Video of a historic bench trial that led to the overturning of California’s ban on same-sex marriage must be unsealed next month, a federal judge ruled Thursday, after finding no good reasons support keeping them hidden from public view.
Read moreCosta Rica legalized same-sex marriage on Tuesday, becoming the first Central American country to do so and sparking an emotional response from rights campaigners as the first weddings were held overnight.
Read moreA Texas state judge claimed Wednesday judges’ civil rights are violated by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct when they are disciplined for expressing views against same-sex marriage or homosexual conduct.
Read moreThe Department of Justice expressed support for a Kentucky photographer who claims that Louisville’s anti-discrimination law forces her to shoot same-sex weddings.
Read moreState officials in Indiana must list both same-sex parents on their child’s birth certificate, the Seventh Circuit ruled Friday.
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The Hallmark Channel, reversing what it called a “wrong decision,” said Sunday it will reinstate commercials featuring same-sex couples that it had pulled after a complaint from a conservative group.
Read moreA federal class action claims Alaska and its Gov. Mike Dunleavy unconstitutionally deny payments from the Permanent Fund Dividend to spouses of military members in same-sex marriages.
Read moreA group of Northern Irish lawmakers on Monday failed in a last-minute bid to thwart the liberalisation of abortion laws, set to come into force after being decided by London during the suspension of the Belfast executive.
Read moreA gay married couple filed a federal lawsuit Thursday over the State Department’s refusal to recognize the citizenship of their daughter, claiming the government unfairly treats the children of same-sex couples as if they were born out of wedlock.
Read moreKim Davis, the former county clerk briefly jailed over her refusal to recognize gay marriage in Kentucky, is not immune from civil claims by two of the couples she denied a license to wed, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
Read moreThe San Antonio City Council’s vote to exclude fast-food chain Chick-fil-A from its airport sparked a lawsuit Monday from Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who seeks to force the release of documents that he says would shed light “on the religious bigotry that animated its decision.”
Read moreTaiwan’s legislature voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, a first in Asia and a boost for LGBT rights activists who had championed the cause for two decades.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a case Wednesday involving whether a child born to a mixed-nationality lesbian couple should be granted U.S. citizenship.
Read moreTexas state Rep. Celia Israel has introduced a bill to ban homosexual “conversion therapy” again and again in the Legislature, knowing it will be killed by a Republican majority. Though it died again this session, it was finally heard by a committee, a sign of growing clout of the new LGBTQ caucus.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit dismissed without prejudice, for lack of jurisdiction, an appeal from news agencies seeking to compel the unsealing of videotaped recordings of a trial on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8.
Read morePhiladelphia officials can choose not to contract with a Catholic foster care agency that refuses to place children with same-sex couples, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreState legalization of same-sex marriage has significantly reduced homophobia across the United States, though federal action may have led to national polarization on attitudes toward lesbian and gay people, according to a new study released Monday.
Read moreThree attorneys claim in a federal lawsuit that the State Bar of Texas is using members’ mandatory dues to help undocumented immigrants seeking asylum, coercing lawyers to support its political agenda in violation of their free-speech rights.
Read moreThe United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference voted Tuesday to strengthen the faith’s divisive bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.
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