After meeting with President Obama and speaking to a joint session of the United States Congress, Prime Minister Gordon Brown returned home to host in Number 10 Downing Street a reception for the LGBT leaders of Great Britain. The event was the second function in about six months. In October, First ...

When the history of the gay rights movement is written – hopefully sooner rather than later – the story of Prop. 8's damage to gays and lesbians may be overshadowed by the way the California gay marriage ban transformed the gay movement. In a survey conducted by Queerty of several h...

All you legally gay-married folks will not be counted in the 2010 U.S. census. Census takers will ask same-sex couples who live together to define themselves as "unmarried partners," as they did in 2000 before some states - currently only Connecticut and Massachusetts - allowed gay marriage. "This i...

Marc Solomon, the Executive Director of MassEquality has accepted a position as Marriage Director at Equality California. Solomon headed the organization when it went from a small statewide organization with a budget of less than a half-million dollars to its current budget of over 3 million dollars...

The U.S. House of Representatives sole lesbian member will introduce a bill targeted at providing gay federal employees many of the same rights as their straight co-workers in a domestic partnership bill timed to join up with a matching Senate version of the bill sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman ...

Below is a guest commentary I wrote and submitted to Bay Windows this week, regarding Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders’ (GLAD) challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act filed on Tuesday. I previously wrote on this subject at Q-Notes‘ blog, assembloge. Guest Opinion DOMA cha...

The California Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to arguments in favor of Proposition 8 , the state’s anti-gay marriage law, according to the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper reported that “only two of the court’s seven justices indicated a possible readiness to overturn” th...

According to most of California's major newspapers, today was not our day. San Francisco Chronicle : California Supreme Court justices directed sharp questioning today at attorneys seeking to overturn Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Justice Joyce Kennard, one of the justi...

At last night's protest and rally to reject Prop. 8, Los Angeles Mayor and rising Democratic political star Antonio Villaraigosa took to the Olvera Street gazebo and led a ceremony where gay couples married last year renewed their vows. One lesbian couple, children in tow, prompted Villaraigosa...

"We can't let people like the people behind me get away with flushing 45 million fucking dollars down the toilet!" - Audience member Rem Melton addressing the crowd at a public forum in San Francisco discussing the failures of No On 8. Melton was referring to senior No On 8 committee members such as...