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 Mexico City Assembly Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage Proving smarter and more forward-thinking than the state of California, Mexico City legalized same-sex marriage today. AP reports that it's the first city in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, "a change that
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 Support of Gay Marriage Closely Linked With Age Unless you're a godless whore who uses contempt for a group of people to make a cheap buck, most young people are in support of gay marriage. Which means, after most of the
SF News Photos: Last Night's Gay Marriage Rally Last year at this time, the gay community (and then some) lost their collective shit over the passing of Prop 8, a pro-discrimination measure that effectively pruned the rights of gay married couples.
SF News Maine Gay Marriage Repeal/Prop 8 Anniversary Rallies Sweep SF, the Nation After today's profoundly disappointing news that gay marriage was repealed in the state of Maine -- alas, unadulterated hate wins again -- rallies will be held across the country starting tonight. To find
SF News SF Company Helped Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law SF Appeal brings it to our attention that smarmy San Francisco-based (located on Maiden Lane, specifically) "independent integrated marketing communications company," Criswell and Associates, earned about $700K in the past couple of months
SF News Prop 8 Must Release Records, Says Judge The people who sponsored last year's gay marriage ban must hand over certain internal campaign records to lawyers looking to overturn Prop 8. Turning down a request to block their super-special information from
SF News Another Reason To Make Gay Marriage Legal Now This story comes out of Florida, not San Francisco, but it's pretty compelling. See, a few years ago, a hospital refused to let a lesbian, Janice Langbehn, see her dying partner, Lisa Pond,
misc Local "Notables" Pose for NOH8 Photos Everyone from Hilary Newsom to Bevan Duffy to San Francisco treasure/icon Joy Bianchi, above, participated in the NOH8 photo campaign, a campaign to help repeal Prop 8. The campaign involves people with
SF News City of SF In, Gay Groups Out in Federal Prop 8 Lawsuit The gay marriage case that Hollywood made will be heading to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on January 11th, and the City of San Francisco will be included as a party to
SF News Gay Couple Dissed By Utah Paper A California gay couple who were legally married in San Francisco last summer have had their wedding announcement rejected by a southern Utah newspaper that claimed to be friendly to gay wedding announcements.
SF News Equality California Decides to Wait 'Til 2012 for Gay Marriage Fight In a decision that is probably wise and shouldn't be too shocking, Equality California announced today that they will put off the ballot fight for gay marriage until 2012, rather than going for
SF News Field Poll: California Democrats More Tolerant Than in 1977, Republicans Less The Field Poll came out with their August 2009 California Opinion Index (PDF), which indicates that California Democrats and Non-Partisans have become more progressive on hot topics in the past thirty years, whereas
SF News Sacramento Businesses Ban <i>Sacramento News & Review</i> Over Gay Cover (Allegedly) The July 2 issue of Sacramento News & Review, it seems, wasn't the most popular issue of SN&R. Why? Well, the cover story -- featuring a safe couple, Ben and Lonny
SF News Anti-Gay Miss California to Pen Book Anti-LGBT Carrie Prejean -- the former Miss California who was stripped of her title after using her crown to spread hate in lieu of doing her pageant duties -- has been offered a
SF News Catholic Group Slams Leno Bill Defending Marriage As some of you know, Marc Leno's pushing a bill that wouldn't change any same-sex marriage laws, just clarify existing ones. See, Leno wants the state of California to recognize gay marriages taking
SF News Massachusetts Sues Federal Government Over DOMA The state of Massachusetts has sued the Federal government over the Domestic Marriage Act, claiming that it discriminates against the people, namely gay folks, who want to wed. According to the , "the lawsuit,
SF News Federal Judge Says No to Gay Marriage Ban Injunction As expected, U.S. judge in San Francisco denied an injunction yesterday on a federal lawsuit that challenged Prop 8. What does this mean? This: So, after the California Supreme court came down
SF News 'Legalize Gay' Shirts, Are They a Good Thing? American Apparel is offering "Legalize Gay" shirts for those of you who feel the need to (gaudily) show your support for same-sex marriage on your chest. You can even get one for free
SF News Dennis Herrera Helps SF Join Federal Bid to Smash Prop. 8 Don't let the Obama's defense of DOMA get you down this Pride season. City Attorney Dennis Herrera just filed a brief in federal court yesterday stating the obvious: Proposition 8 has no constitutionally
SF News Carrie Prejean to Lose Miss California Crown Today According to TMZ -- who has been on a relentless pursuit of all things anti-Prejean, ever since she slammed gay marriage on live TV -- the disgraced Miss California title winner lost her
SF News Breaking: New Hampshire Approves Gay Marriage "New Hampshire legislators," according to AP, "have approved a measure that would make the state the sixth to allow gay marriage." And Gov. John Lynch will, most likely, sign the legislation sometime this
SF News Photos: Saturday's "Meet in the Middle" Prop 8 Protest in Fresno On Saturday, droves of pro-civil rights citizens and "hundreds" of anti-gay, bigoted types rallied in Fresno for an event called Meet in the Middle for Equality. Newsom wast there so was Charlize Theron.
