A dozen LGBT students at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, including student Andy Swenson, have formed an informal gay-straight alliance on campus, Newsweek reports. Swenson and others are bent on gaining official club status for their GSA, but that may be harder than it sounds. Bethel University is a college founded on strict evangelical [...]
Former Georgia senator Sam Nunn, who was one of the primary lawmakers involved in the passage of the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibiting gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, on Tuesday called on the government to review the law. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is widely seen by gays as infringing [...]
Same-sex marriages in California can begin this month, declared the state’s supreme court on Wednesday. In a 4-3 vote, the justices rejected a request by conservative groups to stay their May 15 ruling legalizing same-sex marriages until voters have a chance to vote on their legality in the November election, reported the Los Angeles Times. [...]
M.V. Lee Badgett, research director at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law, estimates that gay weddings could add $370 million to the state economy over the next three years, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times. Wedding planners, bakers, florists, caterers, and hotels [...]