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Indiana Moving Backwards?
While much of the country seemed to be rapidly advancing towards equal marriage rights in 2013, Indiana seemed to be moving backwards, with the threat of an anti-gay constitutional amendment seeming to march towards inevitable passage amidst an orgy of hate. But then a remarkable thing happened: pro-equality Hoosiers came out of the woodwork and…
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Cardinal George: No Honor in Anti-Gay Bigotry
Whether it was equal employment rights, equal access to housing and public accommodations, let alone equal marriage rights, the Catholic leadership could always be counted on to oppose equal rights for LGBT people behind the scenes, if not openly. On the eve of Cardinal George’s lavish retirement dinner at the sumptuous Drake Hotel, Joe Murray…
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Marching on Springfield for Marriage Equality
Kim Hunt of Affinity Community Services joins Brent Holman-Gomez of the Gay Liberation Network to discuss the forthcoming October 22nd March on Springfield for Marriage Equality. Ms. Hunt explains the disappointment many felt over the failure to pass marriage equality in Illinois in the legislative session ending May 31st, and the determination to get it…
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The Supreme Court & Marriage Rights
LGBT activist Andrea Crain and GLN’s Andy Thayer explore what the recent Supreme Court rulings on marriage rights for same-sex couples mean for the future of LGBT rights both in Illinois and nationally. Examined are the pitfalls of the Court’s rulings and why we can’t be complacent about actually achieving the legal equality that seems…
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Marriage Equality in Illinois Finally?
On the night that Illinois’s equal marriage rights bill went down to ignominious defeat, the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz interviews GLN co-founder Andy Thayer, who came direct from the statehouse to the CAN TV studio. They discuss the bill just an hour before its epic fail. Examined in particular are House Speaker Mike Madigan’s…
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Gay Marriage: More Broken Promises, More Money For the Democrats
Openly bigoted Republicans have frequently used anti-gay hate as a “wedge issue” in election after election. Now the Democrats are using LGBT equal rights as a political football – cynically promising things to their LGBT core voters while doing nothing in practice to advance our rights. Watch as the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz and…
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Analyzing the Defeat in Maine
Maine was the latest in dozens of referendum defeats for the LGBT community. But it was eminently winnable. Unlike in many other campaigns, our side had a decisive 2-1 fundraising advantage. The examples of marriage equality not leading to the sky falling in could be seen in next door Canada and nearby Massachusetts. Yet we…
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Prop 8 & the Upcoming California Supreme Court Decision
Camilla Taylor, senior staff attorney for the Midwest Office of Lambda Legal, is our guest as she discusses the anti-equal marriage rights “Proposition 8” ballot proposition in California, shortly after the oral arguments before that state’s Supreme Court aimed at striking down the discriminatory measure. Danielle Karczewski of the Gay Liberation Network hosts the show…
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Equal Marriage Rights in Illinois
State Representative Greg Harris joins the Gay Liberation Network’s Andy Thayer to discuss the prospects for winning the equal rights for same-sex couples in Illinois. Harris is the lead sponsor of a bill for civil unions, a lesser form of legal protections, and another bill for full equal marriage rights in the Illinois’s General Assembly.…
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REPEAL the “Defense of Marriage Act”
Missy Lorenzen of Join the Impact-Chicago and Andy Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network discuss the anti-gay federal “Defense of Marriage Act,” also known as DOMA. DOMA was signed into law by President Clinton in 1996 and forbade any federal recognition of same-sex marriages even in states that voted to recognize them, and directly contradicted…