More than 200 people took to the streets Tuesday to celebrate the ruling of a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down Proposition 8. Braving the rain, participants gathered at 6 p.m. at the corner of 6th Ave. and University Ave. for a short march to the Joyce Beers Community Center…
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $7.5 million dollars in an effort to promote fair housing laws including protections for the LGBT community. Local and state agencies who have been awarded the funds will be used to promote the Department’s new Equal Access to Housing regulation, a non-discriminatory policy that that…
BY VICTOR HOFF Black. Gay. Christian. To be a member of any one of those groups is fraught with all the ugly, untoward stereotypes a country like ours rarely hides. Or, if it does, it’s blanketed in a sort of subtle gloss that shields the perpetrator with an unbelievably high level of unawareness. But for…
BY VICTOR HOFF 1 – What are the parallels/similarities between the black civil rights movement/Latino civil rights movement and the LGBT-rights movement? There are parallels/similarities between the civil rights movements of African Americans, Latino Americans and the other communities of color. The most basic one is that each of these movements are driven by the…
The rich, famous, and not so rich-and-famous are celebrating the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that has declared Proposition 8 as an unconstitutional measure against gays and lesbians who wish to marry in the state of California. The cast of Modern Family – the ABC sitcom that features one of the most popular fictional…
Funny gal Ellen DeGeneres has some words for ‘One Million Moms,’ the anti-gay group who rallied for her removal as JC Penney spokesperson. TV’s daytime queen addressed the group in Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “Good news for marriage equality in California yesterday!” she begins. “Yesterday an appeals court ruled that Prop. 8…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego District Attorney and Mayoral candidate Bonnie Dumanis released the following statement in response to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion today finding Prop 8 unconstitutional. “Today’s ruling is an important legal victory that finally brings Californians closer than ever to marriage equality in our state,” said Dumanis. “For those…
The Chairs of Mayors for the Freedom to Marry group – including Mayors Michael Bloomberg, Antonio Villaraigosa, Annise Parker, and San Diego’s Jerry Sanders — have pledged their support for ending same-sex marriage discrimination and have applauded the 9th circuit ruling that has deemed Proposition 8 as unconstitutional. More than 130 bipartisan mayors across the…
BY STAMPP CORBIN Publisher, LGBTweekly.com Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Prop 8 was voted into law in 2008 and established in the California Constitution that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. The ruling does not mean same-sex couples can…
A U.S. appeals court made a monumental decision Tuesday that found that Proposition 8 – the discriminatory, anti-gay measure that banned same-sex marriage in California – is a violation of the U.S. constitution. In response to the ruling, the organization Freedom to Marry has dubbed the strike down of Proposition 8 as ‘powerful’ in that…
