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Gay American Deviance : Using International Comparative Analysis to Argue for a Free Speech and Establishment Clause Approach to Furthering Gay Marriage in the United States

Shah, Bijal - 2021

This article puts comparative and constitutional law scholarship into dialogue to show how LGBT Americans are fundamentally different from queer individuals and communities elsewhere in the world. Abroad, many queer groups are advocating for “status”-based rights to vote, legal employment,...

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Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Parents in the Wake of Gay Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships

Forman, Deborah L. - 2021

This Article examines the parental rights of a same-sex partner/ spouse who is neither biologically related to, nor an adoptive parent of, a child being raised by the couple. Using a hypothetical example of a same-sex couple with one child, this Article explores whether the parental rights...

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Marriage Equality, Workplace Inequality : The Next Gay Rights Battle

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2021

Same-sex marriage is not the only civil rights issue impacting the gay community. Although the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges represented a momentous victory on same-sex marriage, workplace protections affect far more people and remain a high priority for many lesbians and gay...

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Glorious Precedents : When Gay Marriage Was Radical

Boucai, Michael - 2021

, Jones, and Singer lawsuits deployed marriage’s symbolic cachet to proclaim homosexuality’s equality, legal and moral, in a …

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Measuring the Effect of Sexual Orientation on Income : Evidence of Discrimination?

Berg, Nathan; Lien, Donald D. - 2021

The effect of nonheterosexuality on individual income is estimated using 1991-1996 General Social Survey data. Other researchers have concluded that homosexuals earn less than similarly qualified workers, in contrast to the popular perception that homosexuals are more affluent than...

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En/Gendering Equality : Seeking Relief Under Title Vii Against Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation

Varona, Anthony E.; Monks, Jeffrey - 2021

homosexuality violates gender norms, lesbians and gay men face discrimination that usually takes the form of sex stereotyping or … perceived homosexuality of the plaintiffs as disqualifying them from Title VII relief. Although gender nonconformity standing … alone can garner Title VII relief, it typically is not protected when combined with perceived or actual homosexuality. The …

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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Hiring

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2021

Little research has been done to examine discrimination against gays and lesbians in the labor market. Badgett (1995) was the first to investigate labor market outcomes of gays and lesbians using a random data set. While her results suggested lower earnings for lesbians compared to heterosexual...

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Sexual Orientation and Self-Reported Lying

Berg, Nathan; Lien, Donald D. - 2021

This paper examines empirical links between sexual orientation and self-reported lying using data collected in several waves of Georgia Institute of Technology’s World Wide Web Users Survey. The data include questions about sexual orientation, lying in cyberspace, and a broad range of...

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Equality Rights and Sexual Orientation : Confronting Heterosexual Family Privilege

Ryder, Bruce - 2021

Heterosexual married couples are supported by a wide array of legal privileges, benefits, rights and powers. Recently, these legal advantages - which include, but are not limited to, economic support such as tax and pension benefits - have been extended in some areas of Canadian law to unmarried...

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What Drives the Gender Gap? An Analysis Using Sexual Orientation

Montag, Josef - 2021

Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this concern to be addressed. This paper argues that gays and...

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