SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but ref...
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 11.19.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but ref...
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
A mass movement of peaceful protest is crucial at building the political momentum to attain marriage equality -- which can convince the Court it's okay to overturn the "will of the voters."
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Prop 8 was not your typical "amendment" that merely tinkers with the California Constitution. It was a drastic revision that deprives a "suspect class" (gays and lesbians) of a fundamental right under equal protection.
Peter Scheer | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Although its name did not even appear on the ballot, the California Supreme Court was perhaps the state's biggest loser in Tuesday's historic elections.
Gary Cohan | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
In the most personal way possible, I'm asking you for a favor: help us ensure that gay couples all across California keep their fundamental right to marriage.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
It seems a pretty certain bet that most of the LGBT community will vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden, though with curtailed enthusiasm after numerous missteps.
Charlotte Robinson | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home
Below is an interview with Lee Swislow, the executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. GLAD, a 30-year-old organization, is probab...
Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
They came pumped and ready to give. They knew what was at stake and they wanted to be part of history. And by the end of the 15 minutes allotted to ...
Erik Ose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
To fully understand recent events, it's important to remember a tragedy that happened thirty-five years ago, and how much things have changed for gays and lesbians since then.
Robin Tyler | Posted 06.22.2008 | Living
Yes, it was a simple, tasteful wedding, with our rabbi, our immediate families, 65 friends, and something we hadn't expected -- more than 100 reporters and photographers from all over the world.
Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Robin Tyler | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living
The California Gold Rush is definitely on. Tomorrow Diane and I will go to see Rabbi Eger, who will ask us if we are sure about getting married -- even though we've been together for 15 years.
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
SAN FRANCISCO — Barring a stay of a historic California Supreme Court ruling, same-sex couples will be able to wed in the state beginning June 1...
Bruce Gilardi | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living
One simply can't overemphasize how momentous last week's California Supreme Court's decision to legalized marriage between same sex couples will be. ...
Robin Tyler | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living
After 15 years together, and 20 years before that as friends, Diane and I were finally getting married!
Robin Tyler | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
In California, where Diane Olson and I were the initial lesbian litigants on the historic marriage equality case, we finally had our day in court. And what a day it was!
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
The California Supreme Court has overturned that state's ban on gay marriage. Is marriage a legal right or a sacred rite? Should the state be involved in marriage? Should religious institutions?
Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Do conservatives disagree that California law recognizes a right to same-sex marriage? They've been so hasty to brand the ruling as "judicial activism" that they failed to argue that it was wrong.
Jeremy Gerard | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
After last week's California ruling, Obama's position that "that same-sex couples should enjoy equal rights under the law, and he will continue to fight for civil unions" no longer cuts it.
Tom Gregory | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
With mountains of progressive social evolution yet to be scaled in our America, will we have to wait till 2027 for the U.S. Supreme Court to bring us to the 20th century?
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home
The California Court has drawn on apt precedence in voting to end a ban on gay marriage. Blacks and gays have both endured centuries of hatred based on perversions of original biblical texts.
Terrance Heath | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
I knew as soon as the California Supreme Court marriage ruling was posted, that I would read the whole thing. I started reading it at my desk, after i...
Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
The decision could be overturned if a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage makes it onto the November ballot, as expected, and is passed by voters.
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AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics