Deb touched up the Project Postcard photos that James took last week. I am fairly pleased with how it went, and they have extended the project through Christmas. Basically, folks should sign a postcard to the Obama transition team asking for support for repealing DOMA and also for supporting LGBT equal rights. Optionally, they are asking for folks to take a photo with their postcard and post it. There is full details about the project here. In addition to the Flickr set, and the brief article on Erie Gay News linking to ...
The conflict within the state senate's Democrats and a push for re-election of Governor David Paterson has some lawmakers wary of attempting to pass a marriage equality bill in New York this session, perhaps not until 2011, the NYT reports:
"Internally, the debate has created two camps among lawmakers who back the bill — with one group saying a vote should happen as early as possible in 2009, and another camp arguing for an indefinite delay. But delaying it could upset some advocates of same-sex marriage, who poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into State Senate races this year. 'Since ...
Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that same-sex common law partners must be given the same rights and priveleges as opposite-sex partners, New Brunswick has introduced a bill called the modernization of benefits and obligations act. If passed, the act will update more than 30 other acts and regulations to extend equal status to same-sex common law relationships.
While same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for some time now, unmarried, same-sex, common-law partners are still, formally, on unequal ground compared to their heterosexual counterparts in New Brunswick.
Bizarrely enough, even though New Brunswick’s bill is the result ...
Yes, it's been literally days since Fosco talked to you about Prop H8. Don't worry, there is still Prop H8 news and Fosco is digesting it for you (so you don't have to!). Here are two Prop H8 titbits from the last couple of days:
Openly gay Rep. Jim Splaine, a Portsmouth Democrat, who successfully lead lawmakers in 2006 to defeat a proposal to amend the state's Constitution limiting the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman and then pushed through New Hampshire's civil union bill in 2007, will now work next year to bring same-sex marriage to the state.Civil unions in New Hampshire give same-sex couples about 90 percent of the benefits and obligations that heterosexual couples get through marriage and about 600 couples have so far entered into civil unions in that state.That law also allows people ...
Meet the New Boss... Same as the Old BossIn the last legislative session, the Democratic-led New York State Assembly passed a same sex marriage measure by a sizable margin. However that measure stalled when the Republican-controlled Senate declined to bring it to the floor for a vote.So during this past election, New York Democrats said that their party would legalize same-sex marriage if they won control of the State Senate this year.And we LGBT’s sent them a lot of money to make that happen.Now The New York Times is reporting that after a pledging that their party would ...