Sexual Orientation and the Law Blog

The Chronicle Higher Education reports that "65 percent of the college freshmen surveyed last fall supported same-sex marriage, compared with 58 percent of Americans 18 to 29 years old and 39 percent of the population nationwide," according to new data...

The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender is hosing a symposium on Reconstructing Masculinities on March 26. Panel presentations will focus on "contemporary masculinities, their interactions with feminist and queer theory, and the role of masculinities in education and the...

When General David Petraeus was running the Iraq war, Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, routinely fell all over themselves to praise his wisdom and competence. Now, Petraeus says "the time has come to consider a change to ‘don’t ask, don’t...

Veteran advocate Matt Coles, director of the ACLU's LGBT rights project, writes in the Huffington Post about what might happen if the federal challenge to California's Proposition 8 makes it all the way to the US Supreme Court. Coles previously...

US Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) has introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act (H.R. 4806). According to the ACLU, the legislation would aim to help reduce the number of children languishing in state-run facilities by restricting federal funding to...

Matt Coles, director of the ACLU's LGBT rights project, analyzes the possible outcomes in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal challenge being litigated by Ted Olson and David Boies to California's Prop 8, which bars marriage equality for same-sex couples. Coles...

Mexico City's law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect last week, and hundreds of gay and lesbian couples applied for marriage licenses at civil-registry offices, reports journalist Rex Wockner. The first weddings are expected as early as tomorrow when the couples'...

A rural Mississippi school district has called off a high school prom rather than allow a lesbian student to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. -SS

Students in Virginia -- more than 660 at latest count -- are organizing online to protest a statement by the state's socially conservative Republican attorney general that anti-discrimination policies at the state's colleges and universities based on sexual orientation and...

The March issue of Professor Art Leonard's indispensable Lesbian/Gay Law Notes is now available. The lead story features coverage and analysis of the opinion by Maryland's Attorney General that there was no impediment under Maryland law to the state recognizing...