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Outing a GOP governor costs lesbian former politician her new job
Patricia Todd was set to be the executive director of an LGBTQ organization. Now they’ve rescinded the offer days before she was supposed to start.
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Did a lesbian former legislator just out Alabama Governor Kay Ivey?
The governor’s campaign called the rumor that she’s gay a “disgusting lie being pushed by a paid liberal political hack.”
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Alabama House passes anti-gay adoption bill despite protest by lesbian lawmaker
Lesbian Rep. Patricia Todd said she’s tired of dealing with institutions that know nothing about her “but make a judgment that I’m a bad person because I am gay.”
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Anti-gay baby meet bathwater: Alabama wants to abolish marriage licenses
The Alabama Senate voted to do away with state-issued marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.
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Alabama’s only openly gay lawmaker named director of local HRC chapter
Democratic state Rep. Patricia Todd of Birmingham was introduced Friday as the new state director of the Human Rights Campaign in Alabama.
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Ala. House approves bill allowing judges, ministers to refuse to marry gay couples
The bill does not mention same-sex marriage, but says judges, ministers and others don’t have to conduct weddings contrary to their religious beliefs.
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Ala. lawmaker threatens to out immoral ‘hypocrites’ over same-sex marriage
Alabama’s only openly gay lawmaker is threatening to expose state politicians who have extramarital affairs, but claim that same-sex marriage is immoral or bad for children.
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Alabama lawmaker to name workplace discrimination bill after Apple CEO
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama’s only openly gay lawmaker plans to name her bill to prohibit anti-LGBT workplace discrimination after Apple CEO Tim Cook. Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) said she will introduce “The Tim Cook Economic Development Act” when the legislative session gets underway in March 2015, in the hope that Alabama …
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Gay Ala. lawmaker angry over passage of anti-gay marriage resolution
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama lawmaker has accused her colleagues of using deception to pass a resolution urging an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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Freedom to Marry launches $1 million marriage equality campaign in U.S. South
NEW YORK – Freedom to Marry, the advocacy campaign to win marriage equality nationwide, on Monday launched a $1 million multi-state campaign to build majority support for marriage in the South.