QOM, Iran – Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an Islamic scholar based in Iran’s holy city of Qom, has said in a speech among his followers that homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, according to The Guardian. The Iranian cleric, who is entitled to issue juristic rulings according to the Sharia law, was condemning western lawmakers…
LAS VEGAS – Lambda Legal has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Nevada on behalf of eight same-sex couples challenging Nevada’s constitutional ban on marriage equality, which relegates them to only a second-class status. “Every day that same-sex couples in Nevada are denied marriage equality, the government sends a message that…
Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride,now playing at the Diversionary Theatre, weaves the tale of three people living in England in two different time periods. This is done in two acts with each scene alternating between 1958 and 2008. The characters names remain the same in both periods, and in some ways the subject matter is…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Kevin Kloosterman, a former Mormon bishop, said he “came out” last year — just not in the way that many people associate with coming out. “I came out and basically made a personal apology to (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) folks for really not understanding their issues, not…
WASHINGTON – Hard on the heels of Rick Santorum suspending his presidential campaign The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has announced its endorsement of Mitt Romney for president. NOM said it was making the endorsement to help focus social conservatives on the need to defeat President Obama in November. “We are proud to endorse Mitt…
The Iowa student who made national headlines for his impassioned speech to Iowa legislators on same-sex marriage will take his activism to a national level according to reports at The Huffington Post. Zach Wahls, whose YouTube video went viral as the most-watched political clip in 2011, will serve as c-chair for “The Outspoken Generation,” the…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Kirk Cameron could have joined the ranks of former TV heartthrobs who rode off into the sunset, reappearing only for the occasional reunion show or career-reviving role in a TV drama. Think Ricky Schroder or Scott Baio. But Cameron, known to millions of Americans as Mike Seaver on…
Seattle (CNN) — Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain is encouraging Catholics to gather signatures and sign petitions to overturn the state’s new gay marriage law. Greg Magnoni, communications director for the Archdiocese of Seattle, said, “This is an issue campaign. It is not a candidate campaign so we are allowed to participate in issue campaigns,…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Evangelical activist Michael Farris was not exactly surprised that Rick Santorum suspended his campaign on Tuesday. But that doesn’t mean that Farris, a longtime political organizer, knows what he’s supposed to do now. “Right now my choice is to sit on my hands and do nothing or to…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Despite long-term relationships, shared children and steadfastness to each other in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, same-sex couples like Heather McIver and Suzanne Lowe, Kelli Evans and Karen Wade, and J. Wesley Thompson and Trey Owen know that their commitments could be invalidated with…
