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TERFs are spreading anti-trans messages in Madison. This woman is stopping them.
Neo-Nazi and TERF messages are being put up while progressive messages are being vandalized.
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Berserk man attacks strangers outside a gay bar until police haul him away still screaming slurs
He was yelling anti-gay insults and was escorted away. When he returned, police say, he was looking for a fight.
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The Catholic Church may deny LGBTQ people funerals to avoid ‘scandal & confusion’
If it does deem a queer person worthy of a funeral, their partner should not be listed “either by name or by other reference (nor reference to the unnatural union).”
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Court: Judge properly tossed gay couple’s parental request
A judge properly dismissed a same-sex couple’s request for a declaration that one of them is the legal parent of the other’s child, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Appeals court joins, fast tracks Indiana, Wisconsin same-sex marriage cases
CHICAGO — A federal appeals court has combined Indiana and Wisconsin’s gay marriage cases and put them on the fast track. The move Friday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago comes a day after Wisconsin’s attorney general filed a notice of appeal of a federal judge’s ruling last month striking down that state’s ban on same-sex marriages.
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Wisconsin AG files appeal in same-sex marriage ruling
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin has appealed a federal judge’s ruling from last month striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages as unconstitutional. Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed the appeal on Thursday as he indicated at the time of the original ruling he would. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled on June 6 that the ban…
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Judge won’t speed up decision in request to lift same-sex marriage stay
MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge will not speed up the briefing schedule in the American Civil Liberties Union request that she lift a stay on gay marriages in Wisconsin. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on Wednesday said she would stick to the current schedule, which gives Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen until Thursday to file an appeal to the request…
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ACLU asks federal judge to lift stay in Wisconsin same-sex marriage ruling
MADISON, Wis. — The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal judge to lift a stay on same-sex marriages in Wisconsin. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb found the state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional in an ACLU lawsuit June 6, sending same-sex couples rushing to courthouses to marry.
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Lawsuit alleging civil rights were violated when gay couples married is dismissed
MILWAUKEE — A lawsuit filed by a Wisconsin man who claimed that his civil rights were being violated because same-sex couples were marrying has been dismissed. Bob Braun of West Allis, Wis., filed a small-claims suit against Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples earlier…
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Republican senator: Time for the GOP to quit fighting same-sex marriage
A Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin said Monday it was time for the GOP to beyond social issues such as same-sex marriage and focus on economic policy ahead of the 2014 and 2016 elections, arguing that the party should allow voters and states to enact marriage equality. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an appearance on…