Keeping it short this week, since I need to go figure out how to build an emergency shelter out of Legos before the storm hits. Hope all of you are staying safe, too.
- The White House and the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that same-sex spouses and partners will be considered in case-by-case reviews of the approximately 300,000 immigrants currently in deportation proceedings. Immigration Equality has the rundown on what this means (and doesn’t mean) for our families.
- Gay and lesbian demographics made the front page of the New York Times, after a new analysis by UCLA’s Williams Institute of 2010 Census data. San Francisco and West Hollywood no longer reign. Provincetown, Mass. (also long a gay mecca), is now the leading city in terms of the proportion of same-sex couples, and Washington, D.C. is the leading “state” (loosely speaking). (Countdown to how long it will take the far-right to blame the East Coast hurricane on The Gays. . . .)
- Marriage equality advocates in Maine are off and running in their quest to collect enough signatures to put a pro-equality measure on the 2012 state ballot.
- Adam Ebbin looks likely to become the first openly LGBT Virginia state senator, when he won what the Gay and Lesbian Victory fund called “an all but determinative primary.”
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