All Posts Tagged With: "new york times"

What If You’re Gay? A New Feature.

By Tara Siegel Bernard – New York Times Last month, we explored the many extra costs that same-sex couples incur because their unions are not recognized by the federal government. But we’d like that story to serve as a conversation starter. Now that we know the issues — extra health insurance costs, potentially higher tax [...]

10Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Advocates Encouraged by Hate Crimes Bill

By Bao Ong – The New York Times As gay and immigrant rights advocates congregated in Jackson Heights, Queens, last week to educate citizens about their rights, Karina Claudio-Betancourt, a community organizer, peered at her BlackBerry and announced that the Senate had passed a measure to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability in [...]

28Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and [...]

26Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Protesting Ban on Gay Marriage

By THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of people marched through the streets here Friday night to protest the passage on Tuesday of Proposition 8, a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage. The march, which began near City Hall, snaked down the city’s main artery, Market Street, to the Castro district, a bastion of [...]

8Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued