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Thinking Out Loud
I’ve often thought I should write a column called “Weird Things Lawyers Do,” to explain to normal people why attorneys, like me, spend so much time arguing meaningless points. If you read any of the Prop 8 federal trial transcripts you may have noticed that a lot of the trial was spent arguing whether LGBT people had political...
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Is anyone really shocked about the revelations from the recently released internal memorandum from the National Organization for Marriage (“NOM”)? If you haven’t heard yet, this formerly confidential memo from 2009 lays out NOM’s national strategy for fighting same-sex marriage. There’s nothing in it that we didn’t...
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Why reproductive rights should matter to the LGBT community
If you’re like me, you don’t think a whole lot about birth control. You probably don’t have much heterosexual sex, though I shouldn’t assume, and you likely believed that we’d come to a grudging truce around a woman’s right to control her reproductive life. In...
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Why waiting for LGBT equality is a waste of time
While my home state of California is still wrestling with whether allowing gay marriage will send us floating out into the Pacific, other states have seen the light and are moving into the 21st century. If voter initiatives don’t ruin it, Maryland and Washington are set to be the...
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2011 will be known, in large part, for the Arab Spring. From my Los Angeles home, I felt such camaraderie with those brave, ordinary people who, as if on cue, came together to oust dictators and call for democracy. In Egypt, the word “Tahrir,” which once meant only the busy downtown square of cell phone retailers, restaurants,...
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I had meant to write about serious LGBT news this week, but I accidently fell down the sinkhole of celebrity gossip – in particular, the goings on of one Alan Osmond (yes, those Osmonds). It started with a video of the former star discussing how Chuck Norris was consulted to help make the boys less effeminate. They wanted to be...
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