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  • N.J. judge: Gay conversion therapy group can’t claim homosexuality is a disorder

    A judge in New Jersey has ruled that claims by a gay conversion therapy group that describe homosexuality as a curable mental disorder are fraud.

    • 2014

  • N.J. lawmaker introduces bill to prohibit ‘gay panic’ defense in murder cases

    Assemblyman Tim Eustace says even though it’s unclear if such a defense has ever been used in New Jersey, he wants “to make sure that we’re paying attention to things before they happen.”

  • New Jersey bill would ease transgender birth certificate changes

    Legislation has advanced that would make it easier for people who have changed their sex and names to get new birth certificates in New Jersey.

  • Challenge to N.J. ban on conversion therapy appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

    WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court decision upholding New Jersey’s ban on conversion therapy for LGBT youth has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The anti-gay legal group Liberty Counsel on Wednesday asked the court to review a September ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, …

  • Nearly 4,000 same-sex couples marry in N.J. in first year of marriage equality

    NEWARK, N.J. — Nearly 4,000 marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples in New Jersey since the state Supreme Court cleared the way for gay marriages one year ago. Monmouth County has issued the most same-sex marriage licenses with about 406. That was followed by Essex and Camden counties.

  • Christie says states should decide whether to allow same-sex marriage

    TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie says it shouldn’t be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether states allow same-sex marriage. The Republican governor weighed in Thursday on the court’s decision this week not to hear appeals from a handful of states, paving the way for a significant expansion across the country.

  • Transgender teacher who fought N.J. school boards dies

    LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. — Lily McBeth, the teacher whose battles with school boards in conservative areas of New Jersey made her a reluctant symbol of the transgender rights movement, has died. She was 80. McBeth died Sept. 24 near her home in Little Egg Harbor after a long illness, her daughter Maureen said. “She was very much at peace with her life…

  • Ban on gay youth conversion therapy to be appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

    NEWARK, N.J. — An attorney for people seeking to overturn New Jersey’s ban on so-called gay conversion therapy says he will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. Gov. Chris Christie signed the law last year banning the therapy for patients under 18. The lawsuit, filed by two therapists…

  • Federal appeals court upholds N.J. ban on conversion therapy for LGBT youth

    A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a New Jersey law prohibiting therapists from performing the controversial “gay to straight” conversion therapy on LGBT youth. The lawsuit, filed by two therapists, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and the American Association…

  • Accused killer says murders of four men were ‘vengeance’ against U.S.

    A Seattle man accused in a nationwide murder spree that has claimed four victims, including two gay men in Seattle, has told investigators that he had launched his own “jihad” against Americans as an act of “vengeance” to retaliate for U.S. military action in the Middle East.