webb has become the first openly gay Afro-American elected official in the history of the commonwealth. Webb, 33, an assistant dean of admissions at Mary Washington University, ran on a slate endorsed by what the Falls Church News-Press calls "the City’s venerable civic organization", the Citizens for a Better City (CBC) along with Incumbent Mayor Robin Gardner, Incumbent Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry...
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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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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Boston Herald , Rutland (Vt) Herald , Associated Press via Boston Herald [post updated 3/14/08 with additional information on the argument from Boston Herald ] The Vermont Supreme Court will once again weigh in on a national headline-making child custody suit stemming from a bitter civil union split. A three-judge panel of the Vermont Supreme Court's seven justices heard arguments Thursday morning from attorneys representing Janet Jenkins of who now lives in Vermont and Lisa Miller, who lives in Virginia. The issues at the heart of the dispute involve custody and contact with a child...
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Saturday, December 22
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Source: Virginian-Pilot via Pantagraph PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- Bethany Laccone can attend I.C. Norcom High School wearing a T-shirt that depicts a lesbian pride symbol, Principal Lynn Briley said Friday. Briley’s announcement came a day after the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that Norcom officials apologize to the 17-year-old student after a teacher and an assistant principal there reportedly made her cover up the shirt and requested she not wear it to school. The organization also requested, among other things, that officials not participate in other such “censorship” and remove any disciplinary...
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Thursday, December 20
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Source: Houston Voice In Portsmouth, Virginia, a high school female has been punished for wearing a T-shirt featuring a lesbian pride symbol (two overlapping female gender symbols). A teacher was upset by the shirt, and school officials at I.C. Norcom High School had threatened the 17-year-old senior with suspension, according to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union. "When my teacher told me she wanted me to turn my shirt inside-out or cover it up, I was confused, because I've worn that shirt to school several times before and nobody ever said a word about it,"...
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Thursday, December 06
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Source: Baltimore Sun QUANTICO, Va. - A Catholic Navy chaplain was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after admitting that he forced himself on a Naval Academy midshipman, coerced a Marine he was counseling to take nude photos of him and had sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing he was HIV-positive. Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee, 42, pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including aggravated assault, fraternization, forcible sodomy, conduct unbecoming an officer and wrongful use of his government computer, as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Marine Corps Col. Steven Day...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: Washington Post For 11 years, over nearly 200,000 miles, with the blessing of the state of Virginia, David Phillips has driven his Tracker with the "POOFTER" license plate, and nobody has complained -- not even when he parked at the British Embassy, where everybody knows "poofter" is British slang for a gay man. "It's always a rolling good laugh for them," says Phillips, who is gay and chose his tags' message because "it's just an amusing word that I self-identify with." The commonwealth of Virginia is not amused. It gave Phillips his...
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