When Homophobia Becomes a Family Affair
You know how it is with best friends. You’re like family. My dear friend from high school, Tracy, comes from a big family that has always made me feel like one of their daughters.
LA Times Exposes Lies from Yes on Prop 8 Campaign
The Los Angeles Times today ran an editorial very critical of the Yes on Prop 8 Campaign comparing it to a “magician s act” which distracts the audience to “something attention grabbing but irrelevant so that …
En Route To Obama Nation
I meet a nice woman in the airport who’s flying to California for her lesbian sister’s shotgun wedding.
SF Mayor, Religious Leaders Rally Against Prop. 8
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Bay Area religious leaders called on voters to reject a ballot measure that would ban same-sex marrige in California.
Weekly Feminist Reader
Just two days before the election, every single guest on the Sunday political talk shows is a man .
Gay marriage issue brings out raw emotions
The rawest emotions in this grueling election campaign may not be focused on the presidential race, but on the 37 words that make up a ban on gay marriage known as Amendment 2. Proponents say the amendment is …
Using Obama against Prop. 8
I mentioned earlier that the backers of a same-sex marriage ban in California used Obama in a mailing to black voters. The “no” side in California’s gay marriage ban fight, a friends notes, is also using him, in the ad above.
Republican mayor of San Diego supports gay marriage
Turns back on campaign promises to oppose gay marriage in an emotional press conference: Surprisingly poignant.
Iraq may be Obama's first 'test'
The very issue that Obama wishes to put behind him in order to get on with other challenges, such as Afghanistan and climate change, has the power to drag him down — and it will do so, if he becomes president, …
Prop 8 Backers Use Obama and Biden’s Own Words
Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden have publicly opposed gay marriage, but when the backers of Prop 8 used their own words in a mailer promoting the measure which would restore the definition of marriage in …
