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...

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...

TowleRoad has posted pictures of the press conference to promote legislation to create a holiday remembering openly gay politician Harvey Milk held yesterday in San Francisco attended by 2-time Oscar winner Sean Penn and SB 572's sponsor, State Senator Mark Leno and Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, as we...

Equality California has released a 30-second ad that it says it will start airing on television stations around the state to educate Californians about the history of the discriminations against LGBT individuals. Watch the ad below: What do you notice is missing? Yup. The words "Gay" or "Lesbian" or...

Wanda Sykes has a profile written by reporter Ari Karpel in the latest Advocate magazine, which is now a monthly. There are some interesting tidbits into the newest members of the Out Celebrity pantheon which include Ellen Degeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, T.R. Knight, Rosie O'Donnell and Sir Ian McKe...

Darnell Grisby (Planning Committee co-chair) and Anne Marks (Equality Summit organizer) UCLA Law School's Williams Institute Visiting Scholar Catherine Smith and MadProfessah MadProfessah andEquality Summit Planning Committee co-chair Andrea Shorter MadProfessah and Equality California Executive Dir...

Throughout the Proposition 8 battle, the No On 8 campaign refused to publicly identify its executive committee members, much to the consternation of many in the LGBT press. In December, San Francisco-based activist/troublemaker Michael Petrelis filed one of those fancy liberal Freedom Of Information...

I cross-posted this to The Equality Summit blog: An article written by Seth Hemmelgarn entitled Summit planners stingy with No on Prop 8 dollars was published by the Bay Area Reporter. With hundreds of LGBT marriage equality advocates expected to attend the Equality Summit in Los Angeles Saturday, J...

As has been documented here and on many other LGBT blogs, the decision making of the No On 8 campaign was largely done behind closed doors, much to the concern of many donors who questioned several critical strategies of the operation. Later this month there will be a postmortem summit of No On 8 or...

State Senator Gloria Romero It's all about MadProfessah's hood! Previously, I blogged about a scramble among prominent Latino politicians in Los Angeles that had started when word leaked that MadProfessah's congressman, U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA-31) had been offered a position in President Obama'...