fighting homophobia
Is NY Equal Marriage Bill a Sign that the GOP Aims to Leverage Gay Support in 2012?
June 27, 2011 - 12:47pm
DemocracyNow.org - Late at night on June 24, New York became the sixth and largest state to approve same-sex marriage. After complicated behind-the-scenes negotiations, four Republican senators joined all but one Democrat to pass the bill in a close vote in the state Senate. The state Assembly, with a Democratic majority, had approved it earlier in the month. Two days after the passage of the measure, tens of thousands of people took to the streets for New York City's annual gay pride parade.
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Queer-Baiting: A Homophobic Strategy Whose Day Never Came
by Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
May 12, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
In the intervening almost 20 years since David Souter was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Bush the First, much has changed. Let's hope that the issue of the nominee's personal life is one of them.
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