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By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer JACKSON, MS — The same-sex marriage legal battle continues over a Mississippi law that allows merchants and government officials use their religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples. Attorneys filed a brief Thursday asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block this outrageous law. Legal experts say [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer SALEM, OR — The DMV in Oregon has become the first state in the USA to allow residents who don’t identify as male or female to mark their gender as “not specified” on applications for identity cards, learner’s driving permits and state driver’s licenses. According to Oregon’s Driver and Motor [...]
By: William Lopez, Staff Writer VALLETA, MALTA — Today, Malta's parliament in Valleta passed the first vote making same-sex marriage the law of the land. The law signals the latest shift in attitudes towards same-sex marriage in the staunchly Catholic country especially since the 2011 referendum that legalized divorces. Ever since that land breaking move, [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer After the huge backlash from gay rights activists, top national Democratic Party official Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake, is now making it public that he is requesting a refund of his $1,000 campaign contribution to a New York City Council candidate who is on record opposing same-sex marriage. RELATED: Supreme Court [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer It is a great day for the LGBTQ community as Gallup reported Monday May 15, that a record high number of adults say that same-sex marriage should be legal throughout the United States. You will remember when Gallup first initiated their tracking system to include same-sex marriage back in 1996.The [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer The now former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was permanently suspended last year from his position for refusing to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Same-Sex Marriage. Well he's back and has announced today Wednesday April 26, he is running for U.S. Senate for Alabama. “As United States [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer RALEIGH, N.C. – A new GOP bill HB780, filed by two Charlotte-area representatives is aiming to ban gay marriage in North Carolina once again The new proposed bill entitled, “Uphold Historical Marriage Act” , states that the U.S. Supreme Court over stepped its “constitutional bounds” when it ruled in 2015 [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer For the first time in history, a native American tribe in Oklahoma has voted to recognize same-sex marriage. Doing this historic moves allows this tribe to join a small group of prominent tribes changing their law in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic 2015 decision decision legalizing same-sex marriage [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer President Donald Trump made history this week when he became the first sitting Republican president to issue a public affirmation of LGBTQ individuals and vowing to protect them from discrimination if they’re working for the federal government and/or federal contractors. Before and after the election, President Trump called gay marriage [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, gay Republican activists gathered in the nation's capital from Florida, Nevada and DC., to celebrate the transfer of power. Founder of the Log Cabins Republican group, Robert Kabel, who supported Trump, spoke to the Washington Blade in D.C and [...]