Last week, One Iowa spoke out against the National Organization of Marriage (NOM) by creating a petition for supporters of marriage for gay and lesbian couples to sign. NOM―a New Jersey-based anti-gay organization―launched their Reclaim Iowa campaign last week attempting to undermine existing law that extends marriage to gay and lesbian couples.
According to One Iowa’s [...]
This past April, history was made when the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously voted to uphold the right for gay and lesbian couples to marry in their state. They wrote in their decision that their state’s statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection [...]
Last week, I got back to GLAAD’s NYC office from a week and a half trip to Iowa. I traveled to Des Moines to assist One Iowa with their media and communications work.
As a member of GLAAD’s Media Field Strategy team, working on the ground with the great staffs of One Iowa and Lambda Legal was [...]
This morning, One Iowa released a new TV ad in support of marriage for all Iowa families.
From One Iowa:
Today, One Iowa launched this ad to start a conversation with Iowans about the Supreme Court decision that brought marriage equality to the heartland. We can’t take this victory for granted. Right now our opponents are working [...]
GLAAD sent an email to members today, urging them to stand with One Iowa against an ad campaign being run by the anti-gay activist group the National Organization for Marriage. From the email:
“The distorted, misleading claims of the National Organization for Marriage do one thing and one thing only – perpetuate a climate of hostility and [...]
A press release from California Faith for Equality celebrated the Iowa court decision for marriage equality and challenged the California court to make a decision that goes beyond “popularity” or beliefs of “religious caucuses.”
CALIFORNIA CLERGY APPLAUD IOWA COURT – SAY ‘OVERTURN PROP 8′
When Iowa’s high court ruled on April 3 that same-sex couples can marry, California [...]
Breaking news from the DesMoines Register:
The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays’ right to marry.
“The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,” the justices said in a summary of their decision.
While much of the media is still concentrating on the passage of anti-gay legislation back in November, many gains for LGBT equality are being made across the nation.
Just yesterday, our community and elected officials made these changes!
Columbus, Ohio, and Binghamton, [...]
Though the recent passage of three statewide marriage bans this fall was discouraging, it’s time to look ahead to which states are putting marriage to the top of their agenda. A report released by New Jersey’s Civil Union Review Commission this morning says that civil unions are just not enough, and that legislators must continue [...]
The below post is by Sarah Kennedy, the Central Region’s Media Field Strategist here at GLAAD.
During the weekend of October 4th, Des Moines, Iowa held its 30th annual Capital City Pride. This year, for the first time ever, GLAAD was in Des Moines to celebrate and participate in their annual festivities.
Though the festival and parade were supposed to take [...]
On the July 28 edition of Clear Channel’s nationally syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, host Jim Quinn made defamatory anti-gay comments while discussing a federal case in which a jury ruled that the city of Philadelphia could not bar a Boy Scouts chapter from city-owned property despite the organization’s anti-gay policy.
