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Even more on the whole republican support for marriage equality

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:48:06 -0700

Even more on the whole republican support for marriage equality

A must watch video from stop8.org that breaks down the blatant...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:17:00 -0700

A must watch video from stop8.org that breaks down the blatant lies NOM, the ‘national organization for marriage’ is putting out once again to try to anger people re: the recent ruling declaring Prop 8 unconstitutional. NOM’s video is full of their usual tactics of deceit. It is all they have as reality eludes them time and time again.

GOP, Tazmania and Mexico City all lovin' gay marriage

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:59:00 -0700

Same-sex marriage gains GOP support

A Washington Post article today details that a growing number of Republicans are breaking with the party’s traditional stance to publicly state their support for same-sex marriage

Tasmania for marriage equality

ABC NEWS reports that the parliament of Tasmania approved a law to recognize same-sex marriages and civil unions registered in other Australian states or countries.

We like Towleroad’s take on marriage equality and the GOP today Former McCain Campaign Manager Schmidt Says Gay Marriage a Conservative Issue

CNN posted this story about the global impact of LGBT travel and highlights Mexico City’s current push to attract sweet little newlyweds from around the world to honeymoon in their newly super gay friendly yes you can get married here now! Latin-American city

Separate Is Not Equal. Our friends Stuart and John illustrate...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:22:00 -0700

Separate Is Not Equal. Our friends Stuart and John illustrate in this video the awkwardness of having a non-federally recognized marriage and that to be really equal we all need to be able to drink from the same fountain. The video also goes on to satirically illustrate the difficulties of a the less advantageous civil union or domestic partnership that fall far short of the legal protections, rights and societal inclusiveness of marriage.

More straight families for marriage equality

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:27:56 -0700

Let’s add Ugly Betty alum, Christopher Gorham, who played the adorable accountant Henry, to the list of of people who strongly support marriage equality. Not only did he and his wife and three cuties kids pose for the NoH8 Campaign, the actor chose to use that image on the Today show this morning instead of another pic of the family. Yet another family who not only doesn’t worry heteros will become extinct if we are allowed to marry, but looks forward to the day when we all have secured the blessing of liberty.

Pre-Prop 8, it was easy enough to believe that we were a...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:09:00 -0700

Pre-Prop 8, it was easy enough to believe that we were a majority living in San Francisco. If not a demographic majority, we at least felt safe to assume that we were a philosophical majority in a city (and we dared to believe a state) that largely believed in equality for all people, LGBT included.

Post-Prop 8, we know better. While our home of San Francisco voted heavily against Prop 8, our neighbors outside these bridges voted soundly (enough) in favor of the anti-gay measure. Thus, we’ve come to know the power that rests in the hands of our friends—the straight friends who are in a solid position to speak up on our behalf.

This week, our friend Gina Pell, founder and content chief of the style site Splendora.com, spoke up for us and other LGBT couples when she asked to feature the marriage equality–themed video that Frank created in the days leading to the November 2008 election.

“Everything Must Change” remains a poignant depiction of why marriage equality matters—for loving couples and our families and children—and Gina’s inclusion of this piece in her online Personal Weekly Radar, among fashion videos and pictures of Marilyn Monroe, further illustrates the influence that our supportive friends may have among audiences outside our immediate reach. In Gina’s case, the audience is young (often teenage) female fashionistas who are looking to her (a fashion icon) for what’s hot, what’s right, and what’s right now. In Gina’s eyes, marriage equality is all of the above.

Thank you Gina—and to all the other Ginas out there—for your support!

Lawyers may move to recover Prop. 8 court costs

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:52:35 -0700

SFGate posted a story today indicating that once the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decides on the Aug. 4 ruling that overturned the ban on marriage equality in California, the pro-gay lawyers would seek MILLIONS from the anti-gay folks who defended the ban in court after California’s governor and attorney general refused to do so.

"Judge Walker: I Doubt Prop 8 Ruling Can Be Appealed"

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:55:49 -0700

“Judge Walker: I Doubt Prop 8 Ruling Can Be Appealed”

- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/judge-walker-i-doubt-prop_n_681224.html

At the courthouse today waiting with the bedrock couples of...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:31:09 -0700

Midge & Cindy, 15yr couple, waiting

Wating to verify denial of stay

Molly gets good news

Couples upset they won't marry today

Councilman says we won't quit

At the courthouse today waiting with the bedrock couples of marriage equality: Stuart and John; Molly and Davina. It was another moving day, moving in our hearts and moving in the right direction. There were couples who had filled out marriage applications and were saddened to not be able to make a legal commitment to each other today. Fingers crossed they can tie the knot next Wednesday.

Editorial Cartoon

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:52:00 -0700

Don’t miss this one from the Dallas Voice. Uncanny likeness of Mags

In one week...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:20:52 -0700

So much positive ground has been made for marriage equality. For those of you just joining us, and wonder why full marriage equality matters, it is simple. All couples who are in love and committed to each other should be respected and protected by society equally. Every child should share the same dream, the wonderful dream of growing up and falling in love, having a wedding surrounded by family and friends and sharing a life with someone else.

This week in marriage equality:

TODAY: U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker will issue a ruling this morning on whether to allow marriages in California to begin again or stay a decision in the Proposition 8 case. We found this story which helps explain why this judge, who last week ruled the heinous prop 8 unconstitutional, might grant a stay and where we go from here.

YESTERDAY:

Video: Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck: “Do you believe gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?”
Beck to O’ Reilly “A threat to the country? No, I don’t. Will the gays come and get us?”

Majority support marriage equality for first time: CNN poll

The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to allow same-sex couples to marry in the United States.

8/10/2010 Mexico Gay Marriage: Supreme Court Orders All Mexican States To Recognize Weddings Performed In Mexico City

Basketball Star Isiah Thomas appears in ad campaign pro gay marriage

Judge: Same-sex marriage license valid | Santa Fe, New Mexico

8/8/2010 Mexican Supreme Court upholds gay marriage in Mexico City

Conservative republican lawyer on Fox News explaining why the rights of minorities are not determined by popular vote

Unitarian Society backs gay marriage

8/7/2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Let gays and lesbians marry now

Same-sex marriage is currently legal in five US states — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa and New Hampshire — and in the District of Columbia. Outside the US: Argentina. Belgium,Canada, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Mexico City.

Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional - The Moment

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional - The Moment

"California is able to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, as it has already issued 18,000..."

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

““California is able to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, as it has already issued 18,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples and has not suffered any demonstrated harm as a result.””

- http://www.7x7.com/love-sex/supreme-court-rules-prop-8-unconstitutional

David Boise on the case against Prop 8

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:23:46 -0700

“One of the most invidious of the state-sponsored discriminations against gays and lesbians is the prohibition of gay and lesbian marriage”

“Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress.”

“What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:30:00 -0700

“What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance.”

Sen. Norma Morandini. Argentina

“It’s very worrisome to hear words like ‘God’s war’ or ‘the devil’s project,[by the opposition]’ things that recall the times of the Inquisition,”

President Cristina Fernandez, Argentina

Evan Wolfson, who runs the U.S. Freedom to Marry lobby said “Today’s historic vote shows how far Catholic Argentina has come, from dictatorship to true democratic values, and how far the freedom to marry movement has come, as twelve countries on four continents now embrace marriage equality.” Read more in the Salt Lake City Tribune…

One more HUGE victory for equality today in DC!! 7/15/10

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:18:00 -0700

One more HUGE victory for equality today in DC!! 7/15/10

The Atlantic’s latest story on the federal prop 8 trial...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:39:00 -0700

The Atlantic’s latest story on the federal prop 8 trial has a video of David Boise discussing the trial and how he wishes it would have been televised, so that the people who oppose marriage equality could have seen the questions that the opposition had to answer on the stand and said to themselves, ’How would I have answered those questions?’ Boise states that it is ”easy to have a bumper sticker, a slogan that says marriage is between a man and a woman, but when you begin to think about the issues, you think about the harm that it causes, you think about the gains that allowing people who are in love to marry the person that they love and not forcing them to marry somebody that they don’t love and aren’t attracted to, when you think about the harm that’s done to the children, when you think about the lack of any redeeming social desires that this kind of ban has, it is inevitable that a rational person on the stand faced with those kind of questions is going to admit that.

A TRUE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: A federal judge in Boston declared...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:24:00 -0700

A TRUE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: A federal judge in Boston declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). A law that wrote discrimination into the constitution by baring federal recognition of same-sex marriage.

SO NOW WHAT?

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says in this video from last nights Rachel Maddow Show, that although “Judge Tauro’s decision does not technically apply to other states,’’ it will apply to the approximately 16,000 same-sex married couples in Massachusetts. They will now be eligible for the same 1138 federal rights, benefits and protections extended to married heterosexuals. One small step forward for mankind.

Were you at our pride photo booth in San Francisco? If so,...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Were you at our pride photo booth in San Francisco? If so, check out your images here!

Lots-o-fun ya’ll! See you again next year when we have marriage equality for all in California!

“HUSBANDS AND HUSBANDS” In “Husbands and...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:27:23 -0800

“HUSBANDS AND HUSBANDS”

In “Husbands and Husbands,” a young lad meets a pair of husbands for the first time. He asks a few questions, and then he just gets it. No fear. No weirdness. Amid all the conservative hoopla about protecting the children from gay marriage, this video is an absolutely perfect reminder that it is the children who are the most accepting and most open-minded (and maybe even the smartest) among us. Now let’s go play some ping pong.