The U.S. House of Representatives sole lesbian member will introduce a bill targeted at providing gay federal employees many of the same rights as their straight co-workers in a domestic partnership bill timed to join up with a matching Senate version of the bill sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman ...

"The partners of gay and lesbian state workers would be able to get health insurance coverage under a bill given initial backing by the Senate on Monday. The measure (Senate Bill 88) would add domestic partners to the list of dependents eligible for coverage. Same-sex partners who have been in ...

With the economy ever tanking, now is as good a time as any to take stock of where your gay dollars are going. You may not have much (or, thanks to prudent investing in gold and shares in Mr. Hobo J. Poverschmidt's Hobo Sticks Emporium, you may have quite a bit), so why spend it on companies wh...

Today's New York Times carries an op-ed written by Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn which proposes a compromise on gay marriage: Whatever our disagreements on the merits of gay marriage, we agree on two facts. First, most gay and lesbian Americans feel they need and deserve the perquisites and p...

New Mexico is moving closer towards enacting a domestic partnership bill for the first time. New Mexico is an interesting case, because it does not have a law banning same-sex marriage nor has it had any initiatives to ban the practice. There have also been no lawsuits or legislative actions to enac...

Washington state legislators have put forth a bill to extend the state's domestic partnership benefits. The bill attempts to complete the inclusion of domestic partners everywhere Washington law addresses married people. The Seattle Times reports that state Senator Ed Murray and Representative Jami...

(Top, L-R) Roosevelt Coats, TJ Dow, Terrell H. Pruitt; (Bottom, L-R) Phyllis Cleveland, Sabra Pierce Scott (Majority Leader), Kenneth Johnson. I'm not trying to create a—uh—blacklist, but even though we have the great news that the Cleveland City Council has passed a domestic partnership reg...

One week ago, the California Supreme Court released its landmark decision In Re Marriage Cases, ruling 4-3 that 2000's proposition 22 as well as the current California marriage statute were unconstitutional (Section 308.5 and Section 300 of the California Family Code, respectively). There has been s...

The California Supreme Court today has decided that it is Unconstitutional to limit "marriages" to opposite-sex couples.  Marriage cannot be limited to a union "between a man and a woman." The ruling recognizes the right of same-sex couples to engage in the ritual of "m...

Particularly: § 29. Marriage. No union other than a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as marriage or the functional equivalent of marriage by the Commonwealth. no civil unions no common law marriages no domestic partnerships Last night, the Pennsylvania Senate vote...