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Blog post: Hospital Visitation Regulations for LGBT Families, Effective Tuesday Jan. 18

Jan 19, 2011 / Posted by Allegra — 0 comments

New federal regulations regarding patients' hospital visitation rights went into effect yesterday, Tuesday January 18.

On April 15, 2010, President Barack Obama released a Memorandum regarding Hospital Visitation, in which he identified that:

LGBT Americans are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent ...

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Blog post: Obama Orders that Hospitals Respect Same-Sex Partners

Apr 20, 2010 / Posted by Allegra — 0 comments

Last week on April 15 President Obama sent a memorandum to the secretary of his Health and Human Services agency, Kathleen Sebelius, ordering that she ensure that all hospitals getting Medicaid or Medicare funding (which is most hospitals in the United States) honor all patients' advance care directives. This includes ...

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Blog post: BREAKING NEWS: NY Gives Same-Sex Partners Medical Decision-Making Rights!!

Feb 25, 2010 / Posted by Erik — 0 comments

HUGE news for same-sex domestic partner couples in New York State. In an email announcement just sent out, the Empire State Pride Agenda is announcing that, after nearly two decades of being stalled in the NY State Legislature, the NY State Senate today joined the State Assembly in passing the ...

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Blog post: Obama Signs Federal Hate Crimes Bill!!

Oct 29, 2009 / Posted by Erik — 2 comments

October is National LGBT History Month...and so it is exceptionally appropriate that yesterday (Oct. 28th, 2009) a historic event occurred for the queer community: President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

The new law, named for Matthew Shepard and James ...