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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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Friday, 03 September 2010 00:00 |
13,500
Discharges under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” through 2009.
58
Arabic language specialists discharged from the U.S. military under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” through 2003.
66,000
Additional gay Americans who it is estimated would join the U.S. military if DADT is repealed.
$555 million
Estimated costs to the military of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” through 2010, including recruiting and training replacements for discharged gay service members.
Source: Studies released in last month by the Palm Center, a think tank on LGBT issues and the military.
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by Chris Johnson
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Friday, 03 September 2010 00:00 |
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The coming out of former Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman — who led the GOP at a time when the party was backing the Federal Marriage Amendment and marriage amendments in states throughout the country — is inspiring mixed reactions among LGBT advocates as some criticize him for his past actions and others welcome his new public support.
Mehlman’s announcement about his sexual orientation officially became public in an interview published Aug. 25 by the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder. According to the article, Mehlman told family and associates he’s gay and came to this conclusion fairly recently.
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by Staff
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Friday, 20 August 2010 00:00 |
2,000,000
Size of the “army” Brian Brown, National Organization for Marriage executive director, claims his group is building to defend marriage from gay couples.
750,000
The number Brown claims his army is “already at.”
35
Size of the crowd, including NOM employees and media outlets, that attended the group’s Atlanta rally on Aug. 7. Close to 300 LGBT rights supporters turned out for a mostly silent counter-protest.
34
Size of the crowd that attended NOM’s rally in Orlando on Aug. 8; some 134 turned out to counter-protest.
Source:GA Voice, Box Turtle Bulletin
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by Lisa Keen
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Friday, 20 August 2010 00:00 |
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In an historic, potent, and eloquent decision, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Aug. 4 that California’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage violates the federal constitution’s guarantees to equal protection and due process of law.
But a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 16 that gay marriages cannot resume in California until after the court hears an appeal from the groups who fought to uphold Proposition 8. The appeals court scheduled an expedited hearing on the appeal for the week of Dec. 6, and ordered the sides to address the issue of who has standing to appeal the ballot measure that barred gay couples from marrying in California.
While the delay dashed hopes that same-sex couples would resume marrying in California as early as this month, Walker’s opinion still represents the first major victory for legal challenges against state bans on same-sex marriage in any federal court.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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Monday, 16 August 2010 18:37 |
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A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that gay marriages cannot resume in California until after the court hears an appeal from the groups who fought to uphold Proposition 8.
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