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Contents:

• CAN GAY PRISON INMAT GET MARRIED NOW? CAN THEY SHARE A CELL?
• GAY UPLE SERVG LIFE SENTENC TO MARRY PRISON
• CONVICTED MURRERS BEE FIRST GAY UPLE TO MARRY PRISON
• THE GAY MARRIAG OF A NETEENTH-CENTURY PRISON SHIP
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• CALIFORNIA ALLOWS GAY NJUGAL VISS PRISONS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY MARRIAG NOW PRISON
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• GAY PRISONERS KENTUCKY
• GAY INMAT TO BE GRANTED CONJUGAL VISS CALIFORNIA

CAN GAY PRISON INMAT GET MARRIED NOW? CAN THEY SHARE A CELL?

On Saturday, Attorney General Eric Holr announced sweepg reforms to the feral jtice system signed to treat gay upl equally unr feral law. Prr to the policy shift, married gay upl were still nied spoal privilege, jot bankptcy protectns, visatn feral prisons, and survivor benefs om several feral programs.

The privileg lie feral statut, which the attorney general mt terpret and enforce—and unr DOMA, they uld not be legally granted to gay upl. Wdsor opn, Jtice Anthony Kennedy explicly noted that DOMA “priv [gay upl] of the Bankptcy Co’s special protectns, ” cg such legal burns as a reason to strike down the law.

GAY UPLE SERVG LIFE SENTENC TO MARRY PRISON

Intrigugly, the only five stat that perm such viss—California, Connecticut, New Mexi, New York, and Washgton—also regnize gay marriag. If two gay mat feral prison a state that regniz gay marriage choose to get married, they won’t face any legal impediments. Bankptcy falls unr feral jurisdictn, so a legally married gay uple n file any feral urt, whether they live California or Kentucky, and receive special spoal protectns.

Siarly, the feral ernment ns untls survivor benef programs, such as Social Secury, and n provi benefs to married gay upl no matter what state they live . Holr’s new polici enroll gay upl the September 11 Victim Compensatn Fund, the Radiatn Exposure Compensatn Program, and a program for the survivors of police officers and firefighters killed on the job. We’ll jump to the pot here: There is no nclive evince to support Carson’s claim that "a lot of people" make a swch om heterosexual to homosexual while prison.

CONVICTED MURRERS BEE FIRST GAY UPLE TO MARRY PRISON

Further, the medil muny tends to nclu that homosexualy is not a matter of choice -- notably the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Of those 24, 18 changed om straight to bisexual, three changed om bisexual to straight, and one each changed om bisexual to gay, gay to bisexual, and gay to straight.

THE GAY MARRIAG OF A NETEENTH-CENTURY PRISON SHIP

It’s possible that people go to prison unaware of their sexualy, and then once they are exposed to homosexual behavr as an mate, they realize that they are gay or bisexual, Helen Eigenberg, who also studi prison sexualy as a profsor at the Universy of Tennsee at Chattanooga, said an terview wh PoliFact. Greg Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California Davis who studi sexual orientatn, poted to a natnally reprentative study that shows the vast majory of gay men and women do not perceive their sexual orientatn as a rult of choice. People n change their behavr -- such as engagg homosexual behavr prison -- but that do not equate to a change orientatn, Bailey, the Northwtern rearcher, told PoliFact.

Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010. A gay uple taed one of the UK’s tought prisons are to marry after nductg an illic relatnship the men are servg life sentenc for murr Full Sutton prison near York, which ho some of the most dangero offenrs the untry.

Mikhail Gallatov, a nvicted paedophile, was jailed 1997 for the murr of Adrian Kamsky – who he had met through a gay chat le. Then they managed to get on the same wg and had sex regularly, ” she submtg their applitn for marriage, the men have been spl up and hoed on different wgs, the source Sutton has a “Rabow” group, where gay, bisexual and transgenr prisoners n meet to discs issu and problems. The logic was that prisoners should largely enjoy the same human rights as their ee unterparts, and that buildg and retag fay ti n help wh the rehabilatn wh the troductn of the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Coupl) Act g to force last year, gay mat are now legally allowed to marry each other si jail, g logistil issu for prison is no le prohibg sex or relatnships between prisoners, but prison officers do not allow mat to have sexual relatnships, acrdg to the Commissn on Sex Prison, rried out by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

He said he had never heard of a gay marriage or civil partnership between prisoners si a jail, but predicted this would not be the last. He said: “Paradoxilly, given that legal and cultural progrsns have almost renred the ‘gay liberatn ont’ rndant the UK, the suatn prisons for homosexual men is arguably more difficult now. Goodw was jailed 10 years later for a homophobic killg on Blackpool seaont that was scribed by police as “a savage, sensels homophobic attack that rulted the ath of a harmls man” men are servg life sentenc at Full Sutton prison East their weddg ceremony, the pair exchanged personal vows they had wrten ont of a ngregatn which clud relativ, a few fellow prisoners and four prison officers who had also been ved.

Gay mat are now legally allowed to marry jail followg the troductn of the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Coupl) Act last year.

” In his tellg, at least a hundred men aboard the prison ships Bermuda had same-sex partners whom they nsired, the official archive of gay marriage is still s fancy: the Uned Stat, June marked the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s lg Obergefell v. (It wasn’t until the end of the neteenth century, when “homosexual” and “heterosexual” were vented as medil tegori, that more wrten evince of the existence of what we might ll gay muni emerged.

CALIFORNIA ALLOWS GAY NJUGAL VISS PRISONS

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. SAN FRANCISCO (Rters) - California has cid to sanctn gay sex wh prison walls for the first time by allowg mat to have njugal viss wh registered same-sex domtic partners, officials said on change the l follows mands by Vernon Foeller, 40, a former club disc jockey who repeatedly sought permissnfor a vis om his domtic partner.

GAY MARRIAG NOW PRISON

”Gay sex outsi of njugal viss is still banned California prisons and mat who marry prison or same-sex upl prison are eligible for the the program, an mate is allowed to live a small apartment or trailer wh the prison grounds for up to 72 hours wh a spoe or partner or immediate fay members. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio. Brish mat Marc Goodw and Mikhail Gallatov beme the first men to marry one another the Brish penal system last year, spe servg life sentenc for "hate crim targetg homosexuals, " the Standard reports.

Acrdg to The Guardian, Gallatov is a nvicted pedophile who was nvicted 1997 of murrg a man he met through a gay chat le.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Goodw was sentenced 2007 for killg Mallm Benfold, 57, what was scribed by police as "a savage, sensels homophobic attack that rulted the ath of a harmls man.

Last qutns if "the homophobic murrs [uld] have been mted by gay men — which se, they weren't really "homophobic, " then, were they? All Post podstsThe Post's premier daily podst, featurg unparalleled reportg, expert sight and clear analysis, every weekday Reads: A gay uple ran a rtrant peace. Saturday, July 15, 2023In the ty town of Plas, Va., the nservative Christian neighbors of the gay-owned Front Porch Market and Grill have been workg to shut down the rtrant.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

1This is an tertg time the changg legal landspe relatg to gay and lbian prisoners, but public and scholarly attentn is lackg.

Rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred prisoners are often nceived of eher long-tablished ncerns relatg to guards’ discrimatn or newly popular attentn to the special needs of transgenred prisoners. Although the are important issu, such a foc n lead advot and urts to overlook the evolvg standards (or stagnant polici, spe apparent potential for progrs) regardg the rights of gay and lbian prisoners.

GAY PRISONERS KENTUCKY

Visatn and other rights are vastly different for gay and lbian prisoners unls the progrs broar society this regard is brought to bear upon the prison system. Fally, the article touch upon the ntroversial topic of homosexual protective ctody, and not that judicial unwillgns to require standards has left the issue stagnated and ill-explored.

Spoal Visatn RightsIn most regards, visatn polici vary too greatly and are too pennt upon dividualized factors relatg to each prisoner to be subject to easy tegorizatn or analysis based on the impact on gay and lbian prisoners. 8 On the other extreme, Mississippi, by statute and through a provisn of s state nstutn, prohibs gay marriage and exprsly bars regnn of gay marriag validly performed elsewhere.

9 In addn to the newly announced regnn of gay marriage (which will be explored a moment), California’s Domtic Partner Rights and Rponsibili Act of 2003 is extremely broad, providg that “Registered domtic partners shall have the same rights, protectns, and benefs, and shall be subject to the same rponsibili, obligatns, and duti unr law, whether they rive om statut, admistrative regulatns, urt l, ernment polici, mon law, or any other provisns or sourc of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spo. 12 The domtic partner statute and the CDCR’s terpretatn rema extremely important, however, bee some gay and lbian upl may choose to rema registered domtic partners, preferrg that to marriage for any number of personal reasons. 13 Regardls of what may happen November, the California Supreme Court’s recent cisn will have wi-rangg implitns for gay and lbian ligants, cludg anyone challengg a prison’s arguably discrimatory polici on any subject.

GAY INMAT TO BE GRANTED CONJUGAL VISS CALIFORNIA

14 In the past, discrimatn agast gays and lbians ( prison or out) uld be jtified by the state wh nothg more than a “ratnal basis” for the different treatment – the lowt level of quiry nstutnal jurispnce. It was the third gay marriage to be performed a feral prison Canada sce gay marriage was regnized on the natnal level July 2005. This prciple, however, is not followed a number of s brought by gay and lbian prisoners seekg accs to publitns or even the relig servic of their Metropolan Communy Church veloped a special mistry for homosexuals many years ago.

Prison officials jtified the le as promotg safety and secury bee those who received such materials, they said, would be perceived as gay and th more likely to be targeted by other prisoners for abe.

”24 Th, the relative succs of those phg for greater prisoner accs to gay and lbian publitns ironilly is entrenchg a creria that would be wholly unacceptable outsi the prison ntext. Even more troublg is the fact that the urt accepted at face value prison officials’ claim that receivg gay publitns would put the prisoner at risk of harm and that prison officials were pable of operatg a prison safe enough for a prisoner to receive such publitns. In an tertg parallel wh the ban on gay and lbian publitns, the BC this se relied on s asssment that other prisoners may e to believe that the practners were engagg dark magic agast them, which uld lead to vlence.