N.M. settles gay partner suit
(Santa Fe, New Mexico) The New Mexico government has agreed to offer health and other benefits to the domestic partners of retired state government workers.
The agreement ends a lawsuit filed in 2007 by three lesbians whose domestic partner benefits ended when they retired from state jobs.
In 2003, Bill Richardson issued …
GOP threatens Obama AG pick; Pressure mounts for gay Commerce Sec.
(Washington) As one LGBT political group presses for the appointment of a gay man to replace Commerce Secretary-nominee Bill Richardson, another is coming to the defense of Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr.
Holder goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee Jan. 15. For conservative Republicans, he is the liberal face of nominees to …
