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A 34-year-old gay attorney, who was found dead in a parked car in March, was just reported to have died of an ecstasy overdose. A spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shared that D.C. resident Daniel Potucek died from “methylenedioxy-methamphetamine toxicity,” and says police are ruling it as an accident. That said, close friends and family of Potucek are not so sure. D.C. police says that Potucek was found unconscious while sitting in the front passenger seat of a...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has issued a new order in his never ending quest to keep the U.S. as white and straight as possible. In a wide-reaching move, Sessions says that the government will no longer accept the threat of gang violence or domestic abuse as grounds for asylum in the U.S. “The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes — such as domestic violence or gang violence — or that certain populations are more...

The attorney general of the largest sovereign tribal nation in the US says the prohibition is contrary to the Cherokee constitution. The attorney general of the Cherokee Nation, the largest sovereign tribal group in the US, is calling the tribe’s same-sex marriage ban a break with the constitution. Attorney General Todd Hembree released his opinion last week In it, he argues two provisions of the 2004 Cherokee Nation Marriage and Family Act are unconstitutional. ‘The constitution affords these rights to all Cherokee...

Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry is a lot of things. A husband. A father. A pro-gun, anti-choice Tea Partier. A climate change denier. An Obamacare hater. A Trump lover. And, naturally, a homophobe. In 2010, Landry supported a constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. In 2012, he went on a bizarre campaign to get rid of the LGBTQ Studies minor available at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. And just this year he refused to sign off on contracts...

A Bessemer attorney, who is against last year’s order by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage nationwide, on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against the five justices on the high court who made up the majority in that ruling. “Defendants (justices) goes beyond a manipulation, twist, strain, or unique perspective on the text and crosses over in to an abandonment of the Constitution,” attorney Austin Burdick states in the lawsuit. Burdick filed the lawsuit in Birmingham in the U.S. District...

California Test of 2008 Turn back the clock…..to June 16, 2008 when in California, gay marriage was made legal. The law was passed by the Supreme Court of California that disallowing same-sex couples from marriage was a direct violation of civil rights based on the California State Constitution. On June 17th, my wife and I were married, but it was no easy feat.  While the world thinks California is a liberal state full of happy queers and Dykes on Bikes,...