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Michigan GOP seeks to rescind domestic partner benefits of state employees
Republicans in the Michigan Legislature this week approved a resolution that seeks to overturn a decision to extend state-paid health insurance coverage to same-sex partners of state employees.
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Federal judge rules against ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ over health care benefits
More and more challenges to the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) have been hitting the courts and getting shafted by federal judges: U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland ruled Wednesday that state employees can sue the federal government over their same-sex partners’ exclusion from long-term health care benefits.
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NC state rep: Stop funding HIV treatment for people who live ‘perverted lifestyles’
A North Carolina state representative has said that HIV treatment should not be funded by the taxpayer for people who live “perverted lifestyles.”
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Anti-gay measure backfires on El Paso city workers, retirees
EL PASO, Texas — An effort to block same-sex partners of city employees from obtaining health care benefits has back fired, and may strip benefits from thousands of others, including elected officials and partners of retired policemen and firefighters.
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Allentown may soon offer medical benefits to partners of gay employees
Allentown may soon become the first municipality in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley to offer medical benefits to partners of gay employees.
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Pet insurance available to federal employees, but still no coverage for same-sex partners
Federal employees insured through the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program received an email on Thursday from Aetna promoting their new pet insurance plans, but DOMA still prohibits LGBT workers from covering their same-sex partners.
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CA county settles suit with gay man separated from dying partner
California’s Sonoma County has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by an elderly gay man who claimed he was separated from his dying partner, accused of abuse, and left penniless when county officials auctioned the contents of their home.
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Judge: AZ can’t end domestic partner benefits for state employees
A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction preventing the State of Arizona from enforcing a law that would have prevented lesbian and gay state employees and their domestic partners from receiving health benefits, referring to it as illegal discrimination.
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Google to compensate gay and lesbian employees for unequal tax treatment
Google announced on Thursday that it will begin compensating gay and lesbian employees for an extra tax they must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits — a tax that married straight couples are not required to pay.
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Obama administration to expand family, medical leave benefits to same-sex parents
President Obama is taking another step to expand the rights of gay workers by allowing them to take family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of same-sex partners, administration officials annoiunced Monday. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is scheduled to make the announcement on Wednesday that will require employers to allow gay […]