Wisconsin

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has struck down Wisconsin's ban on hormone treatments for transgender prisoners. [ Read more → ]

We did it! New York Marriages can start in less than a month. That success gives us new leverage in the 44 states that have yet to enact marriage equality. We also won victories this week in Wisconsin and Maryland... [ Read more → ]

A judge in Wisconsin on Monday ruled that domestic partnerships are not substantially similar to marriages, and that such partnerships do not violate the state’s 2006 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

An openly gay Wisconsin state lawmaker has confirmed he is "seriously considering" a run for the U.S. House of Representatives if Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) vacates her seat in a bid for the U.S. Senate. [ Read more → ]

It's almost all bad news this week, with an anti-gay measure gaining ground in Minnesota, slow progress in New York, a resignation in North Carolina, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker staking out a position against LGBT hospital visitation. [ Read more → ]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has asked a judge to allow his state to stop defending a new domestic partner registry that grants gay couples hospital visitation and other rights, because he said it violates the state constitution. [ Read more → ]

A Wisconsin judge on Monday sentenced a 71-year-old former bus driver to seven years in prison on charges of sexually assaulting boys, telling him, "I think you were born gayer than a sweet-smelling jock strap.” [ Read more → ]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 7-0 Wednesday to uphold the state’s constitutional ban on same sex marriage and civil unions, saying the 2006 constitutional amendment was properly put to voters in a statewide referendum. [ Read more → ]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on the state's ban on gay marriage -- the lawsuit claims the vote in question violated the constitution because it asked two questions within the same vote. [ Read more → ]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's domestic partner registry. The court offered no explanation in an order issued Tuesday. The law took effect in August, allowing gay couples to register with counties so they could get about 40 of the 150... [ Read more → ]

The domestic partnership benefits of hundreds of Wisconsin gay couples could be overturned in what's becoming a growing legal battle. Currently, gay couples in Wisconsin can register for domestic partnerships rights, enacted through legislation that took effect August 3. Since then, about 1,000 couples have... [ Read more → ]

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Friday that he refuses to defend a new law that grants gay and lesbian couples spousal benefits such as hospital visitation, claiming lawmakers went against voters' decision not to extend such privileges. Van Hollen believes the state's new... [ Read more → ]

More than 440 same sex couple applied for Wisconsin's domestic partnership registry in its first week. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health Services cautions the numbers are incomplete because only 58 out of 72 counties responded to the department's request for numbers. Dane County... [ Read more → ]

Gay couples trickled into county clerk's offices in Wisconsin on Monday for their first chance to sign up for the state's new domestic partnership registry. [ Read more → ]