Category Archives: Civil Rights
Maine Senate Backs Same-Sex Marriage – NYTimes.com
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 [...]
N.H. Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill
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 [...]
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Same-Sex Ruling Belies the Staid Image of Iowa
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 [...]
Amazon Rights Error After Tweet-Rage on Twitter
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 [...]
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Iowa’s Family Values
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 [...]
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Diplomats’ Same-Sex Partners to Get Benefits