Tag: Out Law
Amid wave of pushback, success in South Dakota
Cooler heads prevailed on Tuesday, when South Dakota’s governor vetoed a bill that would have made it the first state in the country to...
LGBT estate planning: Not an option, it’s a must
The financial and legal impact of being married is significant. There are 1,138 identified federal provisions in which marital status is a factor in...
LGBT 2015 year in review
As 2015 draws to a close, let’s review the many ways in which the fight for equality has made historical progress, as well the...
What is in a name?
Generally, a name defines an individual. It is a sense of who you are and how you present yourself in the world. However, when...
Completing the paper trail of marriage equality
Now that the dust of the whirlwind marriage-equality decision has settled, I want to do a check-in before we head into the end of...
A big victory at the EEOC
On July 17, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled in a 3-2 decision that sexual-orientation discrimination is illegal under Title VII of the...
Marriage: life, liberty and the pursuit of equality
The historic June 26 U.S. Supreme Court decision on marriage equality has given the LGBT community and our country a new civil right, placing...
A road less-traveled: father and son to husbands
A couple weeks ago, a story broke that got the heterosexual community in a frenzy — Norman MacArthur and Bill Novak of Bucks County...
LGBT equality? Not so fast
After coming off a couple years of strong LGBT-equality wins, the LGBT community is dazed and confused with loss after loss at the polls...
Playing Whac-A-Mole with LGBT equality
You almost expect states like Indiana, Oklahoma and Alabama to rage against the progress made in the fight for LGBT equality, but California? The...
The next front in the war against marriage equality
And the marriage movement continues! Just this week, a federal court judge ordered Nebraska to lift its ban on same-sex marriage,...
.LGBT: An Internet Gayborhood
Rainbow flags. Gay cruises. Logo. Domain names? The LGBT community has carved out plenty of homes for itself, but it has yet to officially...
Top LGBT moments of 2014
The LGBT communities had a lot to celebrate in 2014, with amazing legislative, judicial and cultural victories. While there are truly countless victories I...
Do hate-crime laws really protect the LGBT community?
We recently saw some of the quickest and most efficient action I’ve seen in a while when Philadelphia’s City Council unanimously voted (17-0) to...
The road to childbirth is paved in good intentions
The conception and birth of a child is an adventure and a miracle for heterosexual and same-sex parents alike. However, the “adventure” to parenthood...
State of hate-crimes laws in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is still reeling from the Sept. 11 gay bashing in which two gay men were brutally beaten by a group of young people....
Marriage equality is spreading like wildfire
Proponents of marriage equality have been kicking butt and taking names over the last year-and-a-half! These victories leave us with 19 states plus Washington,...
Transitioning the gay-rights movement
We just marked the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which sparked the modern gay-rights movement, with Pride events in New York City and San...
The great diaper debate
Diaper-changing tables are currently not required by state or federal law in any restroom. But many family-friendly businesses provide them as a courtesy and...
The great diaper debate
Here’s a question most of us haven’t pondered before: What’s a dad to do if he’s out and about with his baby who needs...
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