Category: Around the Nation

Ellen, website present lesbian teen with scholarship following prom flap (Video)

Ellen DeGeneres presented a $30,000 scholarship on behalf of Tonic.com Friday to a teenage lesbian whose high school prom was canceled when she asked to attend with a girl. Constance McMillen, 18, appeared on The [...]

Lambda Legal, NJ gay couples back in court over right to marry

Gay couples who sued New Jersey in 2002 for the right to marry are taking their case back to the State Supreme Court. Lambda Legal filed a motion Thursday on behalf of six couples and [...]

Internet gay bashing not protected by free speech, court rules

Students at a private school in Los Angeles who posted internet death threats and anti-gay messages on a classmate's webpage, can't claim the constitutional protection of free speech, a California appeals court has ruled. The [...]

Pennsylvania lawmakers strike down latest attempt to ban gay marriage

For the third time in four years, Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday defeated an attempt to advance legislation to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Reports Philly.com: The Republican-majority Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-6 [...]

Catholic school denies children’s enrollment due to gay parents

A lesbian couple is speaking out after a Catholic school in Colorado banned their two children from re-enrolling because they are gay parents. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput said the decision by the Sacred Heart of [...]

Gay marriage foes target GOP Senate hopeful

[caption id="attachment_6990" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Campbell"][/caption] A group that promotes traditional marriage is funding a new statewide ad campaign in California against U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell -- a Republican who supports gay marriage. The Washington, [...]

Washington Post defends front-page photo of two men kissing

Gay marriage came to the nation's capital this week, and the Washington Post has been fending off reader complaints for marking the occasion with a front page picture of two men kissing. [caption id="attachment_6941" align="aligncenter" [...]

ACLU backs lesbian student, sues Mississippi school over canceled prom

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Thursday against Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Miss., after the school district decided to cancel this year’s prom rather than let a lesbian student attend the dance [...]

Eric Massa rebuffs the gay question; calls ‘groping’ male staffers a ‘tickle fight’

Former U.S. congressman, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) Tuesday night refused to answer a blunt question by CNN's Larry King: "are you gay?" Massa is accused of groping male staffers and the House ethics committee is [...]

Virginia students mobilize against AG’s call to dismiss gay protections; Assembly effort fails

[caption id="attachment_6881" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Cuccinelli"][/caption] Students across Virginia put spring break on hold this week to mobilize against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who has riled student groups with a letter advising public universities to retreat [...]