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As individuals and advocacy groups push to advance the rights of LGBT citizens across the nation, a frequently overlooked area is the discrimination that older gay residents can face when they have to check into nursing homes for short- and long-term care. As the generation of civil rights heroes who marched and fought for equal rights in the 1960s grows older and faces the health problems associated with aging, a new frontier opens in the battle for the right to …

Immigrants who are part of stable, same-sex couples in the United States will face a lower chance of deportation if the policies of the Department of Homeland Security and the Obama administration are actually written down. Immigration policy promoted by the Obama Administration would devote fewer resources to sniffing out immigrant lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who are married to U.S. citizens. Now, prompted by Democratic lawmakers, DHS is being asked to put that policy into official regulations, …

A student won a $4.5 million civil lawsuit against a former state attorney who defamed him online, followed him and his friends and showed up at his home several times. Back in 2010, after Chris Armstrong became the first openly gay student body president at the University of Michigan, a website called “Chris Armstrong Watch” popped up online. It turns out Andrew Shirvell, a state assistant attorney general and University of Michigan alum, had a problem with Armstrong and started …

Mother awarded $24 million for child’s botched surgery A mother whose toddler suffered irreversible brain damage won a $24.2 million jury award against the clinic and the company that made an infusion pump that malfunctioned during surgery on the child. Ty’Kevion Kidd was 3 years-old when he underwent surgery to fix a congenital heart defect. A pump used to deliver the hormone epinephrine during the surgery  failed, causing the boy to go into cardiac arrest. His mother, Tyronglia Willis, sued …

Same-sex couples who live in states that don’t recognize gay marriage or civil unions are out of luck when it comes to estate taxes, facing much higher rates when one partner passes away than do their peers who are legally married. The discriminatory nature of tax laws was illustrated by a recent case in Pennsylvania, where Marie Himmelberger’s longtime partner Sharon Warnock passed away in 2010. Himmelberger and Warnock were in fact legally joined in New Jersey after a 2007 …