SF Politics Ballot Measure Prop 3 Hopes to ‘Trump-Proof' Same-Sex Marriage In California, No Matter What US Supreme Court Does At least one US Supreme Court justice is on the record as wanting to overturn the landmark same-sex marriage decision, so California voters will consider Prop 3 in November, which would enshrine gay marriage into the state constitution.
SF News Today Marks 20 Years Since Gavin Newsom Opened San Francisco City Hall For Same-Sex Marriages It was two days before Valentine's Day in 2004 that then-Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to press on the culture-war scales a bit and allow gay and lesbian couples to marry at San Francisco City Hall, marriage certificates and all.
SF News SF's Anti-Gay Archbishop Not Likely to Be Giving Blessings to Same-Sex Couples Anytime Soon After Pope Francis issued a new declaration Monday that same-sex couples could receive blessings from Catholic priests and bishops, San Francisco's notoriously conservative archbishop Salvatore Cordileone issued his own terse response.
SF Politics Clarence Thomas Openly Admits He's Dying For the Supreme Court to Overturn Gay Marriage Decision Justice Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in the Mississippi case that overturns Roe v. Wade suggesting that other precedents concerning same-sex marriage, sodomy, and contraception also now should be "reconsidered."
SF Politics Jim Obergefell, Plaintiff Who Got Same-Sex Marriage Legalized, Running for Office in Ohio and Fundraising in SF The lead plaintiff in the landmark 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage is running for the Ohio state house, and coming to San Francisco for a campaign fundraiser Wednesday night.
SF News Bigoted Oregon Bakery Owners Finally Pay Up For Refusing Lesbian Couple Service The once-proprietors of an Oregon bakery who made headlines two years ago when they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple have finally coughed up the fine they were court-ordered
SF News Bay Area Woman Becomes First Openly Gay Servicewoman Killed In Combat, In Afghanistan News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
SF News [Update] Utah Judge Takes Foster Child Away From Lesbian Couple In Favor Of Heterosexual Couple, Citing Science A ruling Tuesday in a Utah court indicates just how much further we have to go, in various parts of the country, when it comes to LGBT equality. Judge Scott Johansen ruled that
SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
Arts & Entertainment Catholic Group 'Speaks From The Heart' Against Gay Marriage, Internet Mocks Them A conservative group called Catholic Vote gave the internet a gift last week in the form of a black-and-white YouTube video in which a group of well meaning Catholics all speak cryptically about
SF News How The Castro Celebrated National Marriage Equality Castro Street was closed on schedule at 5 p.m., CNN had a live feed on the rally stage, and SF's cohort of openly gay politicians all got up to speak Friday evening,
SF News The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
Arts & Entertainment Video: Lesbian Couple Goes Online Shopping For Sperm If this video is any indication, the process by which lesbian parents conceive is a long, arduous process. Haley Jude a.k.a. Queer Mama has been vlogging her pregnancy, and one charming
SF News Giants Join Legal Brief Urging SCOTUS To Legalize Gay Marriage Well this is fun. The Giants have joined in legal brief along with the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Rays urging the Supreme Court to overturn all remaining state gay marriage
SF News This Week Marks The 11th Anniversary Of Gay Marriage In SF While the Supreme Court is hinting that the time has finally come this year for nationwide, federally sanctioned same-sex marriage, the whole idea is yesterday's news for the Bay Area. Literally. Yesterday, February
SF News According To Justice Thomas, SCOTUS Just Admitted They're Ruling In Favor Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage We're still likely months away from a final ruling from the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage nationwide only two short years after the landmark decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in
SF News Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Bans, Setting Stage For Another SCOTUS Decision Bucking the trend of every other federal appeals court in the country thus far, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a much-anticipated decision upholding gay marriage bans in the four states
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans In Idaho and Nevada As predicted yesterday following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any of the same-sex marriage challenges before them, two more states have seen their same-sex marriage bans fall at the hands of
SF News Facebook Donated $10K To Anti-Gay Candidate In Utah The political-lobbying arm of Facebook recently made a cash donation of $10,000 to anti-gay-marriage Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes's re-election campaign, sparking some fury in the LGBT community. Reyes is currently fighting
SF News Here's What The Archbishop Said At That Anti-Gay Marriage Rally Today; Also, S.F. Church Giving Away Free Weddings Today in D.C., San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone took part in a march organized by the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay group that does everything in its rhetorical power to
SF News S.F.'s Catholic Archbishop Defends His Choice To Attend Anti-Gay-Marriage Rally Catholic archbishop and occasional drunk driver Salvatore Cordileone has written an open letter in response to the open letter sent to him last week by Mayor Lee, Gavin Newsom and dozens of others
SF News OKCupid Asks Users To Boycott Firefox Over Anti-Gay CEO It might be time to finally download Chrome, folks. Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, has come under fire after it was revealed he donated to Proposition 8, California's (overturned) gay-marriage ban. And with
SF News Chris Kluwe Says He Was Fired Because Of 'Bigot' Football Coach's Views On Gay Marriage Last May, Minnesota Vikings punter and outspoken gay marriage advocate Chris Kluwe was released from his contract with the team for what his superiors say were reasons "based on his football performance." Today,
SF News CA Supreme Court Rejects Petition To Reinstate Prop 8 Well, it's done. After twice denying petitions by the backers of Prop 8 to put an immediate halt to gay marriages in California, the state Supreme Court today also denied their petition for
SF News San Diego Clerk Withdraws His Prop 8 Appeal One of two lawsuits pending for review by the California Supreme Court that are attempting to reinstate Prop 8 is being withdrawn. The suit, filed last month by San Diego County Clerk Ernest
