SF News Video: Watch Nancy Pelosi Dancing at Barney Frank's Gay Wedding House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cut a rug over the weekend at the wedding of Barney Frank and Jim Ready in Newton, Massachusetts. Here she is dancing with co-Best Man Terry Bean, the
SF News After Gay Co-Founder Gets Hitched, Facebook Adds Adorable Same-Sex Marriage Icons To Timeline Blessed be the July 4th week news dump. Let's see, so far we've got TomKat and aliens, Anderson Cooper (finally!) coming out as gay, and now we have news that the fine folks
SF News 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
SF News State's Gay Marriage Ban Likely To Go To U.S. Supreme Court The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional earlier this year, issued a brief today stating the court would not be revisiting the earlier ruling on the same-sex marriage ban.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Gay Marriage Expertly Compared To Sushi Social psychologist and morality expert Jonathan Haidt recently gave a talk before the American Enterprise Institute during which he was asked by writer and gay rights activist Jonathan Rauch how attitudes towards same-sex
SF News Obama's 'Gaylo' Newsweek Cover Explained James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln notwithstanding, Newsweek has officially (and somewhat confusingly) declared openly straight Barack Obama the first gay president after last week's historic announcement on gay marriage. More of an ode
SF News Lesbian Arrested After Seeking Marriage License In North Carolina Mary Jamis, 52, a lesbian who attempted to obtain a marriage license in North Carolina on Thursday, was arrested along with a heterosexual friend for refusing to leave a government office. Several other
SF News 'He Let Go Of Fear': Reaction To Obama Evolved Stance On Gay Marriage In light of this week's announcement that Barack Obama supports gay marriage, making him the first-ever sitting U.S. President to make such a profound statement, response to the news has been mostly
SF News Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert React To Obama's Gay Marriage Evolution We imagine many of you were waiting to see how The Daily Show and The Colbert Report reacted to President Obama's historic endorsement of gay marriage yesterday. Well, in case you missed them,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ben & Jerry's UK Launches 'Apple-y Ever After' For Gay Marriage Equality While Ben & Jerry's Taste The Lin-Sanity hit a mildly sour note upon its release — it initially featured fortune cookie bits, which offended some since Jeremy Lin was born here in 'Merica, so
SF News Watch Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen Headline Gay Marriage Play [Video] Heterosexual actors like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, Jaime Lee Curtis, and Martin Sheen and gay actors like Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Matthew Morrison came together over the weekend to
SF News Gay Texas Judge Refuses To Wed Straight Couples A Texas judge made her staunch stance on gay marriage publicly known on Tuesday, and her position might surprise you. Judge Tonya Parker of Dallas County made the bold decision to no longer
SF News Why Prop 8 Probably Shouldn't Get To The Supreme Court A very concise and cogent "Sidebar" article in the NYT today does an excellent job of explaining the arguments that many gay rights advocates have against taking the Prop 8 challenge as far
SF News Gay Marriage Advocates Show Up At City Hall, Sing, Get Arrested A group of about 30 same-sex marriage advocates, organized by Marriage Equality USA, showed up this Valentine's Day at City Hall, accompanied by the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus, and at least a dozen
SF News Washington State Signs Gay Marriage Bill Into Law; Marriages Might Begin in June After winning approval from both the Washington state House and Senate in recent weeks, a historic piece of gay-marriage legislation went before Washington governor Chris Gregoire today for her signature. Signing the bill
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional The Ninth Circuit Court ruled today that, similar to a 2010 ruling by a lower court, Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, is unconstitutional. The panel of judges sided with Judge Vaughn Walker's
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Ruling On Prop 8 Expected Tomorrow Morning Gay marriage supporters and anyone with an ounce of common sense and normal human decency are expecting another major turning point in the fight to overturn Proposition 8 tomorrow morning. The decision on
SF News 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
SF News Prop 8 Returns To 9th Circuit This Afternoon So, yeah. Prop 8. It's still being kicked back and forth around the courts like a bullied gay child on an unfriendly playground, and today it goes back to the Ninth Circuit Court
SF News CA Supreme Court to Issue Procedural Ruling Tomorrow in Prop 8 Case The California Supreme Court has announced that at 10 a.m. Thursday (tomorrow), they'll be issuing a ruling regarding the standing of the assorted plaintiffs in the appeal to uphold Prop 8. The
SF News Dennis Herrera's Kid Wrote a Letter to Obama About Gay Marriage Mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera's kid, Declan, wrote a letter to President Obama about the importance of making same-sex marriage legal. And it's totally cute! And sweet. And wildly accurate. It reads: "I think
SF News Judges Inclined to Allow Prop 8 Appeal to Move Forward Today was another big day in court for the backers of Prop 8, who remain unhappy that federal judge Vaughn Walker did not agree with their view that homosexual marriage constitutes a horrible,
SF News Prop 8 Update: Judge May Allow Recording at August 29 Hearing In what could be a minor blow to the cause of gay-marriage haters, U.S. District Chief Judge James Ware has notified lawyers in the ongoing Prop 8 battle that he'd like to
Arts & Entertainment Dan Savage Makes Stephen Colbert Break Character Sex advice columnist and It Gets Better founder Dan Savage stopped by The Cobert Report last night to discuss monogamy in marriage. Profiled in the New York Times recently, he "argued that sometimes
Arts & Entertainment In More NY Gay Marriage Sweetness: Gothamist Writer Proposes, Gets a Yes This is probably one of the sweetest things we've seen in our lives. On the morning after a euphoric night of celebrating the New York State Senate's decision to legalize same-sex marriage, contributor
