The ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, the most proment openly gay diplomat the Tmp admistratn, is leadg the effort. Crics are skeptil.
Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL FOR A FUTURE OF GREATER EQUALY: "WE WILL GET THERE SOMEDAY"
- MEET THE LAWYERS WHO WILL ARGUE THE GAY MARRIAGE SE
- BH'S SOLICOR GENERAL: GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT
- SELENDY & GAY NABS FORMER NY SOLICOR GENERAL OM GIBSON DUNN APPELLATE PRACTICE
- MURPHY APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY HISTORY
- NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE
- GAY COUPLE CLOSE CHOLATE SHOP AFTER ANTI-GAY ATTACK
FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL FOR A FUTURE OF GREATER EQUALY: "WE WILL GET THERE SOMEDAY"
Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn’s first openly lbian ernor and the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office. * gay solicitor general *
First openly gay state attorney general on Pri Month. First openly gay state attorney general on Pri Month and challeng facg LGBTQ muny.
At the start of the 52nd memoratn of the Stonewall rts, the first openly gay state attorney general said there is plenty to celebrate this Pri Month, while also regnizg the work still left the fight to advance LGBTQ+ equaly. Openly LGBTQ+ people workg the current admistratn clu Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Leve, and Whe Hoe prcipal puty prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre — who last week beme the first openly gay person to hold a Whe Hoe prs briefg.
Healey, who also serv as -chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Associatn, said she has seen firsthand the impact LGBTQ+ reprentatn ernment has on the gay muny.
MEET THE LAWYERS WHO WILL ARGUE THE GAY MARRIAGE SE
The lifelong Republin who argued Bh v. Gore before the Supreme Court—and won—go to urt this week to overturn California's ban on gay marriage. Huh? * gay solicitor general *
BOSTON (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn’s first openly lbian, the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office, feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Donald Tmp.
“I stand before you tonight proud to be the first woman and the first gay person ever elected ernor of Massachetts, ” she told supporters at a Boston hotel that he had lled Healey to ngratulate her on her w. ”Healey — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general. Meet the lawyer who will argue one si of the gay marriage se.
BH'S SOLICOR GENERAL: GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT
Andrew Bck will take over after Gurbir Grewal parts for the feral ernment July. Bck will be the state’s first openly gay attorney general. * gay solicitor general *
“Her sense was that we weren’t que ready for that yet, ” said Gary Beck, the legal director of Gay & Lbian Advot & Defenrs and a longtime iend and lleague of Bonto. Regardls of the cisn that down om the Court, the se will be historic and several lawyers were the mix to make the pro-gay marriage argument. It will all e down to Bonto and Doug Hallward-Driemeier, a lawyer who has never argued a gay rights se but is nsired an expert on the current Court.
SELENDY & GAY NABS FORMER NY SOLICOR GENERAL OM GIBSON DUNN APPELLATE PRACTICE
A web signer Colorado wants to lim her weddg-related servic to celebratns of heterosexual unns bee of her relig beliefs, but a state law prohibs discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public. * gay solicitor general *
She has never appeared before the Supreme Court, but has worked on some of the biggt gay marriage s at the lower urt level. READ: Obama admistratn formally supports natnwi gay marriage. There are two qutns before the Court the gay marriage se and she’ll argue the biggt one, which looks at whether stat have the thory to ban such unns.
READ: Wall Street ph SCOTUS on gay marriage.
While many lower urts have nsired whether stat n ban gay marriage, far fewer have led on whether stat mt regnize the lawful marriag of same-sex upl performed out of state.
MURPHY APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY HISTORY
Selendy & Gay announced today that Cal Halligan, one of the natn’s leadg appellate attorneys, has joed the firm. Her imprsive reer i * gay solicitor general *
Some advot for gay marriage fear that the send qutn might provi an off-ramp to jtic who may not be ready to make a natnwi lg. Although he has never argued a gay marriage se, he has appeared before the jtic 15 tim and has filed more than 150 briefs. Ted Olson would seem the unlikelit champn of gay marriage.
This week, after months of preparatn, he will argue on behalf of two gay upl Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a feral se challengg Proposn 8, the California ballot iative that outlawed same-sex marriage the 's brief agast Prop 8 is straightforward: laws banng gay marriage not only make no sense, they are unnstutnal. "He took on the se last fall, after he received a ll om Chad Griff, a gay activist California who was part of a team lookg for a lawyer to challenge Prop 8.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE
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He put the same qutn to all of them: why shouldn't gay people have the right to marry? "Many gay activists weren't any happier at first, believg an cremental approach was safer than bettg everythg on one big se. He has sce nvced them he is genue his nvictn that gay marriage is a civil-rights fact, Olson is surprisgly emotnal about the se, and his ey mist up repeatedly when he talks about the hundreds of letters—posive and negative—that he's received.
GAY COUPLE CLOSE CHOLATE SHOP AFTER ANTI-GAY ATTACK
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office has joed an vtigatn to an alleged asslt of a gay uple who n a cholate shop a Somersworth. * gay solicitor general *
"We should be welg our gay lleagu and iends as equals, " he says. '" Some nservativ, still tryg to figure out what happened to their old iend, have asked him when he cid he was for gay marriage. Cal Halligan, Selendy & Gay.
Selendy & Gay, a ligatn foced firm lnched jt over a year ago, has picked up top appellate lawyer Cal Halligan, a former solicor general for the state of New York. An announcement Monday om Selendy & Gay hailed Halligan’s arrival at the firm, where she be the 13th partner.