Each weekday, Get Busy, Get Equal brings you a sampling of national and regional LGBT news, the latest on what's new in LGBT relationships, and new developments in ACLU work. We're making progress, but since every step forward is met with resistance, we've got to fight smart to win. Get informed.
ACLU NEWS
Schroer v. Billington
Diane Schroer began taking steps to transition from male to female shortly after retiring as a Colonel after 25 years of distinguished service in the Army. She was offered and accepted a job as a terrorism research analyst at the Library of Congress, but when she told her future supervisor that she was in the process of gender transition, they rescinded the job offer. The ACLU is now representing her in a Title VII sex discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress. Learn more about her case here.
- Transgender vet wins suit against federal agency (Philadelphia Gay News)
- Ann Rostow: Big Win for MTF Diane Schroer (San Francisco Bay Times)
RELATIONSHIPS NEWS
California Prop. 8:
- Levi's Joins Fight to Defeat Marriage Ban (Associated Press)
- Levi Strauss & Co. joins PG&E as Co-Chair of No On Prop 8 Equality Business Council (No on Prop. 8 press release)
- OP-ED: Stopping Same-Sex Unions Protects No One (Los Angeles Times)
- OP-ED: Prop. 8 Is a Vote for Social Justice (Marin Independent Journal)
- CA: conservative business org opposes Prop 8 (Pam’s House Blend)
- Gay Marriage Fight Good News for California Channel (Politics Blog - San Francisco Chronicle)
- Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage Call Civil Union Commission "Biased" (The Star-Ledger)
- Rights and Recognition for Same-Sex Marriage (Gotham Gazette)
- Benefits for Same-Sex Partners Focus of Senate Hearing (Washington Post)
In which a bureaucrat opposed to domestic partner protections for federal employees raises, TOTALLY with a straight face, the spectre of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry as an argument
PARENTING NEWS
YOUTH AND SCHOOLS NEWS
- Lawyer Named as a Guardian for McInerney (Ventura County Star)
- ‘These kids are invisible’: An LGBT youth shelter in words and pictures (365Gay)
- Siciliano: LGBT teen homelessness is an epidemic (365Gay)
DISCRIMINATION NEWS
- ‘Déjà vu all over again’: Sheriff’s LGBT supporters say anti-gay politics are marring yet another major Dallas election (Dallas Voice)
Quotes Dottie Griffith of the ACLU of Texas