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| | Gay rights timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 1995 in gay rights - Sweden legalizes registered partnerships (civil unions) with all the rights of marriage except for marriage in a church and adoption. | | | The Supreme Court of Canada rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited ground of discrimination under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. | | | Israel’s supreme court defines gay-couple’s rights same as any common-law-couple’s rights. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_rights_timeline
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| | Forum: Gay as a civil right ajc.com |
| | Whether marriage itself is considered a civil rights issue or not, the fight for the recognition of same sex couples is a civil rights issue because of all the priviliges that accompany legally recognized marriage. | | | Gay Marriage is most definitly a civil rights issue although it is not exactly the same as the civil rights struggle for blacks. | | | Gay rights advocates use "civil rights" terminology because they know no one wants to be accused of violating civil rights. |
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http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0304/forum_gaywed.html
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| | SpeakOut.com - Gay Rights |
| | Gays and lesbians may join in "civil unions," which are no expected to be recognized by other states and will not entitle the partners to federal benefits. | | | The Unions are "certified" either by justices of the peace, judge, or willing member of the clergy. | | | Civil Union couples also have the right to dissolve their unions through a "dissolution" process in Family Court. |
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http://www.speakout.com/activism/gayrights
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| | [ The Dook ] |
| | Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities. | | | ARGUMENTS AGAINST: A constitutional prohibition is unnecessary because Texas law already prohibits same& marriage and prohibits the recognition by the state or its political subdivisions of a same& marriage, a civil union, or a right or claim asserted as a result of a same& marriage or a civil union. | | | A constitutional prohibition is inappropriate because it limits future state legislators' flexibility to promote the health and safety of families in whatever form those families may take. |
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| | Gay Rights: Overview |
| | In 1989, Denmark became the first nation to grant legal rights to gay couples, calling such unions âdomestic partnershipsâ that grant many of the same legal rights as marriage. | | | Hawaii, California, Maine and New Jersey have all enacted domestic partnership laws, granting gay and lesbian couples many but not all of the legal rights of marriage. | | | The right to marry or have their relationships recognized in âcivil unions.â |
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http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/overview.cfm?issue_type=gay_rights
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| | BBC NEWS UK UK Politics New rights for gay couples |
| | Gay and lesbian couples will be awarded the same legal rights as married couples under plans outlined by the government. | | | While the consultation paper does not use the term "gay marriage", the new Civil Partnership Registration Scheme seems to have been designed to be as close to a marriage contract as possible. | | | Have rights to claim for partners' death under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3031332.stm
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| | Gay Rights starter ItsYourTimes.com |
| | Society ordains slavery (indentured servitude?) in the case of the military. | | | Amid efforts around the country to embrace some form of gay marriage, Florida groups are now on the verge of putting on the ballot a constitutional amendment that would outlaw such same-sex arrangements. | | | These nations are not floating in Dante's inferno; if anything, they're more respected and prosperous now that they have given all their citizens the right to a happy and mutual coexistence, sanctioned by the protections of the law. |
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| | Where the Dolphins Play - <$CategoryName$> |
| | Were I part of a gay couple involved in such a case I would argue simply that the sate must recognize my union because it was not identical or even similar to marriage since the amendment states that marriage required one man and one woman. | | | Some posts may quote from copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner (credit will be given to copyright owner). | | | The case is made particularly interesting to me in light of the Supreme Court's hearing the Solomon amendment case. |
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http://www.dolphinsdock.com/blog/archives/cat_gayrights.php
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| | Take Action: Support Marriage Equality for ALL! |
| | I believe that marriage and other civil rights protections are essential to making all families safer and more secure. | | | Please, sign the Million For Marriage petition below, and be a part of this historic civil rights battle. | | | But we need your help to fight efforts to deny marriage rights to same-sex couples, including any Constitutional amendment. |
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| | USATODAY.com |
| | Supports right to gay marriage and would seek federal law to protect civil unions from any abridgment by states if courts do not recognize those rights. | | | The cutting edge of the issue is where candidates stand on the issue of gay marriage vs. civil unions. | | | Opposes gay marriage, supports right to civil unions. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/issues/gayrights.htm
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| | Supreme Court Victory Protects Lesbian / Gay Rights |
| | Invigorated by a historic victory when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Colorado's Amendment 2, lesbian and gay rights activists now are focused on attacks against same-sex marriage and new versions of hostile ballot measures. | | | The Court specifically rejected the radical right's strategy that gay rights are "special rights." "We find nothing special in the protections Amendment 2 withholds. | | | Although a district court injunction prevented the amendment from taking effect, civil rights organizations led a boycott that cost the state an estimated $40 million in lost tourism. |
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| | Gay right - The Stranger - Home |
| | Advocating individual rights by litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom. | | | Ebony: Is gay rights a civil rights issue? | | | Full text of the article, 'Is gay rights a civil rights issue? |
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| | Houston Voice Online |
| | I think you‘re right there—was—this case was about whether or not you can put an ad in the paper that says, I want to rent this apartment, but no gays need apply, or, I want to put up a for-hire sign that says, no lesbians will be hired for this job. | | | That was in 1996, when the court struck down a Colorado law allowing employers and landlords to exclude gays from jobs and housing. | | | You know, I—if I were an attorney, I‘d certainly fight for the right of gays or anyone else to be employed or be housed wherever they wished to be housed. |
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http://www.houstonvoice.com/2005/8-26/news/national/falwell.cfm
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| | Dennis Kucinich on LGBTQ Rights |
| | It is a victory for all Americans who believe, as I do, that the promise of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights should be upheld for everyone. | | | What those laws do not do, and what they cannot do, is extend the comparable federal protections and rights to those same partners. | | | In Massachusetts, the law will now extend legal benefits, protections, and obligations of civil marriage to same-sex couples: family leave, health care and visitation, retirement and survivor benefits, property rights, and scores of others. |
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| | Badnarik for Congress |
| | When government permission is granted, the marriage constitutes a legal, binding contract, with terms that vary over time and with the location of residence. | | | Today, of course, government decides if a couple is even permitted to marry through a licensing process. | | | Is such marriage a basic human right or an abomination that should never be sanctioned? |
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| | "Judicial activism and "homosexual sodomy."" |
| | Vermont (1997), the Supreme Court of Vermont ruled that the state's constitution required that the legal benefits of marriage must be extended to "same sex couples." The Court cited language in Chapter 1, Article 7, which was first adopted in 1777 and last amended in 1786. | | | Justice White was too delicate to mention it but, in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was ratified, nine of the original thirteen states provided the death penalty for sodomy. | | | (In 1981) the European Court of Human Rights held that the laws proscribing (homosexual) conduct were invalid under the European Convention on Human Rights. |
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| | Human Rights Watch - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trangender Human Rights |
| | Human Rights Watch comments on the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (the Draft Convention) could further address the particular concerns of disabled women and girls. | | | U.S. state governments should extend civil marriage to same-sex partners to ensure the equality of gay and lesbian people, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. | | | In voting for a constitutional amendment to criminalize marriage between persons of the same sex, Uganda’s parliament has struck a gratuitous blow for prejudice and against basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. |
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| | Blagojevich Signs Gay Rights Bill |
| | It is enforced by the Illinois Department of Human Rights. | | | Now, with Blagojevich’s signature, Illinois became the 15th state in the nation to extend its human rights law to offer equal protection for its gay and lesbian citizens. | | | The new law adds sexual orientation to the classes of people protected by the state’s Human Rights Act. |
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| | Gay Rights and the Constitution |
| | Was the Court right in Bowers to view the case as one for an as applied review? | | | (The provision, Amendment 2, effectively repealed anti-discrimination laws in Boulder, Aspen, and Denver.) By a 6 to 3 vote, the Court found the Colorado provision to lack a rational basis, and therefore to violate the equal protection rights of homosexuals. | | | Predictably, Justice Scalia dissented, accusing the majority of "largely signing on to the so-called homosexual agenda." |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/gayrights.htm
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| | BBC News UK POLITICS Tories relax stance on gay rights |
| | The bill, proposed by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester and backed by gay rights group Stonewall, would see the establishment of "civil partnerships", provides for the registration of the partnership and sets out the ensuing legal consequences. | | | Lord Lester said: "The Bill enables men and women to come together to form a caring relationship of mutual support protected by law. | | | "If Tories were either up to date or committed to civil rights they would, without compromising the sanctity and status of marriage, support the Liberal Democrat Civil Partnerships Bill." |
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| | Welcome to the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights |
| | State representatives and senators are attempting to amend our state constitution to deny gay, lesbian and unmarried families legal recognition. | | | The Pennsylvania Superior Court issued a ruling September 27, 2005 in a custody case between lesbian moms that affirms that Pennsylvania’s non-biological, non-adoptive same-sex parents have the right to primary custody of their children. | | | IMPORTANT NOTICE: The information provided within this website is not intended to be legal advice and visitors to this website should not act upon this information without consulting with legal counsel. |
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http://www.center4civilrights.org
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| | The American Gay Rights Movement: A Timeline |
| | The Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia legalized same-sex marriage in 2003, numerous other provinces followed suit in 2004, and on June 29, 2005, the Canadian parliament passed a bill legalizing gay marriage throughout the country. | | | Massachusetts' gay marriage debate taking on form, rhetoric of civil rights movement | | | On May 17, same-sex marriages become legal in Massachusetts. |
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| | Gay Rights Watch |
| | The Task Force will be chaired by Portland businessperson Paul Kelly, will make a recommendation on the proposal to ensure that all of state government affords the same rights and privileges to all Oregonians to the greatest extent permitted under federal law and the Oregon Constitution. | | | The task force will not only examine Oregon's laws, but will also analyze anti-discrimination statutes adopted by other states, as well as related bills introduced during the 2005 session of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. | | | Basic Rights Oregon's Roey Thorpe made the following statement: |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Lesbian Gay Rights |
| | KS Supreme Court Reverses Conviction of Unfairly Punished Gay Teen | | | AK Supreme Court Rules Lesbian and Gay State Employees Must Get Benefits | | | American Civil Liberties Union : Lesbian Gay Rights |
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http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRightsMain.cfm
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| | How America's gay rights establishment is failing gay Iranians |
| | The moral argument is that Americans are in no position to criticize Iranians on human rights--that it would be wrong to campaign too loudly against Iranian abuses when the United States has so many problems of its own. | | | It's a question of resources." I would argue, however, that any organization premised upon the universality of inalienable rights and liberties ought to take as part of its mission the fate of those rights and liberties everywhere. | | | Last month, when Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to New York to visit the United Nations, he was greeted by thousands of Iranian protesters from the United States and overseas. |
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| | 1950 in gay rights |
| | Human Rights Unit Responsibilities are the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates into UK law rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, and various other Human Rights Treaties. | | | rights minors rights parents rights renters rights resale rights animal rights rights regarding cosigners victims rights voting rights womens rights individual rights human rights childrens rights | | | Includes information and history on the rights and issues facing youth, rights of students in schools, advancing the rights |
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| | Gay rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the talk page. | | | It was during this era that direct action groups such as ACT UP and Queer Nation were formed. | | | A better documented group is Henry Gerber’s Society for Human Rights formed in Chicago in 1924), which was quickly suppressed (Bullough 2005). |
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| | CBC News Indepth: SAME-SEX Rights |
| | But on Dec. 9, 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Ottawa does have exclusive jurisdiction to decide who has the right to get married in this country – but that religious groups are not obliged to perform unions against their beliefs. | | | After being passed by the Senate, the same-sex marriage legislation received royal assent as Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, acting in her role as deputy governor general, signed it into law. | | | The draft legislation would also recognize the rights of religious groups to "sanctify marriage as they see fit." The decision meant the federal government would not appeal lower court rulings that same-sex couples had the same right to marry as opposite-sex couples. |
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| | Milestones in the Gay Rights Movement |
| | A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith; With Legal Equality in the National Dialogue, Activists Shift Focus to Public Acceptance | | | Many state and local governments and private corporations followed suit. | | | Many large cities included sexual orientation in their civil rights statutes, as did Wisconsin and Massachusetts, first among the states to do so....[In 1975] the Civil Service Commission eliminated the ban on the employment of homosexuals in most federal jobs. |
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| | GLAAD: Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representation |
| | It took 30 years, but sexual orientation is now included among civil rights protections in the state of Washington thanks to passage of the Anderson-Murray Anti-Discrimination Bill. | | | Maryland Senate candidate and former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said he supports marriage for gays and lesbians. | | | Maryland judge rules that state cannot exclude gay, lesbian couples from marriage. |
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| | Irish Bishop backs gay rights Headlines News Gay.com UK |
| | Dr Willie Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland, said that, while he has "difficulty" with same-sex marriage, he does not see any problem with civil unions that are similar to the Civil Partnership bill currently being debated for the UK. | | | The system could well be similar to that on offer in France and Germany, or to the bill currently passing through Westminster. | | | Belgium and the Netherlands offer full marriage rights to same-sex couples, while Spain is set to offer them in the near future. |
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| | The Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby |
| | Your details will be passed onto the coordinator for your nominated event/s who will contact you with further information. | | | Jenni Millbank Special Advisor to Watts McCray Lawyers and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney will be answering your questions regarding relationship rights and the law. | | | Jenni Millbank, Special Advisor to Watts McCray Lawyers and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, answers your questions. |
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| | gay_rights - Community Info |
| | Differences of opinions are respected but must be expressed civily. | | | You may leave the community at any time. | | | Below is information about the "Gay Rights" community on LiveJournal. |
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| | Malta Gay Rights Movement - |
| | In order to avoid being discriminated against or harassed on the ground of gender expression, this anonymous individual has prohibited MGRM from publishing his name. | | | MGRM members have the right to democratically participate in shaping the organisation’s short and long-term work and to become directly involved in it, through voting and/or through contestation of the elections. | | | During the AGM various important matters will be dealt, including giving an account of what was achieved in the year 2005, as well as the election of a new Committee for the year 2006. |
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| | GAY RIGHTS INFO HOME PAGE |
| | he is for same-sex marriage rights, please donate | | | I do not give out e-mail information from the letters I receive. | | | I have obtained this information from reputable sources like Gay Newspapers and National Gay Organizations Etc. Newspapers and organizations do make mistakes, and so do I. Please let me know if you find something incorrect or if you have something to add. |
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| | NYT: Microsoft faces new criticism on gay rights position - Apr. 22, 2005 |
| | Dow Jones Newswires 04-22-05 0443ET Copyright (C) 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | | | The bill, or similar versions of it, has been introduced repeatedly over three decades; it failed by one vote Thursday in the State Senate. | | | Gay rights advocates denounced Microsoft, which had supported the bill for the last two years, for abandoning their cause, the report said. |
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| | Technorati Tag: gay |
| | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | The Caption Reads: all agree that this is the most invasive... | | | According to this article, Arnold Schwarzenegger is in hot water with the Republicans over his chief of staff, LGBT activist Susan Kennedy. |
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| | The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force |
| | January 31 – National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Gang of 14 filibuster deal gets Alito through to Supreme Court seat | | | January 30 – National Gay and Lesbian Task Force applauds senators' call for filibuster; urges Senate to reject Samuel Alito nomination | | | Hispanic and Latino Same-Sex Couple Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census |
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| | Queer Lesbian Gay News -- Gay.com |
| | Lawyers for Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland have filed a motion to dismiss an anti-lesbian bias suit against her. | | | Gay.com - Gay chat, personals, news, information and more! | | | You are seeing this message because you are using an older or unsupported browser, or because your browser does not recognize stylesheets. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Special report: gay rights |
| | February 6: Cameroon has been rocked by an anti-gay crusade in newspapers that have accused more than 50 prominent figures of homosexuality. | | | 06.02.06 50 public figures named in gay witchhunt by Cameroon's papers | | | December 19, audio: Britain's first single-sex civil partnership ceremony has taken place, despite protests from religious campaigners, reports Angelique Chrisafis from Belfast. |
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| | Gay & Lesbian Rights |
| | Delaware's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) community now has an identified organization willing to take a stand on the issue of civil rights for lesbians and gays. | | | The local group falls under the governance of the Board. | | | The project is patterned after the National ACLU Lesbian and Gay project. |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union: 404 |
| | Try browsing by topic using the navigation menus (at right or above). | | | Most links will automatically redirect to the page's new location, but if you have a problem finding something, please try one of these options: | | | Use the ACLU website's site search engine (above right). |
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| | Gay Rights - International |
| | Founded to fill the gap between the international human rights movement and the gay rights movement, neither of which fully addressed human rights violations against sexual minorities. | | | International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | | | In English (available in German and Spanish) in PDF format from the |
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| | GAY.COM UK & Ireland |
| | Pressure is growing on TV presenter Lowri Turner after she claimed gay men were not fit to be in politics. | | | Say hello with Chat, Video Chat, e-mail or an instant message. | | | Become a member for free and find what you're looking for. |
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