How will LGBT rights fare on Election Day and in coming months?
This editorial makes note of a half dozen places where LGBT-equality measures are likely to be decided today by voters or in the coming months by lawmakers. Voters in Maine and Washington state today will decide the fate of a marriage-equality law and a domestic-partnership law, while marriage measures in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., are on lawmakers' post-election agendas.
New York Times, The | 11/01
This story published in Gay & Lesbian Leadership SmartBrief on 11/03/2009
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