LOS ANGELES (CNN) – While he predicted Republicans would adopt a bumper sticker slogan of “It’s Obama’s fault” this election year, President Barack Obama maintained he was “very proud” of his work in the past three and a half years. “They’re going to say, ‘Well you know what, you’re still not satisfied, then it’s Obama’s…
NEW YORK – The group of rabbinic Conservatives, which had already affirmed that same-sex marriages have “the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages” have now established rituals for same-sex wedding ceremonies. JTA reports that the landmark vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative movement’s…
(CNN) – The daughter of Cuba’s president supports the re-election bid of President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast recently on CNNi’s Amanpour. “As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” said Mariela Castro…
MOSCOW – A Moscow court has upheld the decision to ban Pride events for the next hundred years. The Tverskoy district court stated it was lawful for the Russian capital’s municipal government to decline the 102 requests filed by gay rights activist Nikolay Alexeyev for Pride marches every year until 2112. Alexeyev plans to appeal…
The first mayoral poll came out this week and its Filner ahead by four points over DeMaio. While this will be long campaign, never have I witnessed a mayoral candidate so disliked and divisive as Carl DeMaio. Prominent national minority leaders to endorse Bob Filner Leaders and activists from the Latino, African American, Native American,…
What do you say when a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of your Tony decorated show asks for a commission for a new musical? Such is the case with Doug Wright (I Am my Own Wife) and the La Jolla Playhouse’s Hands on a Hardbody (based on the documentary of the same title). The body of the…
We get it. Millennials, those born roughly between 1983 and 2001, thunderously approve of same-sex marriage. Poll after poll after poll indicates that the generation that enters the last year of its 20s this year not only endorses the civil rights of same-sex couples, but has claimed the revelation of its position as its very…
There has been a sea change since President Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage. There has been a dramatic shift in the American consciousness. First, the narrative that most African Americans do not support same-sex marriage is dead. Dead. A recent poll by the Washington Post found that 59 percent of African Americans…
Rock of Ages In the first few minutes of 1980s-set pop-rock musical Rock of Ages, Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) climbs onto a bus to Los Angeles, flips through her collection of power pop rock albums, rereads a good luck note from her grandmother, sighs hopefully and starts singing – along with the entire bus –…
