SF News 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
SF News Chief Justice John Roberts' Lesbian Cousin To Attend SCOTUS Hearings On Gay Marriage Chief Justice John Roberts has an openly lesbian cousin from San Francisco, 48-year-old Jean Podrasky, and she's in D.C. this week to sit in on the Supreme Court hearings on the Prop
SF News Michelle Shocked Launches Into Anti-Gay Rant On Stage at Yoshi's [Updated] Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked, who gained wide fame on college radio and MTV in the late 80s and early 90s but has more recently become a born-again Christian, literally shocked audiences on Sunday
SF News Bill Clinton Finally Admits DOMA Should Be Overturned Former President Bill Clinton has finally come out publicly against the Defense of Marriage Act, which he signed into law in 1996. As he puts it in a Washington Post editorial today, "it
SF News Obama Takes Strong Stand for Gay Marriage, Files Amicus Brief in Prop 8 Case President Obama and his administration today filed a pretty historic amicus brief outlining the ways in which California's Prop 8 violates the Constitution and equal protection. As the Sac Bee notes, "The declaration
SF News It's About Time: Prominent Republicans Change Tune On Gay Marriage Dozens of prominent Republicans, 75 and counting as of last night, have signed an amicus brief being filed with the Supreme Court in support of gay marriage, and the overturning of California's Proposition
SF News AP Decides 'Husband' And 'Wife' Only Applies To Straight Folks The Associated Press, whose stylebook is "the journalist's bible" used by writers and abused by bloggers the world over, issued a memo today clarifying when writers should use the terms "Husband" and "Wife"
SF News S.F. Archbishop Compares Gay Marriage To Male Breastfeeding Speaking of fools, San Francisco's favorite drunk driving man of God, archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, told an English Catholic newspaper that legalizing same-sex marriage is akin to male breastfeeding. In part of an interview
SF News 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
SF News Semper Fidelity: Marine Makes First Gay Marriage Proposal In The White House U.S. Marine Corps captain Matthew Phelps sparked the envy and ire of gay men across the country after proposing to his boyfriend, Ben Schock, in the White House on Saturday. This effectively
SF News Supreme Court Agrees to (Maybe) Rule on Prop 8 Case, One DOMA Case [Updated] In their conference today, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of California's Proposition 8, both its merits and whether or not the proponents had standing to appeal the federal court
SF News Supreme Court Says Nothing Yet With Regard to Gay Marriage Cases Once again, we're left waiting to hear if and how the Supreme Court is going to address the various legal challenges to gay marriage laws around the country. At their meeting today, though
SF News New SF Archbishop Speaks Out About Election, and the 'Redefinition of Marriage' Newly installed Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, would really like everyone to know how disappointed he is in America. The new gay marriage laws passed Tuesday in three states, and the
SF News Supreme Court Decision on Whether to Rule on Prop 8 Due Next Month So, if the Supreme Court decides, as we hope they will, that ruling on the California state-constitutionality of Prop 8 is not in their purview, then that would be that. The statewide ban
SF News Episcopal Bishop Barred From Archbishop Cordileone's Installation Marc Andrus, an Episcopal Bishop of California noteworthy for his public anti-Prop 8 stance, was not allowed to be seated at Thursday's installation of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, even though he was an invited
SF News 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Cancels Gay Wedding Dinner, Allegedly Blames Bad Feng Shui Setting aside the sadness of having one's wedding reception catered by an Asian-fusion restaurant, allow us to relay the tale of a gay wedding plan gone bad in New York City after the
SF News Gold's Gym Becomes Fitness SF Following 2010 Anti-Gay Donations As promised, Gold's Gym this week will become Fitness SF as its contract with the Gold's brand has just run out. Some of you may recall that in 2010, Gold's Gym members (the
SF News Horrendous Anti-Gay Attack Ad Enters New York Race [Updated] Featuring a pair of characteristically smooth twinks in various stages of love-making, a recent attack ad—one aimed at Sen. Mark Grisanti, a New York Republican who switched his vote in 2011 to
SF News Fake Married Couple in Super PAC Ad Mildly Disturbed By Gay Marriage Super PACs may have the funds to produce campaign ads about whatever they see fit, but there's no accounting for taste! Or art direction! Check out this hilariously mild, gauzy, and poorly acted
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. to Host Benefit Reading of Dustin Lance Black's Prop 8 Play '8' This fall, A.C.T. will be hosting the Bay Area premiere of Dustin Lance Black's play based on the 2010 Prop 8 trial in federal district court in San Francisco. The event
SF News 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
SF News God Hates Flacks? Chick-Fil-A Spokesman Dies Of Heart Attack Donald Perry, Vice President of Corporate Public Relations for Chick-Fil-A, has reportedly passed away this morning in Georgia due to a heart attack. Chick-Fil-A, we assume everyone knows at this point, has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor Ed Lee Comes Out Against Chick-fil-A; SF Doesn't Have Chick-fil-A San Franciso Mayor Pak Man came out against notorious anti-gay fast food chain Chick-fil-A on Thursday afternoon via Twitter. And good for him. The reportedly delicious fried chicken sandwich purveyors' unfortunate stance on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rick Santorum Spreads Chick-Fil-A Love With Subtle Gay Bashing Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum wormed his way back into the news the only way he knows how: with confusion and hate. After this week's news that the Jim Henson company parted
