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Contents:

• 9 QUTNS WH 9ENTERTAMENT: WHY VIRGIA GAY WILL NEVER WATCH THE SHOWS SHE STARS
• VIRGIA GAY: TRISH
• APPEALS PANEL STRIK DOWN VIRGIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• VIRGIA BE THE FIRST STATE THE SOUTH TO BAN GAY AND TRANS PANIC AS A FENSE
• VIRGIA BE 12TH STATE TO BAN GAY/TRANS PANIC FENSE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• NEW LAW VIRGIA BANS GAY AND TRANS PANIC AS MURR FENSE

9 QUTNS WH 9ENTERTAMENT: WHY VIRGIA GAY WILL NEVER WATCH THE SHOWS SHE STARS

It follows four everyday people as they go beyond the ll of jury duty to tch a the latt episos of After the Verdict on get you exced for the premiere tonight, we sat down wh Virgia Gay, who plays a lead role the show. Virgia Gay stars the brand new seri, After the Verdict. Virgia Gay.

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VIRGIA GAY: TRISH

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond led 2-1 that gay men and lbians have a nstutnal right to marry that is paramount to state marriage laws.

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APPEALS PANEL STRIK DOWN VIRGIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN

Bee Virgia's new Democratic attorney general, Mark Herrg, had refed to fend the state's gay marriage ban, that task was left to circu urt clerks om two unti. "In his dissent, Judge Niemeyer rrectly noted that 'there is no fundamental right to same-sex marriage, and there are ratnal reasons for not regnizg , '" Babne jtic paved the way last year for what has bee an unbroken strg of feral and state urt victori for gay marriage proponents.

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"The 4th Circu has affirmed that equaly is not jt a California value or a New York value — 's a fundamental Amerin value, " said Chad Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn's leadg gay rights 10th Circu appeals urt clus Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and Wyomg, as well as New Mexi, where same-sex upl already n marry.

VIRGIA BE THE FIRST STATE THE SOUTH TO BAN GAY AND TRANS PANIC AS A FENSE

Appeals also are pendg om Arkansas, Texas and high urt led last June that the feral ernment mt regnize legal same-sex marriag, and cleared the way for California to bee the 13th state where gay men and lbians uld marry.

VIRGIA BE 12TH STATE TO BAN GAY/TRANS PANIC FENSE

Sce then, six other stat have legalized gay marriag by legislative actn or urt orr — New Jersey, New Mexi, Illois, Hawaii and, most recently, Pennsylvania and than 70 lawsus are pendg all 31 stat that still have prohibns. It om the South, a regn that has yet to embrace gay marriage. And the lawyers for the origal gay and lbian platiffs, Theodore Olson and David Boi, are the same on who won gay marriage rights California last year.

"Today's cisn stands as a ttament that all Amerins are created equal, and nyg lovg gay and lbian upl the opportuny to marry is fensible, " Olson the verdict was announced, North Carola Attorney General Roy Cooper said he no longer would fend his state's gay marriage ban. They have been joed by the platiffs another Virgia se, Joanne Harris and Jsi Duff of Stnton and Christy Berghoff and Victoria Kidd of Wchter, who seek to reprent all gay and lbian upl the Floyd's lg left ltle doubt about where the panel majory stands on their right to marry. Virgia Gay is most known for her work on the Atralian TV dramas Wners & Losers and All Sats.

Approvg a bill troduced by s only transgenr lawmaker, Virgia beme the first state the South to ban “gay and trans panic” as a fense for murr or manslghter. People who are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer make up an timated 4.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

And for many years, people who mted vlent crim agast LGBTQ people have claimed gay and trans panic as a fense, often argug that the victim’s genr inty or sexualy provoked them to kill a crime of passn. Though the fense is equently ed, ’s a homophobic and transphobic relic that “sends a msage that vlence agast LGBTQ people is acceptable and that their liv are worth ls due to their genr inty or sexual orientatn, ” said D’Arcy Kemnz, executive director of the Natnal LGBT Bar Associatn.

That’s why ’s pecially important – and “simply staggerg” – that Virgia has passed the ban on gay and trans panic, Kemnz told CNN. The men charged wh the killg of 21-year-old gay llege stunt Matthew Shepard, beaten and left to die Laramie, Wyomg, also planned to e the “gay panic” fense their trial.

NEW LAW VIRGIA BANS GAY AND TRANS PANIC AS MURR FENSE

Virgia has bee the 12th state to ban the e of the “gay/trans panic” Ralph Northam signed a bill Wednday agast the fense, which has allowed those acced of homici to receive lser sentenc by sayg they panicked after fdg out the victim’s sexual orientatn or genr bill passed the state Hoe and the Senate bill’s thor, Democratic Delegate Dani Roem said she first beme aware of the fense after Matthew Shepard, a gay man, was murred 1998, and the men who killed him ed the fense urt, acrdg to the Amerin Bar Associatn.

If you've missed the premiere episo, don't worry, you n stream the first episo on the latt episos of After the Verdict on the Verdict follows four everyday people as they go beyond the ll of jury duty to tch a for those who are already gripped by Atralia's newt whodunn, we have two exclive scen for the next episo for you to check the first scene (which you n watch the vio above), Margie (Magda Szubanski) is hidg somethg om her fiancée Trish (Virgia Gay) (Magda Szubanski) and her fiancée Trish (Virgia Gay) as seen After The Verdict.