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Category: From the Closet to the Courtroom
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By Carlos A. Ball Grimm’s lawsuit, and other cases like it such as the challenge to North Carolina’s so-called transgender bathroom law (also known as House Bill 2), is of great importance, because it addresses the question of whether transgender individuals are legally entitled to do something that everyone else is permitted to do, namely…
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By Michael Bronski Image from Flickr user Laverrue As we move into LGBTQ Pride month we are being met with a deluge of public discussions, events, breaking news stories, and potentially groundbreaking legal decisions that impact not only the queer community but American social and political life. The Supreme Court is poised, by the end…
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National Coming Out Day reading recommendations from Beacon Press.
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The Supreme Court’s opinion in the DOMA case illustrates how it is the marriage equality side that truly has had the best interests of children at heart all along.
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Opponents of marriage equality find themselves arguing both that the marriage debate is about children and that marriage doesn’t matter to kids of LGBT parents.
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Two cases being argued before the Supreme Court this week have the potential to tip the judicial scales in favor of greater legal equality for LGBT families.
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It’s time for the Supreme Court to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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A selection of excerpts from new and backlist Beacon LGBT titles.
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The author of From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation discusses the Prop 8 ruling.
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Links to analysis and a roundup of Beacon titles on LGBT rights.
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