LGBT newsflashes
It apparently takes more than a few good men, according to the U.S. Marine Corps. It takes all kinds of people to support military families, including same-sex spouses of service members.
CNN published a story this week about a woman married to a female lieutenant colonel at North Carolina's Fort Bragg who believes she was rejected from an officers' spouse club because she's gay. Less than a day later, Maj. Gen. Vaughn Ary advised Marine Corps legal staff that such clubs conducting business on its bases must admit same-same spouses. If they do not, the clubs will be barred from meeting on any Marine Corps installation.
Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin took the oath of office in the U.S. Senate on Jan. 3, becoming the first openly gay person to serve in that chamber.
Illinois Senate Democrats are delaying a vote on a plan that would make the state the 10th in the nation to legalize gay marriage.
It was shaping up to be a typical Johnson County Board of Supervisors meeting Thursday morning — that is, until just near the end, when hoards of people began trickling in. They filled the seats, packed the back of the room, lined the walls and eventually had to wait outside.
Minnesota state Senator John Marty and Rep. Alice Hausman plan to introduce a gay marriage bill on the first day the Legislature convenes: Tuesday, January 8.
