the citizen times

The major search engine's mapping program had changed their street name to something much more homophobic. That has the couple and their kids worried.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors voted in favor of a resolution supporting gay marriage equality on Monday. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels said that the nations' mayors are seeking equality for all citizens.

For the few lesbians who tuned into Two and a Half Men instead of, oh, say that Pretty Little Liars finale, there was a special treat as Holland Taylor cozies up to another lady.

A spectator shouted "Have you no shame?" in Boise Friday morning after Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee voted against adding language to the Idaho Human Rights Act that would protect gay, lesbian, and transgender citizens.

Two lesbian and gay greats, Harvey Milk and Billie Jean King, will be honored Wednesday with a Medal of Freedom at the White House. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will host the ceremony in the East Room of the White House around 3 p.m.

Despite a 2012 amendment that prohibits marriage equality, the register of deeds in Buncombe County, North Carolina accepted marriage applications from ten same-sex couples on Tuesday.

Laws. Laws are what make people behave (supposedly) in a good way, what make them what we call good citizens of a country. They rule our lives and most of the time we do not think about them, they are just what they are and we have learned to live with them. But sometimes, laws are what can make our life very difficult.

A lesbian couple in Denver is waiting to learn about the next step in their life together, as the end of a federal immigration program may put their relationship in jeopardy. Earlier this year,American citizen Violeta Pando, and her Mexican-born wife, Sujey Pando, were granted more time together, after the Obama Administration instituted a rule designating deportation cases for binational couples as low priority, therefore postponing possible deportations

Last month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans and our allies celebrated New York State becoming the sixth and largest state to allow same-sex marriage. But what does it signal to us LGBTQ citizens when the first African American president wants to employ states’ rights, which once upon a time in this country federally mandated racial segregation and sanctioned American slavery, to address the issue of same-sex marriage?

One of the few times Oscar nominee and Emmy nominee Laura Dern appeared on television was when she famously played the apple of Ellen DeGeneres’ alter-ego Ellen Morgan’s eye in Ellen’s coming out, or, “Puppy Episode.” And while Dern, a David Lynch protégé if ever there were one, acted as the voice of reason as Ellen’s love interest Susan way back in 98, she’s never better than when she’s either unraveling or fully unraveled as in Alexander Payne’s deliciously black comedy Citizen Ruth.

Speaker John Boehner’s insistence on fighting to keep the Defense of Marriage Act is busting his budget, according to a complaint filed by a government watchdog group. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics alleges that Boehner directed payment of $500,000 to the law firm selected to defend DOMA and that not only is that more money than the federal government has to spend, it’s also illegal.CREW points to the Antideficiency Act, which it says is designed to stop government officials from overspending - violations of which can lead to jail time.

Tony winner Swoosie Kurtz has played lesbian a handful of times wooing the likes of Kelly Preston and Teri Hatcher in Citizen Ruth and Desperate Housewives respectively. Now she and her good gal pal Blythe Danner are teaming up to play Peter Facinelli's lesbian moms on Nurse Jackie. SheWired chatted with Kurtz about how she became the go-to gal for playing lesbian in Hollywood, making television history in Love Sidney and how she’s always wanted to kiss Danner on screen. 

Members of Parliament in the island nation of Malta approved legislation Monday granting same-sex couples the right to enter into a civil union and adopt children together.

Government attorneys have agreed to suspend deportation proceedings in the case of a binational lesbian couple in New York pending their marriage-based immigration case. Monica Alcota and Cristina Ojeda of Queens are the first married LGBT couple to argue in court that a pending deportation should be terminated since the Obama administration’s February announcement that it would no longer defend Section 3 the Defense of Marriage Act, according to their attorney. Alcota, a citizen of Argentina, wed her American wife last year in Connecticut but has continued to face removal proceedings.

Judy Rickard and her partner Karin are married and in love but since they are lesbians and one is from America and the other from Great Britain, American Federal law does not recognize their marriage. Judy chronicles her struggles as part of a binational lesbian couple in her book Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law. Here is part of her story...