June 28, 2011 4:16 AM by Adam Smeltz Anti-bias policy proposals introduced Monday night by State College Superintendent Michael Hardy may fulfill some key equal-treatment demands in a recent federal complaint. Hardy, the school district’s acting top...
June 24, 2011 By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL BARBARO ALBANY — Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum...
June 18, 2011 By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — Driving across the flatlands of Illinois with Barack Obama during the Senate race of 2004, Kevin Thompson sometimes found himself tutoring the candidate on gay rights. Mr. Thompson, then a traveling aide, recalls long...
Tue Jun 14, 2011 Reuters By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court here has ruled in favor of two school students who were disciplined in different districts for creating what lawyers called parodies of their principals on the MySpace social network...
June 21, 2011 By Peter Hall, OF THE MORNING CALL Easton Area students will be free to wear bracelets proclaiming “I ♥ Boobies!” while school officials appeal a ruling that the breast cancer awareness slogan is protected under the First Amendment. U.S....
By Caleb Taylor and Yasmin Tadjdeh, PA INDEPENDENT HARRISBURG — The state House voted unanimously Monday to ban a series of synthetic drugs, as lawmakers spoke in defense of public health. “There is not a day that goes by that we don’t pick up the...
