Tag Archives: LGBT rights

Portuguese Parliament Approves Marriage

Today the Portuguese parliament approved a same-sex marriage bill. Portugal’s parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage. Conservative President Anibal Cavaco Silva is thought unlikely to veto the Socialist government’s bill, which won the support of all left-of-center parties. His ratification would allow the first gay marriage …

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New Jersey Marriage Vote Reaction

Watch the woman in red.

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Lambda Legal To Sue In NJ Supreme Court

Lambda Legal is taking today’s marriage equality loss back to the New Jersey Supreme Court. Via press release: “The requirement to ensure equality for same-sex couples, established by the New Jersey Supreme Court in its decision in our marriage lawsuit in 2006, has not been met,” said Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director at Lambda Legal. “There is enormous, heartbreaking evidence that …

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Rhode Island Legislature Overrides Veto Of Partner Funeral Rights Bill

As expected, today the Rhode Island legislature voted to override Gov. Don Carcieri’s hateful veto of a bill granting same-sex partners the right to make burial decisions about each other. The House — and then the Senate — voted to override Republican Carcieri’s veto of a bill giving domestic partners the right to claim the bodies of — and make …

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SHOCKER: NJ Senate To Vote On Marriage Equality This Thursday

Stunning observers, this afternoon the NJ Senate announced that they would, after all, hold a vote on marriage equality on this Thursday. The bill is unlikely to pass. There will in fact be a vote on gay marriage in the lame duck session of the New Jersey state legislature on Thursday, NBCNewYork.com has learned. “We’re gonna post the bill and …

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NYT Editorializes On Uganda

Following up their overdue but welcome entry into Uganda’s “kill gays” bill outrage, the New York Times yesterday called out the involved American evangelicals in an editorial called Hate Begets Hate. The government’s venom is chilling: “Homosexuals can forget about human rights,” James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently. What …

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On Immigration Equality

Here’s an interview with documentarian Sebastian Cordoba and a look at Through Thick and Thin, his film about the inequalities facing binational LGBT couples in the U.S.

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NYT Finally Weighs In On Uganda

The New York Times has finally noticed the now months-long debacle over Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, in an article about the three American evangelicals largely blamed for spawning the proposed legislation. Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of …

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NOM: Keep Rhode Island’s Ban On Gays Burying Their Partners

In November, Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed a bill that would allow same-sex couples to make burial decisions about each other. The bill arose out of the case of Mark Goldberg, who was denied access to his partner’s body for months. This Tuesday the state legislature, which overwhelmingly approved the bill, has a final chance to override Carcieri’s veto. …

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The Gay State Of The World

(Via – World Focus, tipped by JMG reader Alex)

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Chart Of The Day

(Via – New York Times)

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MALAWI: Gay Couple Arrested For Marriage Ceremony

A gay couple has been arrested and charged with indecency for conducting a marriage ceremony in Malawi. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza had a tradiitonal ceremony in the south African country on Saturday. Malawi has severe penalties against homosexual acts, commonly punishing gay sex with up to 14 years in prison. Attempts lin 2007 by human rights lawyers to repeal …

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Number Of Openly Gay Elected Officials Nearly Doubled In The Last Decade

The New York Times says that instead of same-sex marriage, a better barometer of public opinion on homosexuality is the decade’s avalanche of openly gay elected officials. Currently there are at least 445 gays and lesbians holding office, an increase of almost 200 in the last eight years. Some political scientists say the rise in openly gay candidates’ winning public …

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Stand For Marriage DC Launches Anti-Gay Ad Campaign On City’s Buses

Full Equality Now DC wants the city to force the removal of Stand For Marriage DC’s anti-gay bus ads. ”The bus is a particularly painful place for these advertisements to be located, as they cannot be avoided. Because of these advertisements, countless LGBT citizens are forced to stare down discrimination as they board the bus to go somewhere or are …

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Tbilisi: Georgian Police Raid LGBT Center

Georgian LGBT organization The Inclusive Foundation reports that numerous members were detained by the police in a raid that occurred last week in Tbilisi. On December 15 2009 the office of the Inclusive Foundation, a well known Georgian LGBT organisation, was raided by the police. They did not wear police uniforms, did not provide a search warrant, did not inform …

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U.S. State Department Says Uganda President Will Veto “Kill Gays” Bill

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PhoboQuotable – Tim Pawlenty

“That statute is not worded the way it should be. I said I regretted the vote later because it included things like cross-dressing, and a variety of other people involved in behaviors that weren’t based on sexual orientation, just a preference for the way they dressed and behaved. So it was overly broad. So if you are a third-grade teacher …

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UGANDA: Hundreds Picket Capital In Support Of “Kill Gays” Bill

Hundreds of anti-gay protesters demonstrated in Kampala today in support of Uganda’s pending “kill gays” bill. The protesters, led by born-again clerics, cultural leaders, and university undergraduates, marched to the parliament where they presented a petition. The bill – introduced by parliamentarian David Bahati – would see gay men and lesbians sentenced to life imprisonment for having sex, and a …

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Will New Mexico Be #32?

Feeling left out of the nationwide cavalcade of hate, a New Mexico lawmaker has pre-filed a bill which would amend that state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Senator William Sharer, a Republican from Farmington, has pre-filed legislation that would define marriage as a heterosexual union in the New Mexico Constitution. The bill proposes adding the following text to the constitution: …

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The Pride Agenda On Hope For 2010

New from the Empire State Pride Agenda: On December 2, 2009 the New York State Senate rejected a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. New Yorkers responded to the vote with sadness and anger, but mostly with renewed determination to win. Join the Pride Agenda as we continue fighting for equal rights for all LGBT New Yorkers …

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