On the Saturday broadcast of NBC Nightly News, reporter Ron Allen offers a summary of the election battle in Maine to determine the survival of the state’s marriage equality law, which was passed last spring by the legislature and signed by Gov. John Balducci.
As TipsQ blog points out, the report includes some excellent video of lesbian couple with their children.
Allen summarizes the comments of Faith Moritz and Janet Jones who have been “partnered for 14 years. They have two six-year-old kids.”
“Marriage, they say, say means family security and rights and protections married couples get automatically. Full story...
A Montana lesbian couple had special reason to be thankful this week along with their three children—two older children and a four-year-old boy, Morrgan.
Recent headlines and links from lgbtQnews.com Twitter stream:
RT @QueerjohnPA @xtra_canada: Queer film experts baffled by detention of gay films at Canada's border [Link:NYTimes TV Watch] RT @nlgja: Adam Lambert - Community Standard or Double Standard? RT @greghernandez: Video: Neil Patrick Harris recommends the Muppets version of “Bohemian Rhapsody” RT @gayknowndonor: Meet the U.
Let me take a moment on this day dedicated (in the US) to giving thanks, to thank those who read this news-blog.
So, after all the pixels of virtual ink (and some of the real oil-based stuff, too) that’s been spilled since Adam Lambert’s American Music Awards performance, this seems the best response: Lambert singing “What Do You Want From Me” on the Early Show:
[[See embedded video at lgbtQnews]]
[After the break: The Early Show interview]
More.
::: Thousands of people, many holding candles, marched Wednesday evening in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a vigil celebrating the life of a gay teenager whose brutal murder has shocked people in Puerto Rico and throughout the US, Associated Press reports.
Demographer Gary Gates explains to NPR’s Jennifer Ludden the changes that will be made for the 2010 census which will, for the first time, count same-sex couples who identify themselves as spouses.
via mc4bbs.livejournal.com/
A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the City of Atlanta, the city’s police department, and up to 45 officers involved in a Sept.
::: The Charleston, SC city council on Tuesday passed a pair of inclusive non-discrimination ordinances that protect city resident in housing and public accommodations, Q-Notes, an LGBTQ news blog for the Carolinas reports.
We doubt that this will satisfy Elizabeth Hasselbeck from ABC’s The View, but Adam Lambert released this official video for his album’s title track, “For Your Entertainment”.
In a family snapshot, Brendan Burke poses with the Stanley Cup in 2007, shortly after his father’s team at the time, Anaheim Ducks, won it all
Brendan Burke is a student manager for the Miami of Ohio hockey team, one of the top programs in the country, and the son of Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke.
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