Topic: Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday approved a plan to extend the city's gay protections to contractorsNashville, Tennessee on Tuesday approved a plan to extend the city's gay protections to contractors. In 2009, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean signed into law a bill that bans ...

Ford Runs Down Tennessee to His New State

click to enlarge Harold Ford thinks there's a certain segment of Tennesseans who wouldn't accept his wife. Harold Ford Jr. continues to sell out the state that, just a few months ago, he thought he might want to serve as governor. He ...
click to enlarge Duanna Johnson We're not there yet, but this was a pretty groundbreaking vote: Here in Tennessee, and Memphis especially, transgendered women have been dropping like flies over the last few years: Our two senators, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker ...
Any oily lobbyist with a checkbook can waltz into any legislative office at any time of the day or night and receive a full hearing. In a series of audio reports on Liberadio's website, co-host Mary Mancini painted a picture of democracy ...

Adoption Emerges As The Next Gay Rights Battle

Challenges in Florida and Arkansas, and plans in Kentucky and Tennessee, make adoption the next gay rights battleThe announcement last week that conservatives had mounted a lawsuit against the Florida Bar to keep it from arguing in favor of allowing gays and ...