Influential law professor and occasional blogger Nan Hunter has posted to Bilerico a list of legal actions President Obama that would improve the lives of LGBT Americans dramatically.1. President Clinton issued an executive order that prohibited discrimination against federal employees based on sexual orientation. President Obama should add gender identity to the list of prohibited bases for discrimination. One method would be by defining either "sex" or "sexual orientation" in the current order to include gender identity and expression. He has strong legal grounds for doing so, especially if the new language is added to the definition of sex ...

The evangelical-founded internet dating site eHarmony has agreed to launch a same-sex dating service as part of the settlement of a discrimination action brought against it in 2005. But the notoriously heterosexual eHarmony site will not allow same-sex searches. Instead people looking for same-sex relationships on eHarmony will be directed to a gay-only site called Compatiblepartners, away from the company's homepage. Any money users pay to the new site will only enrich an organization with a terrible record of discrimination against gay people. Eric McKinley, a 46-year-old New Jersey resident who tried to use eHarmony to meet other gay men filed ...