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 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 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 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 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 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
SF News Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage The Vermont legislature overrode the Governor's veto of same sex marriage today, making the state that produces Chubby Hubby the fourth state to legalize gay marriage. Just days after Iowa (unlike California) surprised
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,
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
misc Film du Jour: "Prop 8 - The Musical" See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die Prop 8 bit starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Margaret Cho, Allison Janney, Maya Rudolph, and more. Oh, and it's good. Real good.
SF News Quote of the Day: Constitutional Crisis Speaking about today's California Supreme Court agreeing to hear case on same-sex marriage, City Attorney Dennis Herrera had this to say: No matter what your view of same-sex marriage, it is important to
SF News California Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Gay Marriage A decision has been made. The California Supreme Court has decided to hear the legal issues over Prop. 8, the same-sex marriage ban which passed by razor-thin 52% of the vote, but said
SF News California Awaits Supreme Court Prop 8 Decision With six separate lawsuits filed to ask the state Supreme Court to overturn Prop. 8, we could find out as soon as, well, any second now if the state's highest court will review
SF News Update On Heart Attack Victim at Yesterday's Gay Marriage Melee We briefly touched on this yesterday, that someone at City Hall had a heart attack during the celebration cum protest. According to SF Weekly, local AIDS activist Michael Petrelis saw what went down.
SF News Chapel Opens In the Castro Just in time for the legalization of homosexual marriage, and for those of you who don't feel like getting married anywhere near the grimy Civic Center, Heart of the Castro Wedding Chapel opened
SF News Reason Why the Homeless Totally Rule We like the homeless, and we loathe talking too much shit about folks without homes because (arguably) it's like kicking a dog while it's down. Homeless people not only fill out the other
SF News Photos: Gay Marriage Begins at SF City Hall, June 16 Exciting stuff, folks. Here are some images recently taken late this afternoon at and around San Francisco City Hall as Mayor Gavin Newsom officiates Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin's marriage just inside. (Congratulations,
