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Kentucky Equality Federation Compares Interracial Marriage Ban to Gay Marriage fight.

Dec 5th, 2011 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

Kentucky Equality Federation today made a comparison most gay rights organizations avoid. The fact the gay community is now fighting the same fight that Interracial couples and the entire Black community once faced – discrimination.



LGBTIQ Enrorsements Unimportant to the Beshear-Abramson Campaign.

Oct 24th, 2011 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

Perhaps the vote of the LGBTIQ community is unimportant to Governor Beshear, or perhaps he needs the votes in Republican strongholds like Northern, Southern, and extreme Western Kentucky even though the bulk of the Commonwealth’s population resides in the Central Kentucky.



Nation’s largest equality group begins closing

Oct 15th, 2011 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, National News

Equality California the nations largest equality organization is beginning to close. “Right now a lot of nonprofits are having problems,” Equality California said in a statement.



Dolly Parton apologies to lesbian couple over controversial Dollywood T-shirt incident

Aug 4th, 2011 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Lead Story, National News

A pioneer and the Queen of County Music, Dolly Parton apologized to a lesbian couple asked to leave her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood. Wearing a T-shirt “marriage is so gay,” is controversial and contradictory to public service announcements by Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, Miley Cyrus, Wanda Sykes, and other celebrities asking people to refrain from saying “that’s so gay,” “queer,” and other offensive language to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgende​r community. The theme for the public service announcements are intended to get people to “think before they speak.”



Prop. 8 supporters argue that U.S. appeals court exceeded jurisdiction

Sep 18th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, National News

If last month’s ruling overturning Proposition 8 survives, same-sex marriage should be available only to the two homosexual couples who challenged the ballot measure and should remain barred for the rest of the state’s gay and lesbian population, sponsors of the measure told a federal appeals court.



New Jersey Gay Marriage Supreme Court Case; Democrats and Republicans Blamed

Aug 17th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National News

Seven months after the New Jersey Senate failed to pass a gay marriage law, and nearly a month after the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to hear a gay case, speculation runs rampant through the state and the nation. Senator Lesniak (D) blamed his own party as being without a moral compass. Others blamed the Governor, the first Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years.



Genetic Engineering; A Cure for Homosexuality? Would anyone want it? Share your thoughts!

Aug 15th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National News

A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation while others are calling it outright genetic engineering.



Mexico Supreme Court to rule on gay adoption; the court upheld gay marriage

Aug 10th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: International News, Kentucky Guardian News

Felipe Calderon, president of the United Mexican States and his opposition to legalize gay marriage and calling it “unconstitutional” was overruled on Thursday, August 5, 2010 when Mexico’s Supreme Court sanctioned the landmark law. On Monday it will review the gay adoption clause. Washington, D.C. legalized gay marriage earlier this year after a District Superior Court rejected a citizens anti-gay marriage referendum.



Kentucky Senate President Williams: Republican victories in two Kentucky congressional races

Aug 8th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

WFPL News reports that Kentucky Senate President David Williams was busy during the weekend, making speeches and taking about Republicans taking additional seats in the Kentucky Senate. No pro-LGBTI legislation has made it through the Republican controlled Senate.



Federal Judge sides with the California Supreme Court; Prop 8 is unconstitutional

Aug 4th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story, National News

A federal judge declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional Wednesday, saying that no legitimate state interest justified treating gay and lesbian couples differently from others and that “moral disapproval” was not enough to save the voter-passed Proposition 8. The California Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that gays and lesbians were entitled to marry under the state Constitution in a historic ruling in May 2008. Voters passed Proposition 8 six months later, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.



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