A case separate from the recent rulings against Prop 8 another California judge has ruled DOMA unconstitutional.The ruling came from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco on the case of Plantiff Karen Golinski who worked as an atorney for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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In a 2-1 decision a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Prop 8 is unconstitutional.

However, this does not mean that same-sex marriages can resume in California. The court also declared it would give marriage opponents time to appeal the decision.

Fistpumping and happy dances aside, what does this mean ...

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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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 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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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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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 ...

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