The gays (AKA the GLBTQQ[Q?] community) received a well-deserved tax break today - one afforded to heterosexual married couples for years. Domestic partners in the Golden State won the right yesterday to have the same property tax breaks as male-female couples do under state law, when they a loved ones dies. According to the Gate: Domestic partners were granted the same rights under state Board of Equalization rules in 2003 and by a state......

Breaking homosexual news! According to Equality California, Arnold has requested that gay leaders meet with him next week to discuss several issues, including the marriage bill. Backers of AB 849 delayed sending it to the governor for his promised veto, hoping that their constituents would flood his office with messages of support for marriage equality -- maybe it worked? Who knows. Anyway, we're sure Arnold's looking forward meeting with gays, since, you know, rumor......

From the genius who popularized the Hummer came two separate gubernatorial bitch slaps yesterday: first, he vetoed AB 866, which would have added "sexual orientation" to attributes (such as age or race) in a voluntary pledge that allows politicians the option of stating that they won't permit appeals based on negative stereotypes in their political campaigns. Despite having successfully existed for some time, the pledge was declared by Arnold to be "unenforceable" (um, yes,......

Well just look at that big goofy smile on Mark Leno! He's had a good day today, and so have all of California's queers. (And who, in this state, isn't just a little queer in one sense or another?) Assembly Bill 849, which would grant marriage equality to same-sex couples, passed its last hurdle to being considered by the state senate. Although a similar bill lost by five votes a few months ago, this......

Hey, remember how we were just babbling about how Equality California gets stuff done for gay Californians, while The Human Rights Campaign mostly sits around hosting overpriced tea parties? Yeah, well, EqCa just announced that The California State Conference of the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League are supporting equal marriage rights here in CA. That'll make a huge difference later this month, when the state assembly considers AB 19. The Religious Freedom and Civil......

Would you like to come over to our place for dinner? You would? Hey, that's great. It'll be $195 per head, please. The Human Rights Campaign, one of America's most strident gay-civil-rights orgs, cordially invites you to lay down $195 (or just $125 with student ID -- those lucky kids, what a steal!) for the "HRC Gala Dinner Kick-Off Event," (or HGDKOE) April 20th at 6:30 P.M. at the Clift Hotel (with rooms starting......

As everyone knows, gays and lesbians spend their free time seducing children with tales of cross-dressing necrophiles. But for the first time ever, they'll be taking a break from all that on Sunday, the 23rd, for a day-long series of seminars on gay marriage'n'stuff. It's free, it's local (near Civic Center), there'll be great speakers like the always-gregarious Mark Leno, they'll cover topics like building support for marriage and why anyone cares about marriage anyway,......

This New Year's, there'll be plenty to celebrate: for example, the right to own real estate as community property or as community property with the right of survivorship. Wait, what? Luckily, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Equality California are here to spell it out for us: Starting on the first day of 2005, domestic partners (or as we like to call them, "couples") will enjoy a basketfull of new rights and responsibilities......

The Chronicle reported last week that a dozen same-sex couples have filed suit against the state for the right to marry. The plaintiffs cite language from a 1948 California Supreme Court ruling that affirms the "freedom to join in marriage with the person of one's choice," in a case that deals with racial barriers as opposed to sexual orientation. SFist wishes the plaintiffs great success at tearing down one of the most noxious legal forms......