Answering the submission of more than 200,000 signatures to qualify Referendum 74 and challenge the state’s bipartisan marriage law this November, Washington United for Marriage (WUM) launched an online and general fund raising push to demonstrate the wide and deep support for gay and lesbian Washingtonians to marry the person they love. Taken together, WUM…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Gay rights activist Kevin Cathcart remembers keenly the day President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage. There sat Obama, who for years had frustrated many in the gay community by not supporting same-sex marriage, telling ABC’s Robin Roberts that conversations with his daughters and friends led him to change his…
The French Ministry of Health will no longer forbid the acceptance of blood and plasma donations from gay men, who have been thought to be higher risks for infecting the blood supply with the HIV virus. According to the English-language French newspaper, The Connexion, France will issue a similar policy to that of England, Wales…
The San Diego Democrats for Equality (SDDE) has announced their endorsements and other actions taken at a recent meeting. Among key highlights the club announced that it had rescinded its “acceptable” rating for Juan Vargas in Congressional District 51 due to “… his key role in blocking Sen. Kehoe’s bill to expand access to abortion…
LGBT Weekly social media reporter, Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, who is a veteran of the Iraq War and who is Puerto Rican, was likened to a feces-throwing monkey in a Twitter post from an account owned by the life partner of the leading San Diego mayoral candidate, City Councilman Carl DeMaio. The tweet in question contained a…
BY THOM SENZEE Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has pulled off a hard-fought squeaker of a win in the state where he grew up and where his father was once a popular governor. As one pundit put it, “Romney thought he wouldn’t have to spend more than thirty minutes or thirty dollars in Michigan,” but…
Politician of the Year: When Time magazine isn’t distracted by groups (“The Protester”) or gimmicks (“You”), it gives its Person of the Year award to the individual, left or right or wrong, who most moves the needle and dominates the narrative. In that spirit, I give the Politician of the Year Award to Councilman Carl…
End results in Iowa: Both former Pennsylvania senator, Rick Santorum and former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney captured just fewer than 25 percent of the votes – with Romney standing on a wafer-thin victory podium and Santorum standing at his side on a second place platform, awkwardly set only one-tenth of one percent shorter than the…
SACRAMENTO – Equality California has announced that it intends to sponsor a bill authored by Assemblymember Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) that will ensure state veterans benefits are not denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) veterans discharged from the military solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. Sacramento Valley Veterans…
One stage. Nine challengers. Forty million viewers. And the winner takes home a six-month national TV campaign, plus a $500 million advertising contract, and a chance to challenge the current champion – one-on-one. If that whets your appetite for a new cycle of America’s Next Top Model, I’m sorry to disappoint. It’s just the Republican…
