May 28, 2014 | Adoption, Civil Rights, DOMA, LGBT Adoption, LGBT Law, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Radio Show, Same Sex Marriage
Today on WHYY’s Radio Times, Marty Moss-Coane hosted myself, one of my best friends and colleague, PA Rep Brian Sims, and someone I’ve known for way too long for just meeting in person, Law professor and author, John Culhane, discussing Judge Jones’...
May 12, 2014 | Civil Rights, DOMA, Legal Intelligencer, LGBT Law, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Same Sex Marriage
The fight for marriage equality in Pennsylvania may finally be coming to an end. There are multiple same-sex marriage cases that have been filed in Pennsylvania, but the American Civil Liberties Union and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller’s Whitewood...
May 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, DOMA, LGBT Law, Philadelphia Gay News, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Same Sex Marriage
Respect your elders. It’s one of the early cornerstones of manners that we are taught as kids. Yet LGBT elders don’t always automatically receive this same respect. Our LGBT elder trailblazers came out under fire, grew up when being gay was considered a mental-health...
Apr 16, 2014 | Civil Rights, Corporate Law, DOMA, Legal Intelligencer, LGBT Law, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Transgender Issues
The legal landscape for LGBT people today is quickly changing and hard to predict, but the trend over the last few years has been overwhelmingly positive—from the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s...
Apr 2, 2014 | DOMA, LGBT Law, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Same Sex Marriage
PhillyGayLawyer interviewed in this very important article from Tara Murtha Kim Stephan and Kate Peck spent a recent evening in the living room of their cozy home in Philadelphia reminiscing about the night they got engaged. Peck was a smooth operator: She invited...
Mar 10, 2014 | Civil Rights, DOMA, Legal Intelligencer, Philly Gay Lawyer Media, Same Sex Marriage
Remember the good old days of marriage when all you had to worry about choosing was a centerpiece and whether or not to invite that annoying second cousin on your mother’s side of the family? These days, as the battle for national recognition of same-sex...
