Following is a quintessentially irreverent and irascible swan song from our main man Barney (I have excerpted quite a bit; full text is here): Washington Blade: To what degree have you seen support for LGBT equality increase in the U.S. Congress since you took office as a congressman in 1981? Rep. Barney Frank: Oh, enormously. When I first [...]
Sounds like things went extremely well for the Lambda Legal argument in the Glenn v. Brumby case before the 11th Circuit this morning, with support from all three members of the panel. It's dangerous to assume too much from an oral argument, and the decision below which the Court of Appeals is being asked to [...]
Judges Rosemary Barkett, Phyllis Kravitch, and William Pryor will decide two lgbt-related cases to be argued this week before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Barkett and Kravitch (who is on senior status) are two of the liberal members of what is usually a conservative circuit; they were appointed by Presidents Clinton and Carter, respectively. Pryor, considered [...]
[ADDED] Tuesday, November 29 – Oral argument in the 11th Circuit in Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley, in which Jennifer Keeton, a graduate student in counseling at Augusta (GA) State University, is challenging the ruling of a District Court that ASU was justified in requiring her to complete a remediation plan after she refused to counsel gay [...]
The Massachusetts state legislature has amended its state anti-discrimination code to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity in employment, housing, credit and education. The legislation also expands the state hate crimes law to cover gender identity. Protection from discrimination in public accommodations was dropped from the bill to ensure its passage. The amendment, which will take [...]
GLAD has settled the case it brought on behalf of Vanessa Adams, a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate at FMC Butner in North Carolina who has gender identity disorder (GID). Adams sued BOP in order to receive appropriate treatment for her GID, and the settlement is based on a recent Bureau of Prisons policy [...]