Infographic: Marriage Equality Is A Mainstream Value. LPAC, Lesbian Super PAC, Launches With Backing Of Billie Jean King And Jane Lynch. Today. First Lesbian Super PAC Launches. LPAC, a new super PAC created by influential lesbians, plans to raise at least $1 million this cycle to help elect pro-equality candidates and amplify women’s voices in the political conversation.
Last fall, a group of high-powered women, some of whom had never met, gathered in New York City to discuss a question that has long bedeviled regulars on the fund-raising circuit: How can lesbians participate in the political process more meaningfully and be more present and visible? “Personally, as a woman who has been engaged as a donor, I’m often in the minority when I’m in the room,” said Sarah Schmidt, a Chicago-based consultant and philanthropist. “And that gets old. I think, ‘Are my interests really being represented here?’” Following the initial meeting, attendees reached out to their networks and received an enthusiastic response. LPAC, believed to be the first PAC focused directly on issues that affect lesbians and their families, was born. New York Court Throws Out Challenge to Marriage Equality Law. A New York state appeals court upheld the marriage equality law against a challenge brought by a conservative religious group.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo The process leading to the passage of the marriage equality law in New York last year did not break procedural rules pertaining to the legislature, as claimed in a challenge brought by a conservative religious group, a state appeals court ruled Friday. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester said in a 5-0 decision that closed-door negotiations between Republican senators and campaigners for the bill, including Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, did not violate the state’s Open Meetings Law.
New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a group representing evangelical Protestants that lobbied against the measure’s passage in Albany, filed the suit last year on July 25, one day after the new law took effect. Anderson Cooper The Fact Is Im Gay. Anderson Cooper "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," Anderson Cooper writes in an email that he agreed to have published on The Daily Beast.
Cooper's acknowledgment comes in response to a conversation with his longtime friend blogger-commentator Andrew Sullivan about Entertainment Weekly's recent cover story about the matter-of-fact way people in the public eye reveal their homosexuality these days. Cooper writes that despite being a public figure he's tried to maintain a level of privacy for professional reasons. A journalist shouldn't be the story, he's long said.
"Recently, however, I’ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle," he tells Sullivan. Although he has long dodged questions about his orientation, Cooper was featured on the cover of Out magazine in 2007 behind the headline "The Glass Closet. " The Giggles. IN OBAMA WE TRUST. Never has the substantial progress in equal rights and treatment of LGBT people been more at risk than in this presidential contest.
This election presents a choice between starkly opposing futures. Barack Obama is a leader of undeniable accomplishment, vision, and integrity on LGBT rights. His opponent Mitt Romney betrays equality on numerous issues and aligns himself with a faction of the Republican Party that does not include equality among its declared ideals. The Advocate’s last endorsement was decades ago, but the president’s statement of May 9, unequivocally in favor of marriage equality, along with his record on LGBT rights, has distinguished him for the ages and has made it clear that he is a transformational leader and our best choice for president.
By saying aloud, “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” in a televised interview on ABC, he has sparked conversation domestically and internationally. Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.