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- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- NEVADA SENATOR OUT AS GAY MARRIAGE ROLUTN ADVANC
- GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
- NEVADA STATE SEN. OUT DRAMATIC FLOOR SPEECH: 'I'M BLACK. I'M GAY'
- NEVADA SENATE OVERRIS GOVERNOR'S GAY PARTNER VETO
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.
Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.
Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn.
It was after the Supreme Court’s lg agast the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, which prompted a wave of ligatn throughout the untry agast state bans on same-sex marriage as legal advot saw a new opportuny to overturn them unr the new precent.
NEVADA SENATOR OUT AS GAY MARRIAGE ROLUTN ADVANC
Matt Wolkg, vice print of Axm Strategi, is among the Republin polil strategists vokg Cortez Masto’s fense of the marriage ban, rebg her on Twter on the basis she oppos gay rights — all while promotg her GOP opponent spe a lumn he wrote favor of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” the ary’s gay ban. 4 years after Laxalt’s lumn & 3 years after DADT was repealed, Masto fend Nevada’s ban on gay marriage, parg to bigamy and ct.
GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
Take, for example, the aforementned op-ed Laxalt wrote for the Natnal Review 2010 favor of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” when repeal of the ban on openly gay service members was beg nsired Congrs. Changg the law, Laxalt wrote, would make “fightg wars harr” on the basis that men “love to have sex” and the ary “nnot tolerate the tensns that surround sexual relatnships or potential on” that would e wh openly gay service members.
“To those who currently tolerate homosexuals but reta their God‐given right to reject homosexualy as a practiced liftyle — uld you do the above as a lear? It is one thg for the ary to ask s members to accepthomosexuals, but another for the ary to ask s members to accept and live whhomosexualy, the homosexual liftyle. I%27m gay%27Nevada Senate rolutn regniz all marriag%2C regardls of genrRolutn now go to the Nevada AssemblyCARSON CITY, Nev.
(AP) — The Nevada Senate, after an hour-long, soul-searchg bate about equaly, love and marriage passed a rolutn late Monday repealg the state's heterosexual fn of marriage, the first step a long procs to regnize gay emotnal ments, senators told of fay members who are gay; their own nflicts between relign and social jtice.
NEVADA STATE SEN. OUT DRAMATIC FLOOR SPEECH: 'I'M BLACK. I'M GAY'
I'm gay. David Parks, a Las Vegas Democrat who was the first openly gay elected to the Nevada Legislature, urged his lleagu' support.
" The famo crime agast nature evolved om English buggery laws, fed as homosexual or heterosexual anal terurse and btialy, all of which were referred to Sttish law as sodomy. 190—Nevada's sodomy law—was ed to terrify, blackmail, and persecute gay men by associatg them wh btialy, pedophilia, and rape. Wh that law place, the history of gay people Nevada until the last half of the 20th century is largely a history of crimal prosecutn.
NEVADA SENATE OVERRIS GOVERNOR'S GAY PARTNER VETO
In April 1991, Las Vegas Bugle publisher Rob Schlegel and Ken Tomoroy--a -founr of the Nam Project Nevada--formed a polil anizatn lled Cizens for Equal Jtice [CEJ] whose tent was to work toward tablishg equal rights for Nevada's gay cizens, cludg an effort to repeal NRS 201. Among the 30 people who attend that meetg were Schlegel and Tomoroy, gay polil advote and lumnist Lee Plotk, Tyrone Smh, Ted Grdano, attorney Kev Kelly, activist Judy Corbisiero, and Dr. At the same time the NCE was plottg strategy, a group of wealthy, well nnected A-Gays om southern Nevada was planng a behd-the scen asslt on NRS 201.
Brown didn't know about Nevadans for Constutnal Equaly, nor the southern Nevada A-Gays, and when she requted a bill draft [SB 466] to repeal the state's sodomy law, me entirely om her own belief equaly for all Nevada's cizens.