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Equality Alabama was formed by the 2002 merger of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Alabama and Equality Begins at Home of Central Alabama. [1] The organization began to increase its activity prior to the 2005 referendum that banned same-sex marriage in the state. Representatives for the organization have stated that the additional visibility was ...
The Amendment 774 of 2006, also known as Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, is an amendment to the Alabama Constitution that makes it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The legislature passed Alabama Act 2005-35, which placed this amendment on the election ballot. [3]
Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in Alabama since 2003, when the United States Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas struck down all state sodomy laws.On May 23, 2019, the Alabama House of Representatives passed, with 101 voting yes and 3 absent, Alabama Senate Bill 320, which repeals the ban on "deviate sexual intercourse".
The first openly transgender elected official in Indiana. [72] Currently running for Indiana State Senate, District 24. [73] Donna Price Democratic: Albemarle County, Virginia: Board of Supervisors, Scottsville Magisterial District Vice-chair, 2020–2024 Chair, 2024–present The first transgender supervisor and second elected public official ...
The other counties either issued licenses only to opposite-sex couples or stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court had declined state officials' requests for a stay. On March 3, 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court, ruling in a different case, ordered the state's probate judges to ...
Thousands of registered voters in Alabama who have previously been identified as noncitizens by the federal government will have their registration status changed to inactive, the secretary of ...
In Alabama, state Supreme Court justices are elected in partisan races. Parker was barred from running again because he is older than the state’s mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court ...
An Alabama district judge who presides over cases in juvenile court, often involving child abuse or neglect, has been suspended after a state-led investigation that looked at hundreds of cases and ...