After her own ordeal, Becky looked for a way to help other families pay for adoption, but she found that all the organizations had criteria that restricted their grants to straight, married couples, specifically excluding gays and lesbians, as well as single straight people.
A: I did not, and I got an HHMI [Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant] straight out of the box, which was very rare at that point for assistant professor.
The two cases present variations on the same fundamental question: Is there any circumstance in which the state can deny gay people benefits that are granted to straight citizens?
A very small number of local authorities granted permission straight away, while a similarly small contingent immediately declined my request.
But according to the results of a Times survey of 1,831 Los Angeles County Superior Court sentencings in the summer of 1990, a grant of straight probation for a violent crime is rare.
If you are granted membership straight from the street, it's not particularly serious", Roberts sighs, "but we can never stop them.
In spite of lingering homophobia and a few very loud bigots, our country is moving toward a future in which gays and lesbians will have all the rights granted to straight Americans under the Constitution.
Had they granted licenses to gays, they would have violated a state statute defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman; had they continued to grant licenses to straight couples but refused to grant them to gays, they say, they would have been violating the State Constitution's protection of equal rights.
The measure would grant gay and straight couples the same rights and benefits the state provides to married couples.
He studied physics at Cambridge, but clocked up none of the social or romantic experiences most students take for granted, and graduated straight to a job with BP.
Theresa May has the power to grant these rights straight away and eliminate it from the negotiations, which are undoubtedly going to get nasty as time goes on.
