Top Three Lessons from the Prop 8 Trial
December 9, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 3 Comments
California’s gay marriage ban, Prop 8, was back in court this week for what is likely to be the last of the many appeals hearings. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals weighed two matters: First, ...Read More
BREAKING: Prop 8 Ruling Is Both Bad and Good News for Same-Sex Marriage
November 17, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
It’s been 470 days since Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8, the California constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. But rather than immediately restore legal ...Read More
One Step Closer to Repealing the Federal Gay Marriage Ban!
November 11, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 in support of the Respect for Marriage Act [PDF], a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) banning gay marriage and end 15 years ...Read More
5 Questions To Ask Defenders of DOMA
November 3, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 4 Comments
Opponents of marriage equality have grown so accustomed to parroting the same arguments over and over again that they don’t seem to notice the ground shifting under their feet. Such is the point ...Read More
Backward and in High Heels: Sandra Day O’Connor
September 25, 2011 by Meg Waite Clayton · 3 Comments
Chief Justice Warren Burger, one hand on Sandra Day O’Connor’s arm as they descended the steps of the Supreme Court just before her 2 p.m. swearing-in ceremony on September 25, 1981, shouted ...Read More
A Mixed Victory in the Texas Cheerleader Rape Case
September 14, 2011 by Caroline Heldman · 6 Comments
The Texas cheerleader who sued her high school for forcing her to cheer for her rapist will not have to pay the school’s entire $35,000 in legal fees, according to a decision yesterday from the ...Read More
British Judges Free Child Rapists, Say 12-Year-Old Girls “Wanted” Sex
July 22, 2011 by Stephanie Hallett · 104 Comments
In March, six British soccer players confessed to gang-raping two 12-year-old girls and were sentenced to two years behind bars. But last week, an Appeal Court overturned the sentence, and all of ...Read More
Respect Marriage, Repeal DOMA!
July 20, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · Leave a Comment
The past 24 hours have been exciting ones for supporters of gay marriage rights. If the President and progressive members of the Senate get their way, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is on its ...Read More
Obama Administration Says Marriage is Between a Woman and a Woman
July 6, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
Karen Golinski has a wife. She and Amy Cunninghis have been legally married in the state of California since August of 2008. And now, even the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) ...Read More
How Gender Gets Stopped at the Border
July 2, 2011 by Kyle Bachan · 1 Comment
Looking to go into the shoe importing business? Be prepared to pay more to get women’s shoes across the border. Or maybe you have an itch to sell cotton shirts? Be prepared to pony up more for the ...Read More
