LEG ALERT! 2nd Parent Adoptions Bill Committee Hearing Monday!

| February 5, 2011

Salt Lake City Utah – SB 62, which would allow 2nd parent adoptions has been scheduled for the the Senate Health and Human Service Committee for this coming Monday at 8am. Everyone needs to be there! If you can’t make it, follow the instructions below. Current Utah law only allows married individuals to adopt children. [...]

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New Yale Study Finds LGBT Youth 40% More Likely To Be Punished

| December 6, 2010

A new study released by Yale University has found that LGBT yough (or non-heterosexual) youth are 40% more likely to be punished than their hetero piers by both courts and schools for the same infractions. How pathetic is this? Tipped by PRIDEinUtah reader Bill T. The research, described as the first national look at sexual [...]

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Maine Joins the Fight For Equality

| January 14, 2009

Just one month after gay-rights advocates announced plans for all of New England to have Gay Marriage on the books by 2012, Maine has joined the long list of states with Same-Sex Marriage bills coming up for votes. Senator Dennis Damon proposed the new bill, saying that after watching the results of [Maine's] domestic registry, “it [...]

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