By Sally Kohn
As the law plays catch-up, Judge Vaughn Walker includes an eloquent analysis of changing gender roles in declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Commentator Sally Kohn argues that the next step should go even further.
Rallies in California and around the U.S. marked the district court ruling.
The recent Federal District Court ruling declaring Proposition 8 [...]
Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s decision on Wednesday to strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage was certainly a triumph over discrimination, not only for same-sex couples in California, but for women across America. Reaching beyond a statement on orientation, or the ways in which our government confers benefits to citizens, Judge Walker’s was ultimately a [...]
By Alexis Sclamberg
In a strongly worded ruling, the Defense of Marriage Act falls in federal court to a combined challenge by GLAD and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Gay rights activists cheered Federal District Judge Joseph Tauro’s ruling last Thursday, July 8, striking down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional. Judge Tauro’s decision [...]
On June 19, Judith Butler declined the Civil Courage prize awarded to her by Berlin Pride, citing her wishes to distance herself from the group’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim statements.
In a speech delivered in German during the award ceremony, the well-known professor of queer studies said, “I must distance myself from this complicity with racism, including [...]
Go progressive once, props to you. Go progressive twice and uh, props to you again! Go progressive THREE TIMES, and someone might mistake you for a liberal. So has gone the trajectory of Laura Bush in the past few weeks, as revelations from her memoir out the former First Lady as not only pro-choice, but [...]
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). Just as Sexism Sells, so too does bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, the most recent example being media rumors over the sexual identity of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and the White House’s disappointing response to this “charge.” [...]
By Betsy Wade
That the sexual identity of the Supreme Court nominee might be regarded as anyone’s business but her own strikes the author, lead plaintiff in the 1974 women’s discrimination law suit against the New York Times, as a sad anachronism.
The named plaintiffs in Boylan v. Times, March 15, 1986. The author, Betsy Wade [...]
Much has already been made of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal front page photo of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan stepping up to the plate for a softball game in 1993. Some leaders in the LGBT community have called it “too easy a punchline,” after national gossip last month insinuated that Kagan is a lesbian.
The photo [...]
At 10 am this morning, President Obama announced from the East Room of the White House his nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Kagan will be the third woman to join the current Supreme Court bench and the fourth woman to serve in the Supreme [...]
As if female athletes didn’t have to battle hard enough already for validation. First off, take the media’s coverage of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship where the University of Connecticut Women’s basketball team was torn apart for a less than perfect game, despite the fact of finishing a second perfect season in a row and [...]
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