Category Archives: LGBT Rights

An update on Perry v. Schwarzenegger, including a discussion of the expert testimony is available on Constitutional Law Professors blog here. -Ruthann Robson

The federal trial regarding the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 is set to begin tomorrow. The district court judge who will be presiding over the trial has decided to have the trial broadcast live at several other federal courthouses and … Continue reading →

The New Jersey Senate just voted down a bill that would have extended the right to marry to same-sex couples. The vote was 20 against and 14 in favor of the bill, with several of the forty senators apparently choosing … Continue reading →

For the socially conscious LGBT shopper, the Human Rights Campaign has now released its “Buy4Equality” app for the iPhone. Before you buy a company’s product, you can now check how the company fares on HRC’s corporate equality index. Companies are … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Profs Darren Rosenblum (Pace) and Sonia Katyal (Fordham) published an op-ed in today’s National Law Journal.   Here is an excerpt: By a vote of 38-24, the New York state Senate has decided to uphold marriage discrimination in … Continue reading →

This afternoon, the New York State Senate rejected a bill that would make same-sex marriage legal in the State of New York. The New York Times has coverage here. It may be because I live in the (presumed-to-be) liberal Borough … Continue reading →

With the vote on marriage equity coming in Maine in less than two weeks, this powerful short film perfectly captures the issue. Vote No on 1.   And if you’re not in Maine, show this video to your friends and … Continue reading →

Last week, the highest courts of Montana and Missouri issued rather different decisions in the ongoing debate over LGBT parenting. The Montana Supreme Court held that the partner of an adoptive mother of two children was entitled to parental rights … Continue reading →

The New York State Bar Association officially supports marriage as the exclusive means for achieving equality for same-sex couples.  Here is one of the resolutions passed today by the organization’s House of Delegates:   RESOLVED that the Association hereby endorses … Continue reading →

Here’s what then-Senator Barak Obama said about DOMA in a 2004 letter to a Chicago paper: When Members of Congress passed DOMA, they were not interested in strengthening family values or protecting civil liberties. They were only interested in perpetuating … Continue reading →

With so much focus on the bill protecting religious liberty, it seems that little attention has been paid to the actual bill  extending the right to marry to same-sex couples in New Hampshire. That bill enshrines differing marriageable ages for … Continue reading →

Obama has remained silent on marriage equality for far too long.   Frank Rich calls him on it, with his usual eloquence, in this week’s column here. -Darren Rosenblum

From here, an update for everyone who fretted over where to stay in San Diego.   Victory for the boycott! Almost a year into what some have called a very effective boycott of his businesses, San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester … Continue reading →

Today, Maine’s governor signed into law a bill extending the right to marry to same-sex couples. (From a quick look at the Maine Constitution, art. IV, pt. 3, § 16, it appears that the law will not go into effect … Continue reading →

In an earlier post, I blogged about a California Court of Appeals decision that held that a religious high school was not a “business establishment” and, therefore, not subject to the state’s nondiscrimination law. In effect, this allowed the high … Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the 13th annual Day of Silence, a day when students remain silent to draw attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying, and harassment in schools. There was a highly disturbing story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today in advance of the … Continue reading →

The Washington House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that will afford registered domestic partners all of the rights and obligations afforded to married couples. The bill passed the state’s Senate earlier this year, and the governor has indicated that … Continue reading →

New Yorkers have apparently been engaging in self-flagellation following the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision to extend the right to marry to same-sex couples, putting “flyover” country ahead of New York in the vanguard of advancing LGBT rights. Now a Democratic … Continue reading →