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 …
Indiana Moving Backwards? Read more »
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 …
Cardinal George: No Honor in Anti-Gay Bigotry Read more »
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Marriage Equality in Illinois Finally? Read more »
In March 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two anti-gay measures, California’s Proposition 8 and the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,” which was signed by President Clinton in 1996. Both measures ultimately make same-sex couples second class citizens …
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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 …
Gay Marriage: More Broken Promises, More Money For the Democrats Read more »
With the recent victories for equal marriage rights in California and Washington state, full marriage rights for same-sex couples is finally on the legislative agenda in Springfield. But standing in the way is Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, who can be …
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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 …
Analyzing the Defeat in Maine Read more »
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 …
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