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High School Cute-ical
From a CBS affiliate in Chicago: A couple that met during drama class and has been going out for nearly a year was voted “cutest couple” during an annual senior yearbook poll last week at Waukegan High School. But for … Continue reading
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Books Banned for “Homosexual Content”
An editorial in the CollegiateTimes.com reports that schools in Bedford County, VA have removed Totally Joe from elementary school libraries after a parent complained of inappropriate content. The book is reportedly not available in any county school or … Continue reading
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Elizabeth M. Glazer, “When Obscenity Discriminates”
The abstract: When public indecency statutes outlaw gender nonconformity, obscenity discriminates; when movie ratings censor representations of sexual minorities, obscenity discriminates, and discriminates on the basis of their status as sexual minorities. This Article addresses obscenity doctrine’s infliction of first … Continue reading
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Lavender Languages & Linguistics XV (Feb. 15-17, 2008)
The Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference examines language use in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer life. Languages and linguistics are broadly defined here, to include studies of: pronunciation, vocabulary and meaning, conversational structures and styles, life stories and other … Continue reading
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Using Facebook to Identify Attackers
An earlier post described how police used bragging posts on Facebook to identify suspects in the beating of an Indiana woman. Now this from cnn.com: Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown … Continue reading
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ENDA
Thursday the House Education and Labor Committee is holding a special meeting to discuss the strategy proposed by some House leaders to pass an ENDA that does not protections for transgender people. More information about ENDA here. Additional information at … Continue reading
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It’s National Coming Out Day!
The Human Rights Campaign has a topical video here.
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Whew!
The Oregon Office of Secretary of State announced yesterday that opponents of the state’s recently-enacted domestic partnership regime failed in their attempt to collect enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot next year allowing voters to accept or … Continue reading
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No Same-Sex Marriage in Maryland
So says the state’s highest court, reversing a lower court decision from January striking down the state’s law as discriminatory. – David S. Cohen
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National GLBT Resources
National GLBT Resources Advocate. An LGBT news website. Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (415) 861-KIDS Day of Silence Project: a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of … Continue reading
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SOUTH CAROLINA AND MIDLANDS AREA GLBT ORGANIZATIONS
SOUTH CAROLINA EQUALITY COALITION – statewide coalition of LGBT organizations and allies – www.scequality.org HARRIET HANCOCK COMMUNITY CENTER – state’s first GLBT community center (1108 Woodrow Street) – volunteer staff, home to support groups and educational efforts – www.scglpm.org or … Continue reading
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Mitt Romney, Flip-Flopper?
That Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on social issues in his attempt to pander to the conservative Republican base in order to win the Republican nomination for President is old news. Nonetheless, a story in today’s New York Times provides a … Continue reading
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Good News from Kansas
LGBT state employees received some good news at the end of last week. The Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, signed an executive order on August 31 that bans harassment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender … Continue reading
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Larry Craig
I’ve been trying to resist posting on the whole Larry Craig affair because it seems that everyone else in the blogosphere has covered just about every conceivable angle of this story. But, after hearing that Craig is now determined to … Continue reading
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Congratulations Timothy and Sean!
Timothy McQuillan and Sean Fritz are the only legally married gay couple in the state of Iowa. They managed to get a license, find someone to marry them, and have the ceremony in the short time between when an … Continue reading
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GenderPAC Releases New Report on Gender Discrimination in Schools
The GENIUS (Gener Equality National Index for Universities and Schools) Report is available here. An overview from GenderPAC notes: “This is the second year that GenderPAC has published the GENIUS Index. The 2007 Index reflects a tremendous increase in response … Continue reading
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On Larry Craig
My thinking on his arrest and the current media frenzy about it is rather muddled. One the one hand, I understand what Bill Araiza is saying at Prawfsblawg and the similar view Hilzoy articulated at Obsidian Wings. Larry Craig appears … Continue reading
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“Ohio court redefines the future for gays, lesbians”
Feminist Law Prof Marc Spindelman published a column with this title in recent issue of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Below is an excerpt: A funny thing happened in the Ohio Supreme Court last month: For the first time, the court … Continue reading
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“Free Derry Corner” Pink With Pride
IntlawGrrrls has the story of “this month’s Pride celebration in Northern Ireland’s 2d largest city” here.
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Infanti on Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System
Feminist Law Prof Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) has posted to ssrn his article “Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System: Unfettering Zealous Advocacy on Behalf of Lesbian and Gay Taxpayers.” Here is the abstract: In this article, I consider … Continue reading
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10th Circuit Victory for Same-Sex Parents of Adopted Children
Earlier this month, the 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling striking down an Oklahoma statute, the Adoption Invalidation Law, that effectively made children adopted by same-sex couples in other states legal orphans when the families were in Oklahoma. The … Continue reading
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Symbolism
Writing, as I do, about how the tax laws adversely impact same-sex couples, I often come up against the entirely misguided argument that same-sex couples should be happy with their current treatment under the federal tax laws:that is, mandatory treatment … Continue reading
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Erasing History
The Philadelphia School District last year designated October as Gay and Lesbian History Month. After receiving a barrage of complaints, the school district decided at the end of last week to do away with Gay and Lesbian History Month. To … Continue reading
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“Male Sportswriter Returns To Work As a Woman”
Alternet article about Christine Daniels here.
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Update on Domestic Partner Benefits at UPS
UPS has now relented and decided to extend health insurance benefits to parties to a NJ civil union. The NY Times story is here. -Anthony C. Infanti
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Update on UPS and Spousal Benefits
A follow-up to my earlier post here on the UPS spousal benefits issue. Governor Corzine has now entered the fray, sending a letter to UPS (here), urging it to extend benefits and pointing out that NJ law in fact … Continue reading
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More on the Income Tax Deductibility of Sex-Change Operations
Professor Katherine Pratt of Loyola Law School – Los Angeles posted to the TaxProf listserv the following analysis of the income tax deductibility of sex change operations, previously blogged here. She makes an argument for tax deductibility based on … Continue reading
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Income Tax Deductibility of Sex-Change Operations
The Associated Press reports this story, under the headline “Mass. Woman Sues IRS Over Sex-Change Tax Deduction:” After a tormented existence as a father, a husband, a Coast Guardsman and a construction worker, a 57-year-old suburban Boston man underwent a … Continue reading
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UPS and”Marriage”by Any Other Name
Many people:both gay and straight:think that same-sex couples should settle for civil unions or domestic partnerships and shouldn’t bother fighting for marriage. After all, if you already have all of the rights and obligations of marriage, what’s so important … Continue reading
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Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Partners It appears from an editorial in my hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that faculty at state universities in Pennsylvania will soon be getting access to domestic partner benefits. This is great news, but not as … Continue reading
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Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Partners It appears from an editorial in my hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that faculty at state universities in Pennsylvania will soon be getting access to domestic partner benefits. This is great news, but not as … Continue reading
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Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Partners It appears from an editorial in my hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that faculty at state universities in Pennsylvania will soon be getting access to domestic partner benefits. This is great news, but not as … Continue reading
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Oh for the love of…
Exactly what possessed Eugene Volokh to look into the sexual orientation of female law profs whose scholarship gets cited a lot? See his “update” at end of this post and try to avoid banging your head on the computer monitor.
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Failed Massachusetts bar applicant sues bar examiners over test question on gay marriage
From the National Law Journal: A Massachusetts bar examination applicant who claims he failed the test because he didn’t answer a question about homosexual marriage and parenting is suing the test administration agency, the state Supreme Judicial Court and four … Continue reading
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Being Happy as a Girl
Paula Zahn at cnn did this interview with a 7-year-old transgendered child and her family. The child’s parents initially resisted their biologically male child’s desire to wear pink clothes and play with dolls. But after the child began … Continue reading
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Clueless in New Jersey
A senior at East Side High School in Newark, NJ, had purchased (for $150, no less) a page in the school’s yearbook to commemorate his high school experiences. Included among the montage of photos printed on that page was one … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Edwards Comes Out In Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting here that Elizabeth Edwards has broken with her husband (and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) on the issue of same-sex marriage. The paper reportsher as saying,”I don’t know why somebody else’s marriage has anything … Continue reading
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DJGLP PUBLISHES “GENDER, SEXUALITY & THE MILITARY”
From the FLP mailbox: “The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy is proud to announce the publication of its latest issue, “Gender, Sexuality & the Military.”… “Gender, Sexuality & the Military” explores such timely topics as the exemption of … Continue reading
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NYC Dyke March
On this Saturday, June 23, the NYC Dyke March begins at 5 pm sharp on 42nd street and 6th avenue (at Bryant Park). This march is for gay women and for all women who believe in the freedom of sexual … Continue reading
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Who Needs Anti-Discrimination Laws?
That seems to be the message that opponents are taking away from Maine’s experience with the addition of sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination law 18 months ago. A story in the Portland Press-Herald reports that, since December 28, 2005, the … Continue reading
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Same-Sex Marriage Debate in New York
Yesterday, the New York State Assembly passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage by a wide margin (i.e., 85-61). That bill is now expected by all to go off to the New York State Senate to die. Nonetheless, the … Continue reading
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Gay Bomb?
According to this report from the local CBS affiliate in San Francisco, an Air Force lab in Ohio proposed in 1994 that the Defense Department develop a “Gay Bomb,” a hormonal weapon intended to “turn” all enemy soldiers into homosexuals … Continue reading
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The”fAg”Bug
Probably the most interesting thing that I saw at PrideFest yesterday was the”fAg”bug. Erin Davies came to Pittsburgh from Albany, New York in her VW Beetle, which had been vandalized this past April 18th. Because Erin has a rainbow sticker … Continue reading
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Pittsburgh PRIDE
Today was Pittsburgh PrideFest. The difference between PrideFest when I moved to Pittsburgh seven years ago and today is striking. Many more people participate in the parade and show up to the activities afterwards, although the turnout along the parade … Continue reading
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