Category Archives: Civil Rights

Diplomats’ Same-Sex Partners to Get Benefits

By PFLAG Boulder County | May 23, 2009

From the New York Times: 
WASHINGTON — The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers.
Mrs. Clinton said the policy change addressed an inequity in the treatment of domestic [...]

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Maine Senate Backs Same-Sex Marriage – NYTimes.com

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 30, 2009

From the New York Times: 
BOSTON — Maine could be the next New England state to embrace same-sex marriage after the State Senate voted Thursday to legalize the practice.
The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 21 to 14 for a bill that would allow gay couples to marry starting later this year. The measure appears to have even broader support in [...]

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N.H. Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 29, 2009

From the New York Times:
CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Senate voted narrowly on Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage, paving the way for the state to potentiallybecome the fifth in the nation — and the third this month — to allow gay couples to wed.
The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 13 to 11 in favor of the bill, [...]

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Same-Sex Ruling Belies the Staid Image of Iowa

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 25, 2009

From the New York Times: 
ELDON, Iowa — As of Monday, gay couples will be allowed to marry in places like this small town that once served as the background for Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” the painter’s famous depiction of stern, traditional Midwesterners.
Many people, even some who live here, cannot mesh their plain-Jane image of Iowa, [...]

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Amazon Rights Error After Tweet-Rage on Twitter

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 15, 2009

From the New York Times: 
In response to nearly two days of angry online commentary, particularly onTwitter, Amazon.com said on Monday that “an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error” had caused thousands of books on its site to lose their sales rankings and become harder to find in searches.
Most of the company’s online critics complained that the problem appeared [...]

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Iowa’s Family Values

By PFLAG Boulder County | April 9, 2009

From the New York Times:
IF it weren’t for Iowa, my family may never have existed, and this gay, biracial New Yorker might never have been born.
In 1958, when my mother, who was white, and father, who was black, wanted to get married in Nebraska, it was illegal for them to wed. So they decided to [...]

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