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 Prop 8 NOT Overturned, Folks The interwebs exploded today. Why? Because people have mistakenly assumed Prop 8 was overturned by the California Supreme Court. The gay marriage ban was. In May of 2008. Sort of. See, it seems
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 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 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
SF News Iowa Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage Iowa became the third state in the U.S. (and the first in the heartland!) to legalize gay marriage today.The Iowa State Supreme Court "upheld a lower court's ruling that found a
SF News Rep. Barney Frank Labels Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "Homophobe" Openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in the above interview with 365gay.com. The accurate slam came about when Frank was discussing same-sex marriages and
SF News The Divorce Debate of Prop 8 While lawyers and civil rights advocates agree that Prop 8 will (most likely) be upheld when the State Supreme Court makes its decision, no one can say for sure if forced divorces will
SF News Prop 8: State Equally Divided on Inequality According to a Field Poll of 761 registered voters, "48 percent of those surveyed would support a new ballot initiative repealing Proposition 8, while 47 percent would favor keeping the ban in place,
misc Watch the CA Supreme Court Prop. 8 Hearing Live Please see the video above for a live video feed of the California State Supreme court's Prop. 8 hearing, which will go down as a historic civil rights movement when ruled on. The
SF News Photos: Prop. 8 Supreme Court Ruling Vigil, SF, 3/4 Thousands of marchers headed toward Civic Center. Buoyant crowd. Choppers, fixed wing aircraft overhead. More photos to come. Also, as of 6:30 Van Ness is shut down at City Hall due to
SF News Courage Campaign Working on Something Big to Fix This Prop 8 Situation One of the big criticisms (and there are many) of the No On Prop 8 campaign was that there wasn't enough person-to-person canvassing. According to the folks managing the campaign, they had to
SF News Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW "Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW," said Kate Kendall (Exective Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and one of the architects of the No On Prop 8
SF News Prop 8 Forum at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Tonight Speaking of Prop 8, there will be a public forum tonight at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. If the mood should strike, you can attend to make your feelings heard on gay marriage and
SF News The Eve of Justice: Prop 8 Vigils Planned for Prop. 8 Supreme Court Ruling Next Wednesday, March 4, vigils all over the country will take place the day before the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the validity of Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that
