Texas Gay Couple Find 'Leave Or Die Fags' Spraypainted On Porch
Texas LGBT rights advocates have come to the couple's defense. "Joshua Harrison and Jeremy Jeffers should not have to live in fear in their own home simply because of their sexual orientation," officials for Equality Texas noted in a statement, as ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Justices open big term with new human rights case
The next nine months hold the prospect for major rulings on affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights. The term that .... The South Carolina and Texas cases involve voter identification laws; a similar Indiana law was previously upheld by the ...www.sfgate.com
Austin City Council endorses same-sex marriage
Council members said the endorsement will land them on the right side of history and compared gay marriage to women's suffrage and civil rights.www.statesman.com
Austin Texas Passes Gay Marriage
The Austin City Council endorsed marriage equality on Thursday making Austin the first Texas city to evolve on gay marriage. Council members said the endorsement will land them on the right side of history & compared gay marriage to women's suffrage ...blog.outtakeonline.com
Austin Supports Gay Marriage. So What Happens Next?
Proponents of gay marriage in Texas scored a symbolic victory this week when Austin City Council became the first in the state to adopt a resolution supporting same-sex marriage.www.kutnews.org
Austin City Council supports same-sex marriage
"It's very telling of the environment of the city we live in and sends a message to Texas that Austin stands with its LGBT citizens" said Austin Human Rights Commissioner Elizabeth Brenner. Adviser to the PRIDE group on St. Edward's campus, Professor ...www.hilltopviewsonline.com
Gay Marriage An Issue As Supreme Court Term Begins
This new Supreme Court term also offers the prospect of major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.www.pridesource.com
Witherspoon Scholar Was 'Paid Consultant' On Parenting Study
When University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus released a study this summer portraying gay parents in a negative light, he insisted that the conservative funders who backed the research had no involvement in how it was designed, implemented, or ...thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
WATCH: Austin Becomes First City In Texas To Support Gay Marriage
On Thursday, the Austin City Council unanimously adopted a resolution declaring its intent to support marriage equality in Texas, making Austin the first city in the Lone Star State to do so. "It is a statement in support. We know from the civil rights ...www.queerty.com
Former LSU student's case before US Supreme Court
The justices are expected to tackle several hot-button issues, including affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights, after returning to the bench Monday.theadvocate.com
Supreme Court won't hear cases on body scanners, gay marriage foes, 'roadless ...
Won't hear case: Gay marriage foes challenge disclosure of names. The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure law requiring it to release its donor list. The ...www.mercurynews.com
The High Court's Next Land Mines
For 40 years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that public universities, like the University of Texas, whose admissions policy is at issue in the case to be decided this term, can use race as one factor in deciding which students to admit ...www.thedailybeast.com
What's missing from pro-gay marriage TV ads? Gays
A third features a pastor talking supportively about gay unions. Each of these ads ran recently in states with gay marriage issues on the November ballot. What's missing? Gay people speaking for themselves. Four states are voting on gay marriage this ...www.khq.com
New Supreme Court term: gay marriage, affirmative action, voting rights
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is starting a new term that is shaping up to be as important as the last one, with the prospect of major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights. Three months after the court upheld President ...www.mercurynews.com
Regnerus Anti-Gay Scandal: Open Letter To Texas Attorney General
We have been reporting on a politically-motivated hoax "study" of supposedly gay and lesbian parents, funded through the National Organization For Marriage-linked Witherspoon Institute and carried out by Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at ...thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
Gay marriage, voting rights and more: Another big Supreme Court term kicks off ...
The challengers of the Texas program and the university itself cite Kennedy's prior writings on affirmative action a combined 50 times.blog.al.com
Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense
Since then, many states have banned gay marriage but several have approved it, including Massachusetts and New York. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said last week she believes the Defense of Marriage Act will reach the Supreme Court within the next year.www.wbtv.com
US Supreme Court opens new term today
The justices appeared ready to impose new limits on lawsuits brought in U.S. courts over human rights violations abroad. The argument was the first in a term that holds the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting ...www.dallasnews.com
'Just Outside Redemption': Harrowing look at the struggle for gay rights
In 1997, a gay man out walking his dog is brutally beaten in a park right outside of Redemption, TX. This is the first image that greets us as the lights rise on "Just Outside Redemption", the latest from up-and-coming Austin company Theatre en Bloc ...www.examiner.com
Race, gay marriage, voting rights on tap in new Supreme Court term starting ...
By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press | Oct 1, 2012 3:39 AM CDT in. The Supreme Court is starting a new term that is shaping up to be as important as the last one, with the prospect of major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.www.newser.com
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