SF News Yet Another Argument For Same Sex Marriage Sean Penn didn't shame you into compliance last night? When relentlessly sporting demographic analyst David Latterman weighed in on Nelson Minear's M4M project, his projections were hobbled -- nay, crippled by the paucity
SF News Images: "Signs of Hatred" at the Oscars As refined "commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns" approached last night's Oscars, here's what they were greeted with before arriving to the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. The folks from God Hates Fags ilk. Yep, they
SF News Judiciary Committee Passes Resolution Opposing Prop 8 California is one step closer to getting Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that passed in November, overturned. Hopefully. A judiciary committee passed House Resolution 5 today (care of one Tom Ammiano, D-San
SF News Prop 8 Can't Rain On Freedom to Marry Day Five years ago yesterday, the first "I do" heard around the world rang out when Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin exchanged wedding vows in the early morning hours at San Francisco City Hall,
SF News East Bay Express Fuels Prop 8 Harassment Myth Ever since Prop 8 donor names were revealed, those who donated to allow discrimination in the California state constitution have feared retaliation from angry citizens. Problem is, we have yet hear one example
SF News SFist Fibs: Another American Apparel Post What with Bush out of office, American Apparel has, unfortunately, turned into a lightening rod for San Francisco's wrath. And who are we to argue with traffic gold? That said, American Apparel's "Legalize
SF News Utah Ilk & LDS Church Spent More on Prop. 8 than Previously Known Briefly touched upon last week when the final batch of Prop 8 donor names unfurled, Utah citizens and the LDS Church spent more on getting Prop. 8 passed than previously known. According to
SF News 'Map of Prop 8 Donors' Heats Up One of the perks of being behind-the-scenes here at SFist is that we get to read all of the angry comments that come after a story has moved away from the home (or
SF News 'Legalize Gay' Shirts At the risk of allowing one day to pass without an American Apparel post: the good folks over at American Apparel (maybe you've heard of them?) have made these nifty "Legalize Gay" t-shirts.
SF News Prop 8's Forced-Divorces Will Break Our Hearts "Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo. We dare you to watch the Courage Campaign's Fidelity video and not get all weepy. We were able to keep it together until it got
SF News New Prop. 8 Donor Names Released After all the brouhaha the Yes On 8 sect put the courts through finally subsided -- trying to keep proposition 8 donor name hidden, even though they were the first ones to threaten
SF News Branching out on Behalf of Gay Marriage: A Good Thing, Bad Thing, or Somewhere in Between? Just about everyone agrees: gays can win more support for civil equality by partering with ally-communities. This is a nice-sounding idea, particularly in the San Francisco bubble. But what does it mean --
SF News Prop 8 Backers Admit That They Don't Really Believe Their Own Arguments Oh this Prop 8 stuff just gets hairier and hairier. We were thumbing through some articles about the people who backed Prop 8; that includes groups like the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty,
SF News Prop. 8 Donor Names Remain Public, Rules Judge U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr. ruled in favor of keeping proposition 8 donor info public. Anti-gay marriage ilk tried to get a preliminary injunction to hide the identities of those who
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for concerned citizens
SF News Get Ready to Lose Prop 8 Part Two: They're Already Fighting to Protect DOMA Oh, . While gay activists were busy angrily masturbating at each other, the people on the other side were busy accomplishing things. They're anticipating that Obama will overturn DOMA (which is like the national
misc Get This On Television Now With this week's slew of court filings, the post-Prop-8 fight for civil equality is still hot hot hot. And even though some of the 15-minutes-of-fame organizers may be losing focus, the pros aren't
SF News Oscar Grant Killing and Gays = Wha? In an effort to dilute itself into irrelevance, Join the Impact, a grassroots No On 8 site, has now taken on Our Patron Saint of BART Police Oppression, Oscar Grant. In its most
SF News Map of Prop 8 Donors Oh dear. Get ready to freak out. Somebody has gone and created a mash-up of Google Maps and Prop 8 Donors. Which you can see right here. Proposition 8, if you recall, changed
misc Sublime Point/Counterpoint Protest on Homosexual Sex Photo by Ben Golub, found at SFCitizen Well, this is downright adorable. And who is that guy on the left? We would like to marry him.
SF News Prop 8 Protest-Fatigue and Message-Dilution to Continue in 2009 What busy times these are for homosexuals and their sympathizers! Protests aplenty loom in the coming weeks and months. An unofficial list of upcoming events can be found at the Against8 blog; and
SF News Pope Benedict XVI Says Nope to Gays and Trannies The main man who gives something so important as religion a bad name, Pope Benedict XVI, has publicly said that "saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior is just as important as saving
Arts & Entertainment Notes on Equality Camp Equality Camp happens January third at Citizen Space. It's an opportunity for everyone who cares about civil marriage equality to get together, toss around ideas, and fuel the grassroots organizing for the next
SF News Attorney General Jerry Brown Declares Prop 8 Invalid Whoa. This is big. Attorney General and former Governor of California Jerry Brown says prop 8 is invalid. Yesterday Brown filed a legal brief claiming the same-sex marriage ban, which would amend the
SF News Revoke 8 Rally 12/19 at Noon What with the holiday shopping (very little) and binge drinking (very much) we've been doing as of late, we almost forgot to tell you that there will be another prop 8 protest today.