Joe.My.God. LGBT News

“The marriage equality movement has been a success for a lot of reasons. One of them, no doubt, is branding and framing. And it’s time to learn from that and apply it to other battles, like the battle against employment discrimination, which has been a dismal failure. For almost two decades we’ve tried but failed to get federal workplace protections. …

Gothamist explains: If you’ve been wondering where the bearded, slim-hipped throngs of Daft Punk-worshipping, artisanal razor-shaving blog cliches prefer to get their kale and PBR, well, Yelp has got you covered; the all-encompassing Reviews of the People site has been kind enough to create heat maps documenting where reviewers mention words like “yuppie,” “tourist” and “bacon” most, and naturally they’ve …

Just posted by Brian Brown: Despite issuing two terrible decisions on marriage, the US Supreme Court stopped short of fabricating a “right” to redefine marriage in our Constitution, allowing individual states to settle the question. And today, Indiana has that chance! Governor Pence has called upon the legislature to take up the second vote needed to put marriage before the …

“The bottom line is that the Supreme Court rulings fly in the face of a growing mountain of social science research showing that the best household arrangement for children is a married mom and dad. It contradicts centuries of experience across time and cultures for the best family structure for strong nations. It represents a national experiment in social reconstruction …

Via McClatchy: “From an LGBT perspective, at this point, immigration is going to be an even playing field,” said Cara Jobson, a partner in Wiley and Jobson, a San Francisco immigration law firm. The U.S. government is working to ensure that couples who qualify will be able to get the process started right away, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee has scheduled the markup for the LGBT job anti-bias legislation two weeks to the day that the Supreme Court ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. Scheduling the vote is first step for Senate HELP Committee Chair Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in …