(Trenton, New Jersey) Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to stop discriminating against gays and lesbians. The company has long refused to provide services to gays. In 2005 New Jersey resident Eric McKinley filed a formal complaint with the state Division on Civil Rights. For more than three years, eHarmony vigorously ... Full story...
(Sacramento, California) Three new laws broadening protections for California's LGBT community have gone into effect.
(Washington) A new law signed by President Bush will protect domestic partners who inherit retirement savings.
(Portland, Oregon) Portland became the nation's largest city with an openly gay mayor as a longtime City Hall insider took the oath of office.
(Little Rock, Arkansas) More than a dozen families are challenging a new Arkansas law banning unmarried couples living together from becoming foster or adoptive parents.
(Washington) Federal regulators have approved a new HIV test that screens for two, less common forms of the virus.
(New Orleans, Louisiana) The state of Louisiana is preparing to appeal a federal court ruling that both names of a gay couple must appear on the birth certificate of their adopted son.
(Richmond, California) Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian.
(Madrid) Tens of thousands of people attended a Mass in central Madrid just before Christmas designed to promote traditional family values in a predominantly Roman Catholic country that has legalized gay marriage and made it easier for people to divorce.
President-Obama is nothing if not politically savvy.
Perhaps as a bone to gays upset over Rick Warren's invitation to give the opening prayer during the inaugural ceremony, the openly lesbian Rep.
(London) Britain's Court of Appeal has reversed a lower court ruling that had said a man was not entitled to file a homophobic harassment case against his former employer because he is heterosexual.
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