by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
Back in July 2020, voters in anti-LGBT Russia passed a measure to amend the country’s constitution to redefine marriage and parenthood as a union between a “biological” man and woman. The measure passed with nearly 80 percent of voters in support, after years of...
by admin | Mar 27, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Just when countrywide marriage equality initiatives seem to be gaining momentum, news recently broke about how lawmakers in Idaho continue to vehemently oppose same-sex marriage. And not only do they disagree with it, as ThinkProgress explains, Republican lawmakers...
by admin | Feb 10, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
On February 9, 2015, Alabama became the 37th state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage. Despite the amazing – and somewhat surprising – news, like many other states, the new legislation did not come without a hard and dirty fight. On January 23rd, the...
by admin | Jan 16, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
The LGBTQ community and its allies cheered earlier this month when the United States Supreme Court announced that it would review the freedom to marry in 2015. Reports Adam Polaski on the Freedom to Marry blog, “Today, January 16, the United States Supreme Court...
by admin | Jan 8, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
A circuit judge lifted the stay on same-sex marriage in Miami-Dade county earlier this week, making it the first county in the state of Florida to allow same-sex couples to marry. The ruling was made a little more than 12 hours before marriage equality began for the...