-The latest development for California's gay marriage laws means it's possible that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi's marriage to one another could be null and void within three months. That is, unless the seven California justices overturn Prop 8. Meanwhile, Pam Anderson can still get married a...

Thirty years ago yesterday (November 27, 1978) San Francisco Board of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor. Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the U.S. Prior to his death he championed a movement agai...

"Dude, if you think that slavery is the only 'sin" America has committed, then you need to do some homework." Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa breaks down the issues surrounding Prop 8 for us all, including: Whom "civil rights" belong to (i.e. not just African Americans). Who is queer: just white men? Why i...

Andrew Sullivan today wrote that California's Prop. 8 "should stand, and the court should decline to reverse it. We lost. They won in a fair fight. No whining." First of all, "we" lost? Sullivan doesn't live or vote in California. He didn't contribute may not have contributed (ed.: as Jeff S. commen...

I was really moved by Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" in regards to same-sex marriage and California's Prop. 8 earlier this week, and several straight friends wrote to tell me about it as well. Here it is, if you haven't seen it already. I was similarly touched by Judith Warner's most recent New...

So, this weekend there are prop 8 protests all over the place. There’s one in Houston. I find myself with mixed feelings about this. Most at hand, I am not at all clear what is being protested. I am sad about the results also, but I don’t really think the proposition was illegal, or corr...

I'd been planning to write this post since the passage of California's Proposition 8 last Tuesday eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry, but because I procrastinated, as usual, others, including Jeff, have beat me to the punch. Nevertheless, here's my own take on the matter. Two issues ...

I quote from a U.S. State Department publication, Democracy in Brief : All democracies are systems in which citizens freely make political decisions by majority rule. In the words of American essayist E.B. White: "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more tha...

There is an unfair ballot proposition in California that, if passed, will take away my fundamental rights. This is really important to me. Will you help me defeat Proposition 8? Jeff and I have been together for five years. We love and support each other in the same way as families all over the coun...