Iowa couples spent $12 million on same-sex marriages in 1st year
from the Quad City Times DES MOINES — Spending associated with weddings by couples of the same gender during the first year that same-sex marriages were legal in Iowa totaled at least $12 million and...
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Petitions supporting same-sex couple fight to place names on death certificate
from the Quad City Times March 28, 2012 9:34 pm • Mike Wiser (0) Comments Jenny, left, and Jessica Buntemeyer are suing the Iowa Department of Public Health for deleting Jenny’s name from a fetal...
View ArticleGoal: End bullying in Iowa schools
from the Quad City Times DES MOINES — Iowa school officials recorded about 1,000 more incidents of student bullying in the 2011-12 school year than the year before. But the data released by the Iowa...
View ArticlePoll shows plurality of Iowans support retaining justices
from The Quad City Times DES MOINES — Four Iowa Supreme Court justices up for a retention vote in the Nov. 6 election are on a path to keeping their seats on the state’s highest court, according to a...
View ArticleGay couple’s names can be on child’s birth certificate
from The Quad City Times. DES MOINES — Gay rights advocates say the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling Friday on the side of a lesbian couple from Des Moines should “shut the door” on any further legal...
View ArticleRally Wednesday celebrates marriage equality
Joe Gross was a “man of mixed emotions,” when his son, Greg, came out as a gay man in November 1999. He felt anger, embarrassment and confusion. He also felt love and “partial, grudging acceptance,”...
View ArticleGroup: IA officials stalling on birth certificates
The state’s largest gay advocacy group is accusing the Iowa Department of Public Health of needlessly delaying listing both partners in lesbian couples on their children’s birth certificates, despite...
View ArticleSocial Security begins paying claims for gay married couples
The federal government has begun paying Social Security spousal benefits for same-sex couples, but advocates for gays and lesbians in Iowa and Illinois say there still is widespread confusion over the...
View ArticleTelemedicine abortion hearing sparks quarrels
DES MOINES — Supporters of medication abortions and the members of the Iowa Board of Medicine quarreled during a contentious, half-day public hearing Wednesday over administrative rules that, if...
View ArticleIowa court upholds conviction of HIV-positive man
DES MOINES — Gay rights activists renewed their call on the Iowa Legislature to repeal a state law following an Iowa appellate court’s decision released Wednesday that upheld the conviction of an...
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