by admin | Jul 11, 2014 | Articles, Equality, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT
Will Congress soon have its first openly gay Republican representative? Many are speculating about the impending political and historical first as two openly gay Republican candidates, Richard Tisei and Carl DeMaio, run for seats in Congress. How would an openly gay...
by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Articles, News, Power LGBT
The momentum within the gay rights movement is palpable, and conservatives and liberals alike can feel it. In the aftermath of the strike down of DOMA and Prop 8, human rights groups and pro-marriage equality politicians are aggressively taking action to ensure...
by admin | Jun 14, 2013 | Articles, News, Power LGBT
In 2008, California voters passed a measure that would make same-sex marriage illegal. Now infamous, the measure was called “Proposition 8,” and the challenge to it, Hollingsworth v. Perry, has now made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments...
by admin | Apr 15, 2013 | Articles, News, Power LGBT, Resources & Info
Not all of us were lucky enough to be able to physically be at the Supreme Court last month as the arguments for and against California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) were presented. The media certainly did its job of covering the events,...
by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | News
In a monumental vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which had previously been approved by the Senate. This year’s passage of the Act was of particular importance because it included protections for both Native...