Ford Jr. gets tough reception from Stonewall Dems
(New York) Former Tennessee congressman and potential U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. got a tough reception while speaking to a gay advocacy group, and tried to explain he no longer opposes gay marriage.
Ford had voted twice for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and …
Beau Biden, VP’s son, won’t seek US Senate seat
(Dover, Del.) Beau Biden announced Monday that he will not seek election to the U.S. Senate seat long held by his father, Vice President Joe Biden, putting another Democratic-held Senate seat in jeopardy and dealing another blow to President Barack Obama’s flailing party.
The Delaware attorney general told supporters in an …
Harold Ford, seeking Senate, flips on gay marriage
(New York) Former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. is readying for a fight in the race to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this fall’s Democratic primary.
Ford, who represented Tennessee in the House, has said he has not decided yet whether to get into the New York U.S. Senate race, but …
Senate confirms 1st openly gay US marshal
Minneapolis assistant police Chief Sharon Lubinski has become the first openly gay U.S. marshal. The U.S. Senate confirmed the Green Bay, Wis. native to be the U.S. marshal for the Minnesota district. Last week’s confirmation also makes her the first female marshal in the state.
Lubinski has served a number of …
Federal LGBT employment benefits bill moves out of committee
From HRC:
(Washington) The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today praised the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for marking up S. 1102, the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO). Held by Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), the 8-1 …
Mass. GOP candidate outlines senate strategy
(Needham, Mass.) Republican Scott Brown is hoping to ride a tide of voter anger at Wall Street bailouts and soaring national debt as he seeks to topple Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward Kennedy.
In an interview with The Associated …
Senate adopts amendments to hate crimes measure
The U.S. Senate has adopted a hate crimes measure as part of the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — and with it, amendments introduced by an opponent of hate crimes legislation.
Adopted on July 16 by unanimous consent after cloture was invoked, 63-28, the hate crimes measure was altered by four amendments. All four amendments were approved Monday.
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Senate gives nod to gay-inclusive hate crimes bill
The U.S. Senate voted 63-28 to attach gay-inclusive federal hate crimes legislation to the 2010 defense authorization bill. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D.-Mass., who first proposed amending U.S. hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation, issued a statement saying that the proposal would “[close] the flagrant loopholes that for too long have prevented effective prosecution of these shocking crimes that terrorize entire groups of communities across America.” Google/The Associated Press
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Out advocate for seniors named to HHS post
Kathy Greenlee, the out secretary of aging for the state of Kansas, is the White House’s pick to become assistant secretary for the Administration on Aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her nomination must be approved by the U.S. Senate. Washington Blade * Tags = gay men gay news lesbian news transgender bisexual
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Paterson announces Gillibrand as new NY Senator
(New York City) New York Gov. David Paterson on Friday named U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York’s vacant U.S. Senate seat.
Gillibrand, 42, is a second-term lawmaker from upstate New York. She is a proven vote-getter in a largely rural eastern New York district that sprawls from the mid-Hudson …
