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Equality Michigan is the state's most prominent LGBT advocacy group.. Sexual acts between persons of the same sex are legal in Michigan. They had been criminalized until the state's sodomy laws, which applied to both homosexuals and heterosexuals, were invalidated in 2003 by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v.
In Florida, a 1977 law prohibited adoption by homosexuals following the anti-gay Save Our Children campaign led by Anita Bryant. In November 2008, a state circuit court struck down the law through In re: Gill , a case involving a gay male couple raising two foster children placed with them in 2004 by state child welfare workers. [ 53 ]
On March 21, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled the state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples unconstitutional. More than 300 same-sex couples married in Michigan the next day before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed enforcement of the district court's decision. On November 6, the Sixth ...
The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information in this article may be ...
The highest-profile example of the “gay panic defense” was perhaps the attempt to use it in the murder trial of Aaron McKinney, one of the two men accused of fatally beating 21-year-old gay ...
The law made it possible for businesses within the state of Indiana to discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community based on their personal religious beliefs. Pence did his best to label ...
In 1903, a "gross indecency" law was enacted by the Michigan Legislature, further criminalizing non-heterosexual activity. In 1922, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the gross indecency law in the case of People v. Carey. In 1923, the sodomy law was amended to eliminate the need to prove emission of semen to prove the crime.
One Gallup poll, conducted as recently as May, found that 69 percent of people believe same-sex marriage should be recognized by law with the same rights as heterosexual marriages.