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News (USA)
Wyoming same-sex marriages to begin on Tuesday
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Same-sex couples will have to wait until Tuesday before they can get married in Wyoming. Wyoming Attorney General Peter Michael says the state will notify a federal court at 10 .m. Tuesday that it won’t appeal last Friday’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban on gay marriage.
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News (USA)
Alaska resumes issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Same-sex couples can start getting married in Alaska on Monday. Phillip Mitchell, with the state Department of Vital Statistics, said couples who completed applications last week before the courts issued a stay can start picking up their licenses Monday morning.
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Life
Obama: ‘Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage’
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court’s recent gay marriage orders may have the biggest impact of any ruling of his presidency. Obama told The New Yorker that the court’s Oct. 6 rejection of appeals from states seeking to preserve gay marriage bans is the best of his tenure.
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News (USA)
Wedding chapel files lawsuit claiming non-discrimination ordinance is unconstitutional
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — An Idaho wedding chapel has filed a lawsuit against the City of Coeur d’Alene, claiming the city’s LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance is forcing them to violate their religious beliefs by performing same-sex marriages.
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Life
Ginsburg: ‘No crying need’ for the Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday said there was “no need” for the high court to intervene on the issue of same-sex marriage. In an interview with NPR’s Nina Totenburg at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City, Ginsburg said the court declined to hear seven appeals challenging the marriage bans …
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News (USA)
Poll: Most Americans support Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage
Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support the recent U.S. Supreme Court action allowing gay marriages to go forward in several states – including a bare majority in the 11 states in which such marriages have begun in the past week and a half. Overall, 56 percent of Americans support the court’s action, while 38 percent…
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Commentary
Path to financial stability, long-term care for aging LGBT individuals starts now
The lack of clarity on what the future may hold is compounded by the fact that unlike their heterosexual peers, LGBT seniors often lack traditional family support systems, which heightens their need to create long-term plans for their future… Most of these individuals will derive no benefit from the new marriage equality rules, as many do not have a legal spouse present to execute their end-of-life plans….
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Life
In this family of Seahawks fanatics, coming out must wait for the commercial
“My mom’s in her uniform — her jersey, her Seahawks jersey — screaming at the TV, ‘Go, Hawks! No! No!’ Just screaming. And I walk in just crying, and she just stops everything, literally goes into mama-bear mode and is like, ‘What happened? Oh, my gosh! What’s going on? Are you OK? Oh, my God!’ Hugs me, hugs me, hugs me. And I’m like, ‘Mom, I’m gay!’ …
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News (World)
Marine accused in murder of transgender Filipino tests U.S.-Philippine ties
OLONGAPO, Philippines — Inside a funeral parlor, a Filipino mother sits and weeps next to a coffin containing the body of her daughter and demands answers. On a hulking American assault ship moored at a nearby port sits a man who might have them – a U.S. Marine authorities suspect in the brutal slaying at a cheap hotel more than a week ago.
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News (USA)
Teen who set agender victim on fire will serve 7 years under plea agreement
OAKLAND, Calif. — A California teen accused of setting fire last year to an agender individual who was sleeping on an Oakland city bus, has entered a plea of no contest to felony charges. Richard Thomas, 17, faces a sentence of up to seven years in prison after a plea agreement was reached Thursday in which he admitted to a charge of …