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Gay rights bills caught in Obama, D.C. stagnation

Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by .

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The Obama administration’s passive approach to guiding Congress and health reform sucking up all the air in the room has stalled other legislation, including LGBT bills. “It’s more a problem of competence than political malice,” according to one Hill insider and LGBT advocate, a conclusion many progressive political operatives have…

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Va. gov. won’t back bias bill, says gays are protected

Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by .

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Uganda gay bill critics deliver massive online petition

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by .

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Campaigners opposing Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill have taken an online petition to parliament, signed by some 450,000 people from around the world. The petition is the latest attempt to halt the bill, which carries the death penalty for some homosexual acts. US President Barack Obama has called the proposed legislation “odious”….

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Obama nominates out lesbian for U.S. attorney post

Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by .

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President Obama has nominated out lesbian Laura E. Duffy to be the next U.S.

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Obama health care proposal leaves out gay parts

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by .

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President Obama released a new health care reform bill Monday that he says incorporates work done in the House and Senate and adds ideas from Republican members of Congress. But there’s no inclusion in this new proposed measure of any of the gay-related provisions in the original House bill. The…

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Second judge gives gay marriage OK in Buenos Aires

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by .

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A judge in Buenos Aires today gave the green light to another marriage between two men, two months after the first gay marriage in Latin America. Judge Elena Liberatori ruled in favor of an appeal by a same-sex couple who had been denied a marriage license by the city registrar

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ACLU suit claims police harassed transgender woman

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by .

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A transgender Newark resident has filed a lawsuit that alleges harassment by police officers. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit Wednesday, Feb. 17, on behalf of Diana Taylor, a transgender New Jersey woman.

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Reservist group won’t fight gays in military this time

Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by .

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An organization representing military reservists voted to rescind its previous call to exclude all gays and lesbians from serving in the military. The Reserve Officers Association of the United States voted Wednesday to abandon their previous stance, but members did not officially agree to back President Barack Obama’s directive calling…

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75% of Americans back Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by .

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Three-quarters of Americans say that they support openly gay people serving in the U.S. military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a finding that could lend momentum to the Obama administration’s effort to dismantle the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The level of public support for…

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Top Pentagon brass to scale back Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by .

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President Obama’s top defense officials will tell the Senate on Tuesday that the military will no longer aggressively pursue disciplinary action against gay service members whose orientation is revealed against their will by third parties, sources say. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates…

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