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School district sued after eliminating the student newspaper for publishing LGBTQ+ content
The board president said “the national media does the same crap” in an email just before the newspaper was canceled.
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Children’s museum receives death threats because drag queens were planning to read there
The event was private and after hours but “overwhelming” threats of violence to the museum forced the event to be postponed anyway.
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Judge who refused to let lesbian moms adopt for the silliest reason gets shut down by Supreme Court
The “old-fashioned” judge said that the women can’t adopt because they don’t have husbands, calling same-sex couples adopting “imagination station.”
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Finally: Court strikes down last ban on gay & lesbian foster parents in US
After decades of discrimination, Nebraska is the last state in the nation to end its ban on lesbians and gays who want to adopt children.
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ACLU wants couple barred from Nebraska same-sex marriage lawsuit
The ACLU says Harold B. Wilson and his transgender fiancee Gracy Sedlak have not demonstrated that the seven Nebraska couples already in the suit do not adequately represent the couple’s interests.
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ACLU asks judge to order Nebraska to recognize same-sex marriages
The ACLU is asking a judge to order Nebraska to recognize same-sex marriages while the group’s legal challenge to the state’s gay marriage ban is pending.
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Same-sex couples file suit challenging Nebraska gay marriage ban
LINCOLN, Neb. — Seven same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Monday asking the state of Nebraska to recognize their marriages and challenging the constitutionality of the state’s ban. American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska Executive Director Danielle Conrad said it’s time for the state to extend the freedom to marry to all of its citizens.
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Student allowed to perform previously censored poem on gender stereotypes
LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska state champion speech student will be allowed to perform a poem about gender identity for television after originally being asked not to by a statewide schools organization.
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Same-sex couple’s divorce case could test Nebraska’s gay marriage ban
LINCOLN, Neb. — A lesbian couple who married in Iowa in 2009 is now petitioning the Nebraska Supreme Court to be allowed to divorce in a case that could test the constitutionality of Nebraska’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Gay couples to sue Neb. over law banning gay foster parents
LINCOLN, Neb. — Three same-sex couples plan to sue Nebraska because they say the state won’t allow them to become foster parents.