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• UPDATE ON NJ SAME SEX CIVIL UNIONS

  
  NJ Family Legal Blog — Authority: 123
  Recently I blogged on developments in the debate of same sex civil unions and marriage in New Jersey.  To read that entry click here .  The New Jersey Star Ledger along with other media outlets have reported that the vote on the bill in the New Jersey Senate to approve gay marriage, scheduled for Thursday, ...
  4 days ago

• Domestic Experience and Taking *Yourself* For Granted

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 133
  Just following up on my earlier post, Domestic Experience and Being Taken for Granted: It’s Not a Gender Thing, It’s Situational , the other, obvious thing is that it’s all my side of the story.* Because if I would say the floor is not a closet my partner would say the dining room table (where I work) is not ...
  6 days ago

• LGBT-Related Issues in New Appropriations Bill in Congress

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 155
  Yesterday, Congress released a consolidated appropriations bill, including the funding measures for the Department of Health and Human Services and the District of Columbia, that includes positive developments on HIV/AIDS and comprehensive sex education. The HHS funding provision includes an increase of $36 million ...
  1 week ago

• NJ: Senate Judiciary Committee advances bill in support of same-sex marriage

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 9, 2009States allowing civil unions/same-sex-marriage/domestic partnerNew Jersey’s Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7-6 (video) in support of a same-sex marriage bill: Marriage Equality Act (S1967/A2978), after a heated 7 hour debate Monday night (7th). Sen Baroni added an amendment stipulating that clergy ...
  1 week ago

• WA State Comprehensive DP Law Now In Effect!

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 432
  The Approval of Referendum 71 was made official Thursday December 3rd. From the official blog of the Washington State Secretary of State: Referendum 71, placed on the ballot by foes of same-sex marriage, was approved by a margin of more than 110,000 votes, or more than 6 percentage points. National media ...
  1 week ago

• John Berrys No Good, Very Bad Answer About That Lesbians Health Benefits

  
  Queerty — Authority: 697
  Oh, hi John Berry! We know you are so, so tired of being the go-to gay in the Obama administration, but you just happen to be the most senior out gay staffer who also happens to oversee the livelihoods of more than a million federal employees. Some of whom are homosexual! So, like, could you please take a moment to ...
  1 week ago

• Washington Domestic Partnership Law Takes Effect

  
  Blog Out - Just Out Newspaper — Authority: 143
  Washington’s domestic partnership law took effect yesterday, and already the state has seen a rise in registrations of domestic partnerships.The state registry, operated by the Corporations and Charities Division, has had a big increase in filings in November. Officials say there have been an average of 90 ...
  1 week ago

• Wash. “everything-but-marriage” law resumes today

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 155
  Fortunately, equal marriage advocates have some good news today, despite the upset witnessed yesterday in New York.  Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has certified the results of last month’s elections, including the approval of Referendum 71 to maintain domestic partner benefits.  As of 12:01 this morning, same-sex ...
  1 week ago

• everything but married

  
  Ask Nicola — Authority: 126
  Today is the day Washingtons domestic partnership measure kicks in : here, we are everything-but-married. It means a lot, yet it means not much. It means that as long as I dont cross the state line, K and I will be treated like spouses in purely domestic matters such as testifying against each other in court, ...
  1 week ago

• SOME GAYS SEEK A RENEWED FOCUS ON CIVIL UNIONS: Associated Press

  
  MARRIAGEDEBATE.COM--MAIN BLOG — Authority: 132
  reports: Leland Traiman, who runs a sperm bank in California, worries about his lesbian clients in more conservative parts of the country when he hears fellow gay rights activists talk about winning the right to wed. With 34 states lacking any legal recognition of same-sex relationships, Traiman wonders if all the ...
  2 weeks ago

• WA State’s Domestic Partnership Law Goes into Effect Tomorrow

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 155
  Yesterday Washington State officials (Governor Gregoire and Secretary of State Reed) certified the results of Referendum 71 — the measure that asked voters to approve or reject a comprehensive domestic partnership law passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor earlier in the ear.  Voters approved the law ...
  2 weeks ago

• WA: Everything But Marrige Law Takes Effect Thursday

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 155
  On Thursday, it will be 30 days since Election Day. Big deal, you say? It is a big deal. As John Marsh, Bob Teichman, Dee Peterson and others planning to celebrate outside the Snohomish County Courthouse know, the states new domestic partnership law takes effect Thursday. Voters approved it last month by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Same-sex partner benefits bill passes House committee

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  After much debate over gay rights and extending benefits packages, a House committee just passed legislation that would provide health care and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. By a vote of 23 to 12, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed the 2009 Domestic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Same-sex partner benefits bill passes House committee

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 477
  After much debate over gay rights and extending benefits packages, a House committee just passed legislation that would provide health care and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. By a vote of 23 to 12, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed the 2009 Domestic ...
  2 weeks ago

• RI: Profile of New Gay Rights Group Queer Action

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 155
  Gov. Don Carcieri is a staunch social conservative who headlined a fundraiser for an anti-gay marriage group and says same-sex couples have no civil right to marriage. So it surprised even some of Carcieri’s toughest critics when the Republican sat down this month for a tense but polite meeting with six ...
  2 weeks ago

• Same Sex Benefits Expanding Around the US

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 155
  With public attention focused largely on battles over whether gay couples should be able to marry, a less-noticed movement to grant health and other benefits to same-sex partners is gaining significant ground across the country in courtrooms, in legislatures and at the ballot box. In New York last week, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anti-Gay Bill May Have Eliminated All Marriages in Texas

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 141
  Once again, no disrespect to the fine people of Texas, but yall have the funniest stories. Take, for instance, this Ft. Worth Star-Telegram article, about how anti-gay zealots may have accidentally eliminated marriage for everyone in the state. Read on : Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Leaked Levi Johnston, Catholics Pursue Anglicans,Christians Compare Gay Marriage To Incest, Caster Semenya, Longhorn Rally, Bash Back Denial, Tom Ford

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 139
  They are not rather revealing, but Playgirl has leaked two more images from the Levi Johnston photo shoot, nonetheless it is Levi and he is curiously cute. The presumptive heads of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England met Saturday in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekly Political Roundup

  
  Mombian — Authority: 472
  U.S. National News The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee approved the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act , which would offer the same benefits, including health insurance and pensions, to same-sex partners of federal workers and to opposite-sex spouses. (This news comes via the DC ...
  3 weeks ago

• US OPM Director lauds passage of Federal Domestic Partnership Benefits Act

  
  MileHighGayGuy — Authority: 437
  Yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Management approved H.R. 2517, the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009, sponsored by Representative Tammy Baldwin. The measure extends benefits to the domestic partners of Federal employees, including participation in the Federal ...
  3 weeks ago

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