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 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 Prop 8, DOMA Cases Go Before Supreme Court On Friday In the ongoing legal battle between people who just want to marry each other and people who have an antiquated definition of marriage, the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether
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 Activists Protest San Francisco's New Tipsy Archbishop Roman Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone made his debut performance on Thursday at St. Mary’s Cathedral amid dozens of civil rights advocates gathered outside the church. Why? Cordileone is staunchly anti-gay and
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 New SF Archbishop Partakes In Too Much 'Holy Water,' Gets Arrested For Drunk Driving A soon-to-be appointed San Francisco Archbishop risked the lives of others when he decided to take to the road while blotto. Dreamy-eyed Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was arrested on Saturday at 12:26
Arts & Entertainment 'Survivor: Philippines' Casts Anti-Gay Baseball MVP Jeff Kent, Blair From 'Facts Of Life' Jeff Kent, who won the National League Most Valuable Player award in 2000 while playing for the San Francisco Giants, will grace the CBS primetime line-up by appearing in Survivor: Philippines. Regarding his
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 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 News Amazon Founder Pitches Whopping $2.5 Million For Gay Marriage In Washington Billionaire Amazon President Jeff Bezos just became one of the largest financial backers of gay marriage rights in the country with a hefty $2.5 million pledge supporting Washington State's Referendum 74, which
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
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 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.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Amazing Nebraska Woman's Crazy Homophobic Rant The most amazing video you'll see all day, hands down, will definitely be this footage of a woman named Jane Swoboda getting up to speak at a city council meeting this week in
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 Breaking: Obama Announces Support For Same-Sex Marriage In an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts this afternoon, President Obama announced that he has "always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally." After speaking with many
SF News North Carolina Moves Backward With Gay Marriage Ban On Tuesday, voters in North Carolina approved Amendment One, amending that state's constitution to clearly define marriage as the legal union between one man and one woman. As the LA Times notes, the
Arts & Entertainment Someone Should Fund These Old Testament Billboards Atheists, the generally religion-averse, and the rest of us who are just goddamn tired of fundamentalist Christians quoting the Old Testament as evidence that the "word of God" is unimpeachable and homosexuality isn't
SF News Mitt Romney Was A Major Financial Donor To California's Gay-Marriage Ban The Human Rights Campaign released financial documents today from the National Organization for Marriage (AKA NOM, the organization partially responsible for Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban) that show a staggering $10,000
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
