Entries from SFist tagged with 'samesex'
June 20, 2008
All good things must come to an end, so until the first California gay divorce happens, here is your last same-sex wedding post. (Probably.) And it's only natural that the final post should involve Tila Tequila (nee Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen) and her tireless, tenacious crusade against human rights abuses. Regarding her MTV reality show "Shot At Love" and how it jump started gay marriage, this harrowing excuse for a human being told Access......
Continue Reading "Behold Your Final Gay Marriage Post, Starring Tila Tequila"June 18, 2008
Aw. Well, this is just downright sweet. And smart. You see, Cafe de la Paz, which has received a three-star rating by the Yelp mafia, is throwing a contest for Kern County queer couples only. The nuevo Latino and tapas restaurant is inviting Kern County to win a marriage ceremony and a small reception dinner at the Berkeley restaurant. Russell Bass, owner of Berkeley's Cafe de la Paz, will run an ad in the......
Continue Reading "Cafe de la Paz Runs Contest for Hungry, Amorous Kern County Same-Sex Couples"June 17, 2008
This has to be the most adorable image we've seen thus far during today's queer marriage melee. Really, how can you hate these people? Oh, you think you have cuter, do you? Well, send it to us here.......
Continue Reading "Scene from a Same-Sex Wedding Ceremony"June 16, 2008
Same-sex wedding sympathizers SF Weekly points out this ad many of you have seen around town as of late. They also point out that gay marriage in San Francisco = cash, serious coinage, and treasure chests full of diamonds, pearls, and rubies for each and every citizen! We couldn't be happier. Money is power, folks. And SF is about to feel loads of it splatter against its backside when scores of queers come here......
Continue Reading "There's Just No Way of Getting Around Gay Marriage Posts Today"June 16, 2008
As we already mentioned, the tenacious and curmudgeon-y Fred Phelps will be over at City Hall this afternoon, doing some sort of performance art piece or something. Needless to say, we're very excited. What we didn't mention were the many people contacting SFist to let us know that we should not write about Phelps' fag fury. That somehow this will make him -- and more importantly, those who think like him -- go away.......
Continue Reading "Speaking of God Hating Fags..."June 16, 2008
Much to the chagrin of social conservatives, a smattering of local progressives, aging hipster homosexuals clinging to their punk-rock status, and the Reverend Fred Phelps (who will be appearing on the steps of City Hall today from 4 - 6:30 p.m., by the way), legal same-sex weddings will take place today. Please do not throw ignited bags of canine fecal matter at him. While the first and only gay marriage will happen tonight in......
Continue Reading "Gay Marriage to Commence Soon, Very Soon"June 12, 2008
Dennis Herrera blasted the oddly-titled Campaign for California Families today for their latest, useless court of appeal tactic to get the gays to stop all of this damn marriage nonsense. The CCF, it seems, filed with the California Court of Appeal another benign motion to stay the California Supreme Court's May 15 decision to let the queers wed. City Attorney Dennis Herrera had this to say: "I am not aware of a process in......
Continue Reading "Your Gay Marriage Update: Herrera None Too Pleased"June 10, 2008
The Sapphic set will be the first to get legally married (and, believe us, the first to get legal divorce after divorce after divorce) in San Francisco. Longtime queer activists Del Martin (87) and Phyllis Lyon (84), who were first wed in San Francisco in 2004, will re-enact their ceremony as soon as gay marriage becomes legal in California at 5 p.m. on June 16. Gavin Newsom will, once again, officiate their ceremony. But......
Continue Reading "Lesbians to Kickoff Same-Sex Weddings"June 4, 2008
The 10 attorneys general who has asked the California Supreme Court for a delay in their decision to let the gay marry until after November has been denied. CBS 5 announces that "the California Supreme Court has denied a request to stay its decision legalizing gay marriage." It was shot down in a 4-3 vote. Now, couples of the same sex can get married n June 17, after the order becomes finalized on June......
Continue Reading "California Supreme Court Denies Gay Marriage Ruling Delay"June 3, 2008
Hold on there, June brides. The Secretary of State announced yesterday that an initiative to re-ban same-sex marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot. Uh oh. The California Marriage Protection Act needed 694,354 petition signatures to get on the ballot. It 1,120,801 signatures in April. The measure, it seems, would like to protect the sacred institution of marriage. The ban on same-sex marriage, if you recall, was overturned by the California Supreme......
Continue Reading "Gay Marriage Ban Initiative to Show Up On California Ballot?"June 2, 2008
No. 25 is alive. Again. [WhatImSeeing]"OMGROFL" [Jameth]Breaking news: Danielle Steel's "glazed" Stinson Beach home for sale. [Curbed]Anti-gay marriage measure qualifies for November ballot. How creepy. [Sacbee]Perfect for all you purgers out there: French fry coated bacon on a stick. [CHOW, via Last Appetite] Photo by WhatImSeeing......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"May 30, 2008
We’ll admit, we’ve been aloof to the A’s and this season’s American League West proceedings, what with the Athletics getting ready to juke their hometown for Fremont. But oh baby, do we have a new reason to root for the A’s to engage in some serious divisional ass-whooping. ...
Continue Reading "A's Division Rivals Outlaw Same-Sex Smooching"May 28, 2008
it seems like every other hour there's a new same-sex marriage angle on the local news. Today, we have two big homosexual wedded bliss items that Gay Town is eating up. (Oh wait, our mistake -- THIS is Gay town.) First, a fresh new poll now finds that a small majority of Californians now believe same-sex couples should be able to marry....
Continue Reading "Gay Marriage: Shoved Down Your Hot Throat?"May 25, 2008
It seems every queer we've ever come across in our lifetime has clogged your Editor's inbox this weekend with the following urgent request to call Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It seems we need to vocalize our support (again) for same-sex marriage. Why? Because the National Back of the Bus Organization have been calling the Gov in droves to voice their hysterical Elizabeth Hasselbeckness over the ruling. And we need you to tell him otherwise (and......
Continue Reading "Call Arnold To Tell Him You Totally Support Gay Marriage, Or Else"May 16, 2008
While his Holiness is more or less meh when it comes to non-consensual sex between a man and a boy, same-sex marriage just ain't cool in his book. So stop, says Pope Benedict. While not directly referencing yesterday's California Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, the Pope spoke to family values groups in Europe (white trash chic!) yesterday, saying: The union of love, based on matrimony between a man and a woman, which makes......
Continue Reading "Breaking News: Pope Still Against Queers Getting Married"May 15, 2008
Heads have been exploding throughout California ever since this morning's delightful news about same-sex marriage was announced. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, in particular, is beaming--at least according to a press released sent out an hour after the ruling was announced. "I am profoundly grateful, not only for a decision that will end marriage discrimination for gay and lesbian partners in California, but for the Court's eloquence in stating its conclusion," said Herrera. "Our democratic......
Continue Reading "Dennis Herrera Loves Him Some Gay Marriage, But What About You?"May 15, 2008
According to ABC 7--who just mercifully brought The View to a screeching halt to inform viewers--the California State Supreme Court struck down the gay marriage ban. So: same-sex marriage is now legal, at least according to the California Supreme Court. ...
Continue Reading "Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban: California Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage"