Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Arts Groups, Nonprofits Hit Hard by Sudden NEA and AmeriCorps Cuts Many Bay Area arts and nonprofit organizations are facing sudden federal funding cuts from the NEA and AmeriCorps, forcing urgent budget changes and putting key creative and community programs at risk.
SF News Pentagon to Say OK to Gays In Military Tomorrow Speaking of gay things, the breaking news this afternoon is that defense department officials are planning to certify, on Friday, the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. The WSJ reports that they'll be
SF News "Loving" and the Fight for Marriage Equality [Updated] Here's a little taste of the Proposition 8 hearing coming up on Monday in San Francisco -- high-power attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies (conservative and liberal, respectively) just released a video about
SF News Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW "Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW," said Kate Kendall (Exective Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and one of the architects of the No On Prop 8
SF News Prop 8's Forced-Divorces Will Break Our Hearts "Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo. We dare you to watch the Courage Campaign's Fidelity video and not get all weepy. We were able to keep it together until it got
Arts & Entertainment March in the Chinese New Year Parade with API Equality There's a lot to love about SF's fantastic Chinese New Year parade -- and a lot of love the parade as well. Marching for the fifth time in a row this year is
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
SF News Post-Mortem on Last Night's Prop 8 Post-Mortem Last night's Marriage Equality Community Forum was neat! It started with a brief hello from former New Paltz mayor Jason West. We tried to get a picture, but as you can see, he
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 HA HA HA Thousands of Gays Killed in the Holocaust HO HO HO HA HA HA HA The people pushing Prop 8 have their heads so far up their asses they've turned into mobius strips. This is what you're fighting when you fight Prop 8: a video that connects gay
misc Prop 8 Weirdos Send Weird Letter Containing Weirdness Here's what happened: Abbot & Associates, a realty company in San Diego, gave a generous chunk of change to the No On 8 campaign. (You should, too.) And then the Yes On 8
misc Donations to Yes-On-8 are Accidentally Going to Tasteful Gay Erotica Update: Complaints about the content of ads can be sent to Google here. The "people" behind Prop 8 -- the anti-marriage amendment -- may or may not be up to something sneaky. We
misc Princess Gloves Come off in No On 8 Fight The letter does not appear to be available online in text format -- only as a PDF that's missing its extension. So we've had to transcribe the good bits. "The advertisement strongly implies
misc Prop 8 Numbers Flip: Now the Marriage Ban is Winning Leah and Barb from Stop8.org on Vimeo. This news is, of course, insane, but a new poll indicates that Prop 8 is pulling ahead. If it wins, then a group of Utah
misc Foreigners Attempting to Seize Control of California Constitution Prop 8 would stop healthy, committed couples from marrying, and it sucks. Fortunately, everyone knows that it sucks -- its opponents include the Governor, various mayors, elected judges, school boards, Democrats and Republicans,
