Equality On Trial

Equality news round-up: Nine senators want a floor vote on ENDA, and more

June 19, 2012

Community/Meta Marriage Equality Trials

By Scottie Thomaston

- Nine senators are asking for the HELP committee members to advance ENDA to the Senate floor.

- The Department of Health and Human Services has released its report on promoting LGBT health worldwide.

- An update in Lambda Legal’s case Buntemeyer v. Iowa Department of Public Health, in which a married couple in Iowa gave birth to a stillborn baby, and Iowa’s health department erased one parent’s name from the death certificate, because it’s a lesbian couple.

- A new report says half of LGBT youth have been verbally harassed.

- Here is more on LGBT health advancements and where we need to go from here.

- Via Kathleen in Quick Hits, where we stand on DOMA/marriage equality cases. Also, Chris Geidner wrote on this. More to come on this.

- With a possible petition for certiorari pending in a challenge to DOMA (the defendants have not filed yet, but they have said they will) the DOJ immigration board is offering temporary reprieves from deportation.

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