Rachel Maddow devoted almost half of her Wednesday show to a lengthy interview with David Bahati, author of the infamous bill in the Ugandan Parliament that calls for gay people to face life imprisonment or, in some cases, execution if they are convicted of having practiced homosexuality. Bahati is also a member of The Family, [...]
The latest legal battle over same-sex marriage is in the hands of a panel of California federal appeals court judges. Proposition 8, a 2008 measure approved by California voters that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was the focal point of Monday’s Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing. Opponents [...]
Producers of ABC’s ‘Dancing With The Stars’ have decided that America isn’t quite ready to see a same-sex couple on the ballroom floor after their only choice, Ellen Degeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi, didn’t pan out. “If Portia had agreed then this would have been a done deal,” an ABC insider tells me. “She was [...]
Lesbian, gay and bisexual adolescents can become easy targets for school bullying. But a new study suggests that schools and police may be unfairly singling out lesbian, gay and bisexual adolescents too. The Hartford Courant reports that lesbian, gay and bisexual students were 40% more likely to be expelled from school, arrested, stopped by police [...]
The long-running fight over gay marriage in California heads to a federal appeals court Monday. A panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals must decide whether a federal judge was correct in ruling that the US Constitution protects the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry.