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USA, Alaska: State Personnel Board May Include Same-Sex Partners In...
Alaska state employees may soon be able to take leave to care for a sick same-sex partner under a proposed rule change. Edge Boston reports: The proposed change in rules would allow state employees to...
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USA, Alaska: State Personnel Board Votes For Inclusion of Same-Sex Partners...
Alaska’s personnel board has decided to include partners of gay and lesbian employees as family for medical leave purposes. Towleroad reports: The board adopted new wording in regulations that allows...
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USA, Alaska: Lambda Legal Appeals Same-Sex Survivor Benefits Case to State...
Lambda Legal is pushing for Alaska to recognize survivor benefits for same-sex couples. Towleroad reports: Peter Renn, Lambda Legal Staff Attorney, said, via press release: “Alaska law traps same-sex...
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USA, Alaska: Senate Minority Leader Wants Marriage Equality Ban Repealed
There’s movement against a gay marriage ban in the US’s northernmost state. LGBTQ Nation reports: The minority leader of the Alaska Senate on Monday proposed to strike the constitutional ban on...
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USA: 30 States Have Marriage Equality Lawsuits; 5 Left to Go
Only five states that haven’t legalized marriage equality aren’t yet facing a marriage equality lawsuit – and two may be facing one soon. The Washington Post reports: Gay marriage is now legal in 17...
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USA, Alaska: Supreme Court Affirms Property Tax Rights for Same Sex Couples
It ain’t marriage equality, but it’s a step in that direction… Edge Boston reports: Same-sex couples in Alaska are equally entitled to the same state property-tax exemptions for senior citizens and...
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USA, Alaska: And Then There Were Two
A new marriage equality lawsuit has been filed in Alaska. On Top Magazine reports: Five gay and lesbian couples on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Alaska’s ban on gay marriage. Plaintiffs in...
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Victory in Alaska – The 30th Marriage Equality State
We’re at 30 – a federal judge in Alaska just struck down the ban there. The Washington Blade reports: A federal judge struck down on Sunday Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage, building on the momentum...
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Alaska Marriage Equality Back on Hold
The Ninth Circuit has put weddings in Alaska on hold once again until Friday as the Governor tries a hail-mary pass to the US Supreme Court. The Washington Blade reports: As the initial same-sex...
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Marriage Equality Back on in Alaska
Just hours after marriage equality arrived in Arizona, it came back to Alaska after a few days on hold. The Washington Blade reports: The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to delay any longer...
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