BREAKING: Federal Court Victory for Marriage Equality in South Dakota
Today, a federal district judge in South Dakota issued a swift ruling declaring the state’s ban on marriage equality unconstitutional.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down South Dakota's Gay Marriage Ban
Federal Judge Strikes Down South Dakota's Gay Marriage Ban
A federal judge has just issued a ruling striking down South Dakota’s ban on same-sex marriage. The order has been stayed pending appeal.
From U.S. Judge Karen Schreier’s ruling:
In Loving, the Supreme Court addressed a traditionally accepted definition of marriage that prohibited Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving from marrying. Because Virginia’s laws deprived that couple of their fundamental right to marriage, the Court struck down those laws. Little distinguishes this case from Loving. Plaintiffs have a fundamental right to marry. South Dakota law deprives them of that right solely because they are same-sex couples and without sufficient justification.
Full ruling below:
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Diversity Charter: 6 Percent of Channel 4 Employees Must be LGBT
Diversity Charter: 6 Percent of Channel 4 Employees Must be LGBT
Channel 4 just announced its diversity targets for 2020 and they want to have 6 percent of their hires be lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual by 2020. Do you think employment diversity policies…
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The 8 Greatest Quotes from Friday's Marriage Equality Oral Argument
The 8 Greatest Quotes from Friday's Marriage Equality Oral Argument
We’ve rounded up our favorite quotes, retorts, and one-liners from the three-judge panel.
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Affordable Care Act: Are you Out2Enroll?
Affordable Care Act: Are you Out2Enroll?
This week, HRC marks National LGBT Outreach and Enrollment Week for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Homophobic Protestors Succeed In Thwarting Gay Wedding For The Fourth Time
Homophobic Protestors Succeed In Thwarting Gay Wedding For The Fourth Time
A same-sex wedding scheduled to take place at City Hall in Baja California was thwarted for the fourth time on Saturday.
Victor Manuel Aguirre and Fernando Urias (pictured) have been trying to tie the knot in Mexicali since June 2013, but every time they show up for their scheduled appointment at City Hall, they are turned away.
When the couple showed up for their latest appointment on Saturday, they were greeted by dozens of protestors, many of whom were wearing blue surgical masks that read “only a man and a woman.” A top city official told press that the wedding ceremony had been canceled at the last minute after a complaint was filed alleging the two would-be grooms “suffer from madness.”
The complaint was submitted by a woman named Angelica Guadalupe Gonzalez Sanchez. Sanchez serves as the president of the Coalition of Baja California Families, where she and her husband offer mandatory pre-marital counseling to couples preparing for civil wedding ceremonies at Mexicali City Hall.
In her complaint, Sanchez alleged that the men acted “aggressive and impertinent” towards her after she and her husband refused to offer them the mandatory pre-marital counseling talk, claiming the sessions were designed for heterosexual couples only.
Municipal official Jose Felix Arango Perez told reporters that “the submission of the complaint by this individual obligates us to suspend the legal ceremony,” adding that it is now up to the state’s family court system to resolve the matter.
Augierre and Urias tried getting married two months earlier, but officials said they could not perform the wedding ceremony due to “unresolved paperwork issues.” But the men insist this latest move by same-sex marriage opponents will not stop them from eventually being wed.
“Of course, we are going to continue to try,” Aguirre told reporters from the steps of City Hall.
“One day, their tricks will end, and we will never get tired of trying,” added Urias.
Related stories:
Harassment, Abuse, And Extortion: The Everyday Struggles Of Gay Mexicans Revealed
Mexico’s First Openly Gay Mayor Sung His Way To Victory, “Not In Favor” Of Gay Marriage
Mexico Supreme Court: Mexico City’s Gay Marriage Law Can Stay
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Thời trang LGBT sơn la
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Jeff From 'My Husband's Not Gay' Compares His Same-Sex Attraction To Eating Doughnuts
Jeff From 'My Husband's Not Gay' Compares His Same-Sex Attraction To Eating Doughnuts
Despite outspoken critics and an online backlash, TLC went ahead with its controversial special, “My Husband’s Not Gay,” on Sunday night.
The reality program, which focused on a group of Mormon men who say they’ve chosen to marry women despite being attracted to other men, didn’t quite generate the scathing reviews that many might have hoped for.
Jeff and Tanya, one couple featured on the program, joined ABC News last week ahead of the Jan. 11 airing of “My Husband’s Not Gay” to speak about the show. In the interview, Jeff defended his decision to be married to Tanya instead of another man using a bizarre — and offensive — analogy.
“I love doughnuts,” Jeff explained. “I would eat doughnuts three times a day, but I desire to be able to fit in my pants in the morning, too.”
He went on to note, “So you could say I am oriented toward doughnuts, and if I was being true to myself, I would eat donuts a lot more than I eat doughnuts … [but] am I denying myself because I don’t eat doughnuts as much as I might like to eat doughnuts? I’m not.”
He then added, “In fact, I desire to live a healthy lifestyle, so I don’t eat a lot of doughnuts.”
Faces of Inequality in Congress: Representative Jody Hice
Faces of Inequality in Congress: Representative Jody Hice
Earlier this week, HRC shined a bright spotlight on six of the new members of the 114th Congress with some of the most shameful and extreme anti-equality rhetoric, record and positions on LGBT issues.
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