Last week, the announcement from the City of Kalamazoo that it would end its non-union domestic partner benefits program, cracked open the flood gates. Soon after, Ann Arbor Public Schools and ...

LANSING – The first hearing in National Pride at Work v. Granholm, the suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT Project to protect domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian state ...

Domestic partner benefits are benefits that an employer voluntarily offers to an employee’s unmarried partner. An employee’s domestic partner may be of the same sex or the opposite sex. An employer ...

Several state officials and students expressed support for the LGBT community last week after Gov. Jan Brewer requested the supreme court hear a case regarding the constitutionality of an Arizona law ...

Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law on Sept. 4 that redefined dependent status for state employees, stripping 170 domestic partners at the UA of their state health care benefits. The bill, H.B.

The Moorhead City Council passed a resolution Monday supporting state legislation that would allow local governments to provide benefits to their employees' domestic partners even if they aren't a ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Buncombe County, N.C., commissioners voted 4-3 on Tuesday to begin offering health and other benefits to the same-sex partners of county employees. The mountain county, home to the ...

PHOENIX – Arizona is close to joining more than a dozen states that offer health and other benefits to domestic partners of state employees, gay or straight. The change would apply to the 65,000 ...

I am excited that newly elected Asheville City Council members will have an opportunity to make good on their campaign-trail promises at the Feb. 9 Council session as they address domestic-partner ...

Nearly a month after voting down the measure, the Baltimore County school board approved domestic-partner benefits for school employees Tuesday night. The change of heart came during continued ...

DETROIT (AP) – A federal judge on Friday blocked Michigan’s ban on domestic partner benefits for employees who work for public schools or local governments, saying state lawmakers simply wanted to ...

California's highest court ruled Monday that country clubs must offer gay members who register as domestic partners the same discounts given to married ones, a decision that could apply to other ...