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This Anti-Gay Campaign's New Logo & Slogan Are Pretty Gay

In reaction to Wednesday's Supreme Court rulings on Prop. 8 and DOMA, conservative Christian hate group Family Research Council announced a new prayer-based campaign in which members promised to get "on our knees

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Tonight: Your Gay Marriage Parties Around The Bay Area

Now that DOMA has been ruled unconstitutional, and gay marriage is once again legal in the state of California, it's time to party (or at least attend a rally while sporting your finest

Scalia Contradicts Himself On Respect For Congress In DOMA Dissent

Though not reportedly as angry as he was delivering his dissent from the bench ten years ago in Lawrence v. Kansas, the case that struck down all extant anti-sodomy laws in the country,

Pelosi To Bachmann On God And Gay Marriage: 'Who Cares?'

Here everyone is our own Nancy Pelosi responding to Rep. Michele Bachmann's comments today that the Supreme Court decisions don't undo "God's word." Watch and enjoy. She shrugs and mutters, "Who cares?" The

Photos: Scenes From San Francisco As Prop 8 Falls

Wednesday morning at City Hall, a crowd of same sex marriage supporters, partners, parents, families and San Francisco dignitaries gathered to mark the Supreme Court's decision to declare DOMA unconstitutional and the return

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Google Honors Rulings With Gay Flair [Update]

In honor of DOMA's defeat and the re-legalization of gay marriage in the state of California, Google gave their search bar a 3D rainbow makeover. (Granted, it's not on the main Google page,

BREAKING: DOMA Declared Unconstitutional By SCOTUS [Update]

DOMA declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS in a 5-4 ruling. The court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act "is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by

S.F. City Hall Prepares For Prop 8 SCOTUS Ruling

After years of debate, protest, rulings, rambling and handwringing, today the Supreme Court of the United States makes their decision on Proposition 8, California's voter-approves same-sex marriage ban, and DOMA. Those for and

Prop 8 And DOMA Decisions To Come Down Wednesday; Castro, City Hall Events Planned

We thought it might be Thursday, but SCOTUS is in fact planning to close up shop a day early for their summer recess, and the final big decisions of the term are to

Video: What It Looked Like Exiting the Supreme Court Today

Former SFister Matt Baume was in DC and got to breeze through today's Supreme Court hearings on the DOMA case, a.k.a. United States v. Windsor. He took some cell phone video

Supreme Court '80% Likely' To Strike Down Defense Of Marriage Act

Round two of the Supreme Court's discussion of same-sex marriage this week finds the highest court in the land debating the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, one of the more questionable

Supreme Court Likely To Dismiss Prop 8 Case, Allow Same-Sex Marriages In California

In Washington, D.C. this morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from opponents and defenders of California's same-sex marriage ban. The purpose of this morning's hearing was to simply to decide whether

Tonight: Major Marriage Equality Rally In The Castro

Tomorrow and Wednesday represent a milestone moment for gay rights as the U.S. Supreme Court will review the Prop 8 and DOMA cases to determine the status of marriage equality nationwide. Tonight,

Career Suicide: Venues Cancel Upcoming Michelle Shocked Tour Dates

After launching into an anti-gay tirade onstage at Yoshi's in San Francisco Sunday night, alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked unleashed a torrent of backlash that looks like an apparent career suicide. The fallout of

Supreme Court Sets Dates for Prop 8 and DOMA Hearings

As we learned last month, somewhat anxiously, the Supreme Court will be hearing and likely issuing rulings on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in their current

Prop 8, DOMA Cases Go Before Supreme Court On Friday

In the ongoing legal battle between people who just want to marry each other and people who have an antiquated definition of marriage, the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether

Justice Ginsburg Believes DOMA Will Go Before Supreme Court In The Next Year

Speaking to a law school conference at the University of Colorado in Boulder yesterday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted the Defense of Marriage Act will land in front of the U.S. Supreme

Democratic National Committee Will Officially Support Gay Marriage

For the first time ever, the Democratic party are set to include a official, party-wide pro-gay marriage stance in their platform at their national convention in September. As sources inside the party told

9th Circuit Delays Plans to Hear DOMA Case, May Defer to Supreme Court

In a brief order issued today, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to hear a case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act as planned in September. The decision to delay hearing

Pelosi, House Dems Take A Shot At Boehner's DOMA Defense

Since John Boehner seems to be the only person left willing to stick up for the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the recently gay-married Barney Frank and 130 other House

One Of These Ladies Had To Die So A Federal Court Could Rule DOMA Unconstitutional

Yesterday, a Federal Court in New York confirmed what we've heard confirmed repeatedly this year: The Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The New York court became the fifth federal court to rule

DOMA Is Still Unconstitutional, Rules Federal Appeals Court

In a unanimous ruling at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston Thursday, a three-judge panel again declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and discriminatory against gay couples. The

S.F. Gay Couple Make Plea To Prevent One Partner's Deportation

San Francisco couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia have been together over a decade, after meeting in the Castro on Halloween (remember when they had that?). Recently, Alfonso was detained and thrown in

Gay Bi-National S.F. Couple Wins Deportation Reprieve

Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, a married gay San Francisco couple who were almost forced to split up last fall due to the threat of Makk's looming deportation, will be able to

Boehner Will Defend DOMA by Letting the Courts Decide Constitutionality

Just two weeks after Obama's Department of Justice declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, the House Speaker with the snickering last name announced he's calling a meeting of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory