LGBTQ

Glenn Burke: The First Openly Gay Man In Pro Sports

Actually, Jason Collins Isn’t the First Openly Gay Man in a Major Pro Sport By Allen Barra, The Atlantic “A few months back, the Baltimore Ravens’ Brendon Ayanbadejo, an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights, told USA Today that he thought the first player in the three major sports to out…
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Supreme Court to Hear Marriage Equality Cases

Wedding Bells Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker “A decade later, it’s clear that Scalia was right. Once a society decides that the law must treat a group of people equally in one area of life, it becomes harder—and, eventually, impossible—to justify discriminating against them in others. If gay people can’t…
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Same Sex Marriage Debate

Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships New York Times Updated: Feb. 20, 2012 Same-sex marriage became a reality in the United States in 2004 in the wake of a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that it was required under the equal protection clause of the state’s Constitution. Prior…
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