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...hours at a time. "The psychological pressure was overwhelming," he told TIME. "This was by far the worst treatment from the police that I have ever received." He has been arrested four times since starting Gayrussia.ru in 2005. Still, Alexeyev says he will not stop until gay and lesbian couples have the same rights as all other Russians. "We want the right to adopt children and the right to get married." His work has come at a price. When he came out at 22, he was in the middle of pursuing a master's degree in law. But when...
...Johnson County (which includes the college town of Iowa City), according to a Des Moines Register survey. In Polk County, an initial rush of requests tapered off by the week's end. There have been scattered reports of gay marriages by out-of-staters - including 17 gay and lesbian couples from Missouri who arrived by bus to wed in Iowa City. (See pictures of the busiest wedding day in history...
...brief ceremony was conducted by Judge Robert Hanson, whose 2007 ruling that the state's same-sex marriage ban treated gay and lesbian couples unequally under the law, landed the case in front of the Iowa Supreme Court. (Hanson's decision was in response to a lawsuit by six gay and lesbian couples denied marriages.) The teenagers each carried a calla lily. The couple shed a few tears and shared a laugh when the judge asked if they wanted to be referred to as "spouses" or "partners." (They went with "spouses.") An impromptu celebratory lunch followed at a brew...
...Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, immediately became the de facto frontrunner to replace him. Other names that have been proffered include Virginia Representative Bobby Scott, an African American being promoted by the Congressional Black Caucus, and former Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan, a lesbian being promoted by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund...
...interview for Politico, gay-rights advocate Dixon Osburn stated, “I don’t think [Obama] would shy away from [selecting a gay or lesbian nominee], but first and foremost he’s going to pick someone he thinks has constitutional gravitas...