Austin's GLBT community and their allies came out on Wednesday for Equality Across America's Day of Decision Rally at Austin City Hall to celebrate the Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker's decision striking down California's Proposition 8 as unconstitutional.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker issued a written decision today ruling that California's voter-approved Proposition 8 was unconstitutional under both the due-process and equal-protection clauses.
The projected buying power of the gay market rose from $732 billion in 2009 to $743 billion in 2010, but is still down from projections from before the recent economic downturn that estimated buying power of $796 billion in 2010.
As media trends accelerate towards citizen-journalism and blogger-created news content, a new national survey again validates that gay and lesbian adults online today are among the nation's most loyal and heaviest blog readers and social network users.
President Obama asked the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Department to establish federal regulations that would prohibit hospitals that participate in Medicare or Medicaid from denying the visitation rights of gay and lesbian couples.
Warren Calls "Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009" 'Unjust', 'Extreme' and 'Unchristian'
The Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law issued a report today analyzing newly released data from the US Census Bureau. The study examines data from the 2008 American Community Survey (ACS).
The Human Rights Campaign expressed profound sadness and anger at the passage of Question 1 in Maine. Question 1 was a referendum vetoing the state’s law recognizing same-sex marriages.
The U.S. Senate passed the conference report for the 2010 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 2647) which included the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act by a vote of 68-29. The bill now goes to the President who has vowed to sign it into law.
