misc Castro Rainbow Flag Flies at Half-Mast A black flag flies over the rainbow flag in the Castro, which was set at half-mast this morning. after the California State Supreme Court ruled to uphold prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban.
SF News Carrie Prejean: the Superhero, the Comic Our very favorite "painted whore," Carrie Prejean, the current anti-gay Miss California, has a fun, new comic penned in her honor. With story and lettering by Brian Andersen and art and colors by
SF News What People Are Saying About the Prop 8 Ruling What are notables saying about the California State Supreme Court upholding prop. 8? Let's find out. Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D, San Francisco): Today's Supreme Court opinion upholding Prop. 8 is a stark reminder
SF News "Fidelity": Join the Movement to Repeal Prop 8 The Courage Campaign will lace the airwaves in California with a 60-second TV ad version of "Fidelity," which is about a "heartbreaking online video viewed by more than 1.2 million people, making
misc Photo du Jour 320 San Francisco police officer Len Broberg, right, hugs Doug Mezzacapo, left, a married gay man, in front of San Francisco City Hall today.
SF News Official Prop 8 Ruling Document Here it is in all of its confusing glory. In a nutshell, Rota Hao explains, it's because our constitution sucks -- even Mississippi has a provision in their constitution that says "you can't
SF News Explanation of Prop 8 Ruling and What to Do Now Matt Baume (SFAppeal contributor, SFist emeritus, Stop8.org founder, and one of the leading voice in the fight against prop. 8) created this helpful film that explains today's Prop 8 ruling and what
SF News Prop. 8 Protesters Block Intersection at Van Ness & Grove The intersection at "Grove and Van Ness [is] corked by 200 protesters, more coming from civic center," says Jim Herd who is live on the scene. Traffic is blocked as far as he
SF News Prop 8 Upheld, Rules California State Supreme Court As anticipated, the California State Supreme Court ruled to uphold prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban. That means that gay marriage in the state of California is still considered illegal, effectively stripping away
SF News Photos from Prop 8 Ruling Day, San Francisco Some images from the scene in San Francisco before and after the prop 8 ruling. We'll add more images as the day moves on. (Feel free to send your images to editor@sfist.
SF News Coverage of Protests Outside CA Supreme Court KRON4 has this coverage from earlier this morning of protesters at the ready outside the court where the Prop 8 announcement is set to be announced in just over an hour. They also
SF News Prop 8 Announcement Today At 10 a.m. this morning, the state supreme court will announce its ruling whether to overturn or uphold prop 8, the gay marriage banned that passed last November. The constitutional amendment barely
SF News Meghan McCain Urges NY State GOP To Support Gay Marriage Meghan McCain, daughter of the Senator and P.O.W. presidential candidate John McCain, wrote an opinion piece in the Daily News today. What it is is this: an open letter to New
SF News Prop 8 Decision on Tuesday After much speculation this week, the California State Supreme Court will announce its official decision on Prop 8, the gay marriage ban, on Tuesday, May 26 Here's what will go down the day
SF News UPDATE: Newsom Asks Court to Delay Prop 8 Ruling (or Not) Although police barricades popped up in the Castro and the Supreme Court building last night, tomorrow's Supreme court ruling has been delayed. It seems Gavin Newsom asked to court to delay the ruling
SF News Gay Marriage Will Benefit Ailing Economy Gay marriage as an attack on small businesses? Because said small businesses would have to pay healthcare? Not even close, Michael Steel, chairperson of the Republican National Committee. That is a lie. What
SF News Trump Says Miss California Gets to Keep Crown Anti-gay rights advocate Miss California Carrie Prejean gets to keep her meaningless crown, said Donald Trump. After pageant officials sort of said they would let her keep her head bauble yesterday, even though
SF News Miss California Gets to Keep Title, Says Pageant Officials Sleep easy, defenders of free speech and a vengeful God. Pro-discrimination Miss California, the lying whore who famously told the audience at the Miss USA pageant that same-sex marriage was icky and wrong,
SF News Maine to Become Fifth State to Allow Gay Marriage Well, would you look at that, California? A state known primarily for lobster rolls and Stephen King just signed into action a bill allowing same-sex marriage. Maine Governor John Baldacci had this to
SF News Miss California Partied With Famed NYC Tranny Before Miss California Carrie Prejean spoke her mind on same-sex marriage, which, if you recall, she isn't too keen on, she was hanging with noted NYC club scene transsexual superstar Amanda Lepore. While
SF News Newsom on Rachel Maddow "If you are flipping through the channels. I will be on Rachel Maddow at 615 PST," read Mayor Gavin Newsom's prefered form of communication. And so he was, doing a decent job too.
SF News Newsom Defends Miss California Perhaps in an effort to veer public opinion away from his decision to legalize gay marriage, San Francisco Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom defended homophobic Miss California winner and faux-Christian Carrie Prejean.
SF News New York Governor Introduces Gay Marriage Bill Take note, California: the Governor of New York introducing legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. "There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live in a
SF News Anti-Gay Ad Auditions Uncovered Sure, it's preposterous. Amazing in its unbelievability. But the National Organization for Marriage (a truly vile organization) is something to take notice of, because people believe this shit -- powerful people; people you
SF News D.C. Council Votes to Recognize Other States' Same-Sex Marriages Civil rights have really taken center stage today, yes? First, Vermont legalized gay marriage after Governor Jim Douglas vetoed it on Monday. (An aside: will there be some sort of Ben & Jerry's
