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…
A federal appeals court announced Tuesday that California’s Proposition 8 violates the legal rights of gay and lesbian couples. The ruling thereby clears the path for a future U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage as early as next year. The anti-gay organization ProtectMarriage has vowed to appeal the decision to a larger panel…
Photo Credit: Facebook.com/PrideFlag The Uptown Planners will collaborate on the Hillcrest Pride Flag project on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 6pm at the Joyce Beers Community Center on Vermont Street just north of University Avenue. Hillcrest residents and those in surrounding areas are invited to participate in the meeting to let the planners know that the…
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated Bruce A. Harris for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. If confirmed, Harris would be the first LGBT person and third African American to sit on the Supreme Court. Harris currently serves as mayor of the Borough of Chatham, an office to which he…
Last week, the Oscar nominations were announced, and nine movies are vying for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Why there are nine and not ten like last year and not five like there were every year for sixty years is a long and complicated story; it mostly involves a combination of preferential voting system…
I took a sabbatical for a few weeks so I wasn’t able to share two exhibition openings by two local gay artists. Luckily both shows are still up and both are in North Park so you can pay a visit next time you are in the neighborhood. In my first column of the year I…
Two gay Ohio men say they were arrested and jailed without their pants in what may be a slam against their sexual orientation. Steven Ondo and Jonathan Simcox are suing the city of Cleveland and its police force, asking for unspecified damages, in what they call anti-gay bias the Associated Press is reporting. Their claims…
A federal appeals court said Thursday that videotapes covering the historical Perry v. Brown tiral surrounding California’s Proposition 8 ruling would be kept private, thereby overturning a lower court decision that would have allowed the tapes to be released publicly. The announcement comes as a victory for supporters of Proposition 8, serving meanwhile a disappointment…
BY VICTOR HOFF In general, the history of queer cinema reads like a never-ending saga of homophobia: murderers (“Rope,” 1948), psychopaths (“The Fan,” 1980), both (“Cruising,” 1981), limp-wristed pansies (“Partners,” 1982), manic depressives (“The Children’s Hour,” 1961) and just about every other pathology one can evoke. Hollywood was unapologetic in its cruel depictions of…
