(Chicago, Illinois) Facing growing criticism over a proposed high school for LGBT students, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday said he had serious misgivings about the proposal. The mayor spoke out a day after the Chicago Board of Education put off voting on the Social Justice High School—Pride Campus. Wednesday night, board ... Full story...
The Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league team to have an openly gay owner according to the Windy City Times.
(Olympia, Wash.) Washington voters have approved the state's new "everything but marriage" law, expanding rights for domestic partners and marking the first time any state's voters have approved a gay equality measure at the ballot box.
STATEMENT OF THOMAS E. PEREZ ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS, UNITED STATES SENATE
“EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT: ENSURING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL AMERICANS”
PRESENTED NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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Thomas E. Perez, head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, testified before a Senate committee that the Obama Administration supports ENDA.
(San Francisco) Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads - and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement - for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the gay-marriage debate.
The New York Post reported today that a New York City taxi driver kicked a gay couple out of his vehicle after he saw them hugging in the backseat.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that a task force formed in reaction to the Rainbow Lounge Raid in Forth Worth, Tex.
(Houston) Houston won't know who its new mayor will be until next month.
City controller Annise Parker and former city attorney Gene Locke are headed to a runoff to become mayor of America's fourth-biggest city.
(Richmond, Va.) The new Republican governor-elect of Virginia brings to the office firmly conservative views that took root in the suburban, middle-class Irish Catholic home of his youth.
(Portland, Maine) Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.
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