Below is a guest commentary I wrote and submitted to Bay Windows this week, regarding Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders’ (GLAD) challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act filed on Tuesday. I previously wrote on this subject at Q-Notes‘ blog, assembloge. Guest Opinion DOMA cha...

A number of same-sex spouses and widows who were legally married in Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that a 1996 federal law discriminates against married same-sex couples by limiting certain protections and benefits that are normally provided to married...

blogs: Today, the legal organization GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) filed a lawsuit challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which, in pertinent part, denies same-sex married couples every single Federal benefit related to marriage. The suit, brought on behalf of eight...

The Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) have filed a federal challenge to Section 3 of the Defense Of Marriage Act in a Boston court. GLAD filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Boston on behalf of eight married couples and three surviving spouses from Massachusetts who have been ...

This afternoon, over a hundred people were out on High Street in Columbus, Ohio, freezin’ for a reason. As mounted police looked on and passing cars honked in support, people spoke and chanted and waved flags as they called for the repeal of anti-marriage laws that shove same-sex couples into ...

Saturday is the day some pressure will start to be exerted on the single person most responsible for the passage of Proposition 8, to keep his campaign promise and lead the congress in repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, the measure, signed by Bill Clinton, which embeds discrimination into the fe...

Bad cops, no donuts! That’s one of Andy Thayer’s favorite chants. Andy is a hard working longtime activist fighting for gay and lesbian rights with the Gay Liberation Network. Andy is leading this weekend’s demonstration against the Defense of Marriage Act. Will President Elect Oba...

Just wondering if any of my gay and lesbian friends are beginning to get it on the big nothing that Obama Pride is. We have discussed how Barack Obama, after much vacillating, promised to get DOMA repealed, but when there was a bill in the Senate to repeal one small part of the law, he declined to s...

Obama And One-Man, One-Woman Marriage Sen. Obama reminded us this week that he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, something LGBT people might have easily forgotten over the course of the primary. By Kerry Eleveld, The Advocate The general election has begun in earnest. Sen. Barack Obama...

Hey gay boys and girls--If you are in love and want to get hitched ,by all means, go to California and put some flowers in your hair. But don't do it because you want to be some kind of gay hero. That is what a number of gay and lesbian rights groups are asking of those who feel this is the golden o...