All Entries Tagged With: "Edward Kennedy"
Pro-LGBT lawmaker Patrick Kennedy to retire from Congress
A stalwart champion of LGBT rights and the last member of the Kennedy family to serve in Congress announced on Friday plans to retire at the end of this year as a U.S. House member.
In a two-minute video, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), the son of the late Edward Kennedy, says he won’t seek re-election, recalling his father’s “deep [...]
Rewind: Week of Jan. 22
The loss of Edward Kennedy’s U.S. senate seat to a Republican and the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down elements of campaign-finance law have caused much anxiety for the Obama administration, Democrats and progressives in general. But does the LGBT community need to worry?
On Tuesday, Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown defeated state Attorney General Martha [...]
Political shock in Mass. as Brown claims Kennedy’s seat
Republican Scott Brown secured a victory Tuesday in the Massachusetts special election, leaving many LGBT activists stunned and angry over the loss of the filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate and wondering whether the LGBT agenda can advance in Congress.
Brown, a state senator, won his bid to capture the seat previously held by the [...]
Pinup boy wins a Senate seat
Massachusetts voters stunned political observers Tuesday by electing former pinup Scott Brown to replace Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Brown overcame a double-digit lead by milquetoast candidate Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, to become the junior senator from Massachusetts.
As a Maryland resident, I had a front row seat to what I’d considered the worst campaign ever run: [...]
Rewind: Week of Jan. 15
The big LGBT story this week was the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Elsewhere, from Bozeman, Mont., to Beijing, China, our community and allies also fought discrimination, persecution and marginalization, winning some and losing a few.
On Monday, just before the Prop 8 trial was about to commence, the [...]
Could an anti-gay Republican take Kennedy’s seat?
The race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in the U.S. Senate could be tightening up as one recent poll shows an anti-gay Republican running even with the pro-LGBT Democratic candidate.
A poll published Saturday by Public Policy Polling shows state Sen. Scott Brown, the GOP candidate vying to succeed Kennedy, one point ahead of [...]
Obama, Kennedy and a year of change
From President Obama’s inauguration to the National Equality March, the last 12 months brought a variety of real and symbolic change for LGBT Americans. Marriage was the top story of the year, but here are the 10 other biggest stories of 2009.
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Barack Obama becomes 44th president: Telling a massive National Mall crowd that, “all are [...]
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