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Transgender Issues Put Women’s Colleges to the Test

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 10th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

With transgender issues and rights receiving more and more public attention, some women’s colleges are facing them while others avoid the challenge of reconsidering admission policies and student parameters.

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Gay Rights Groups Find Unlikely Ally in Georgia Fight

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 March 4th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

ATLANTA — Former Attorney General Michael J. Bowers of Georgia has already earned an enduring — his critics would say notorious — place in gay rights history.

As the state’s chief lawyer in the 1980s, he vigorously defended its anti-sodomy law. It is his name that graces Bowers v. Hardwick, the

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Alabama Court Orders a Halt to Same-Sex Marriage Licenses

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 March 4th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday night ordered probate judges around the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, ruling in direct opposition to a federal judge that the state’s ban on same sex marriage did not violate the United States Constitution.

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S.F. archbishop’s imposition of morality clause at schools outrages many

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 12th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone sparked a protest last summer when he ignored pleas from public officials to cancel his plans to march in Washington, D.C., against same-sex marriage.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Alabama same-sex marriage resistance, federal law to collide in court

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 12th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

Alabama resistance and federal law will collide Thursday in Mobile, when U.S. District Judge Callie Granade holds a hearing on whether to force state probate judges to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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In Defiance on Gay Marriage, Alabama Sets Itself Far Apart

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 11th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On Sunday night, Blake Guinn, a 21-year-old city councilman in a deeply conservative suburb here, looked on Facebook and learned that, once again, Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the State Supreme Court had defied a federal court in the name of state sovereignty. Somehow, it did not seem entirely unexpected.

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Supreme Court, in Alabama case, may have shown its hand on gay marriage

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Supreme Court, in Alabama case, may have shown its hand on gay marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 10th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

The Supreme Court on Monday gave its strongest signal yet that the legal fight for nationwide gay marriage has been won even before the issue is argued in April.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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In Alabama, a patchwork of reactions over same-sex marriage

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In Alabama, a patchwork of reactions over same-sex marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 10th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

Like lightning striking a Southern oak, the conflict over gay marriage split the judges of this state Monday.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Same-Sex Marriages Proceed in Alabama as State Judge’s Order Is Defied

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Same-Sex Marriages Proceed in Alabama as State Judge’s Order Is Defied

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 9th, 2015|LGBTQ+|

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama became on Monday the latest state to allow same-sex marriage, as many probate judges defied an order by the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and began issuing licenses and performing weddings.

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The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

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The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 January 30th, 2015|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+|

It was close to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of Nov. 4, 2013, and Sasha Fleischman was riding the 57 bus home from school. An 18-year-old senior at a small private high school, Sasha wore a T-shirt, a black fleece jacket, a gray newsboy cap and a gauzy white skirt. For much of the long

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