Our Gay Lives

Today, President Barack Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. So now with this law being passed the Justice Department has the authority to investigate and prosecute fully any bias-motivated violent act where the perpetrator chose their victim based on a person’s actual or perceived race, color, [...]

Governor John Baldacci at one point was in support of civil unions and against gay marriage. Gov. Baldacci has since changed his feelings on the issue and said that he thought civil unions were not equal to civil marriage. That’s why in May of this year he signed a gay marriage bill into law for [...]