SF News Everything You Need to Know About Prop 8 in Just a Few Minutes After the Prop-8-ruling-false-alarm blip last week -- smack dab in the middle of Thursday's Mehserle verdict, prompting all sorts of knee-jerk-ishness -- Matt Baume decided to make a quick recap of the last
SF News Closing Arguments for Prop 8 Trial Start Today Inside a San Francisco courtroom today, and after hearing 12 days of testimony in January, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will hear closing arguments in the historic Proposition 8 case over the
SF News Kiss-In at Harvey Milk Plaza on Monday Anything and everything but kissing on the lips, you say? We hear that. But, come next Monday, you might change your tune. SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi brings word that the Castro will play
SF News ACLU Will Appeal Order In Prop 8 Campaign Doc Challenge Yesterday, if you recall, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Prop 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage.
SF News Prop 8 Trial Begins Today, Supreme Court Blocks YouTube Broadcast At 9 a.m. today, the first federal trial to see "if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage" starts in San Francisco. The trial is expected to last anywhere
SF News Camera Allowed At Prop 8 Hearing, Says Federal Judge U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that he will allow cameras to broadcast next week's lawsuit that challenges California's vile same-sex marriage ban. While broadcasting federal trials used to be verboten,
SF News New York State Senate Shoots Down Gay Marriage After a long debate this morning, the New York State Senate voted 38-24 against a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Openly gay State Senator Thomas K. Duane of Manhattan said, "This legislation would
SF News House Passes Addition of Sexual Orientation to Hate Crimes Law The definition of the federal hate crimes law might finally get expanded to include sexual orientation, as the House of Representatives approved the bill yesterday, which was an attachment of the $680 billion
SF News Prop. 8 Protesters Block Intersection at Van Ness & Grove The intersection at "Grove and Van Ness [is] corked by 200 protesters, more coming from civic center," says Jim Herd who is live on the scene. Traffic is blocked as far as he
SF News Prop 8 Upheld, Rules California State Supreme Court As anticipated, the California State Supreme Court ruled to uphold prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban. That means that gay marriage in the state of California is still considered illegal, effectively stripping away
SF News Prop 8 Decision on Tuesday After much speculation this week, the California State Supreme Court will announce its official decision on Prop 8, the gay marriage ban, on Tuesday, May 26 Here's what will go down the day
SF News Openly Gay Student Wins Lawsuit Against Vallejo School District View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. NBC Bay Area reports that Rochelle Harrison, who has been openly gay since the age of thirteen, was ridiculed on a daily basis
misc Archival Footage of 1960 City Hall Protest Bobster1985 has a great collection of San Francisco archival footage. Here's a clip that shows a bit of San Francisco's progressive history during the Civil Rights Era. The full film can be seen
SF News New York Governor Introduces Gay Marriage Bill Take note, California: the Governor of New York introducing legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. "There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live in a
SF News D.C. Council Votes to Recognize Other States' Same-Sex Marriages Civil rights have really taken center stage today, yes? First, Vermont legalized gay marriage after Governor Jim Douglas vetoed it on Monday. (An aside: will there be some sort of Ben & Jerry's
SF News Yet Another Argument For Same Sex Marriage Sean Penn didn't shame you into compliance last night? When relentlessly sporting demographic analyst David Latterman weighed in on Nelson Minear's M4M project, his projections were hobbled -- nay, crippled by the paucity
SF News Branching out on Behalf of Gay Marriage: A Good Thing, Bad Thing, or Somewhere in Between? Just about everyone agrees: gays can win more support for civil equality by partering with ally-communities. This is a nice-sounding idea, particularly in the San Francisco bubble. But what does it mean --
SF News Prop 8 Backers Admit That They Don't Really Believe Their Own Arguments Oh this Prop 8 stuff just gets hairier and hairier. We were thumbing through some articles about the people who backed Prop 8; that includes groups like the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty,
misc Brave ABC Affiliate Protects Los Angeles from Televised Homosexual Menace Remember the other day, we told you about a bunch of new TV ads about how gay families can actually be pleasant and likable? Well, you'll be glad to hear that the spots
misc Get This On Television Now With this week's slew of court filings, the post-Prop-8 fight for civil equality is still hot hot hot. And even though some of the 15-minutes-of-fame organizers may be losing focus, the pros aren't
Arts & Entertainment UPDATED: Conversation About Prop 8 and Race at GLBT Center was Teeniest, Tiniest, Ever-So-Slightest Bit Productive Before we get to the nitty-gritty, we just want to make sure that everyone knows that tonight's Prop 8 town hall at the Veteran's Building has been postponed indefinitely. We'll let you know
misc A Small Christmas List by Evan James When some of us were still young boys but already chronic insomniacs, we began to demonstrate a talent for obsessive list making. While some precocious and intelligent children stayed up
SF News No, No Norteños Those who are subject to the preliminary injunction...can be arrested in the 60-square-block zone -- and face up to six months in jail -- if they engage in one of a number
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
SF News UPDATE: Miller Brewing Company Pulls Out Un-American group the Catholic League, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights sect, has called for a boycott of Miller Beer ever since The Last Supper got the parody treatment from the Folsom Street
