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 Marilyn Monroe Film Used To Shoot Down Prop. 8 While the pundits, legal analysts, and holders of J.D.s pore over the 128 pages of text in the Ninth Circuit Court's decision this morning, we bring you our very favorite arguments
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 About That Prop 8 Fundraiser... A civil rights group billing itself as Love Honor Cherish has partnered with the NOH8 Campaign to "create a public education campaign telling voters why marriage equality is important." Specifically, the two will
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 Prop 8 Sponsors Can Defend Anti-Gay Marriage Measure, Court Rules As we predicted yesterday, the California Supreme Court ruled today that the sponsors of Proposition 8, the California same-sex marriage ban, are now allowed to defend their anti-gay measure in court, "a ruling
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 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 GOP Presidential Candidate H8s on Equality, Polls Rise Texas Governor and “States' Rights Stalwart,” Rick Perry, signed the National Organization for Marriage’s Pledge in an attempt to further endear his presidential campaign to the rightest voters of 2012. By signing
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
SF News Prop 8 Hearing Will Be Televised When the battle over California's same-sex marriage ban heads to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco on September 6, TV cameras will be rolling. SF Appeal notes: "Court spokeswoman Lynn Holton said
SF News Prop 8 Play Coming to Broadway Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Milk and a board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, will bring California's same-sex marriage brouhaha to the Great White Way. His new Prop
SF News Judge Rules Against Same-Sex Marriage Ban; Judge Walker's Ruling Valid Chief Judge Ware has ruled against anti-marriage ilk, throwing out the inane argument that Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling against Prop 8 was unconstitutional since he is a homosexual." Their complaints, if you recall,
SF News Prop 8 Backers Back In Court Today for More Legal Theater Over Judge Vaughn Walker Supporters of Prop 8, who are still fighting a losing battle in the California courts over an unconstitutional law that neither the governor nor the attorney general care to support, are back in
SF News "Loving" and the Fight for Marriage Equality [Updated] Here's a little taste of the Proposition 8 hearing coming up on Monday in San Francisco -- high-power attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies (conservative and liberal, respectively) just released a video about
SF News Day Around the Bay Contributor-about-town Matt Baume gives you: This Week in Prop 8 [LGBTQNation] Stores that ask for your zipcode when you pay with a credit card (like, pretty much all gas stations? OK, so gas
SF News Kamala Harris Asks Courts to Allow Same-Sex Marriages While They Mull Prop 8 Jerry Brown may have refused to defend Proposition 8 in front of the 9th Circuit and Harris has previously said she would do the same, but today she has gone ahead and taken
SF News Rep. Speier Makes Statement On Obama's Decision to No Longer Defend DOMA After news broke that Obama will no longer defend DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act), Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Maeo) released the following statement: The Declaration of Independence got it right—we
SF News Obama Won't Defend DOMA Word just came down from the White House that President Obama's administration will,, according to KRON 4 Morning News, "no longer defend a constitutional clause that bans the recognition of same-sex marriage." Which
SF News W's Daughter Barbara Bush Supports Same-Sex Marriage Working with the Human Rights Campaign's New Yorkers for Marriage Equality, former President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara released a video supporting gay marriage in New York. In the video, Barbara Bush, 29,
SF News Pastor Who Backed Prop 8 Held On Several Child Molestation Charges JoeMyGod has some shocking, yet not so surprising, news on the same-sex marriage front: "Pastor Tom Daniels of Rio Linda, California is being held on $6M bail after being charged with multiple felony
