Dronenburg San Diego County Clerk Ernest Dronenburg Jr. is back in the news, particularly with the LGBT community. Why? Many in the community have broken with District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis because she endorsed Dronenburg. Dronenburg asked the state Supreme Court to halt same-sex weddings after the federal court ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional. He said the…
At first I thought it was a joke when I heard that District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis had endorsed the re-election campaign of County Clerk Ernest Dronenburg, whose one-man effort to halt marriage equality in San Diego made ugly headlines last year. True, Dumanis has a tendency to endorse the candidates the Republican Party wants her…
LONDON — Jack’d, the fastest growing gay app in the world among young adult gay men, today released the findings of a community survey conducted amongst its users in the United Kingdom. With same-sex marriage to be legalized March 29 in England and Wales, Jack’d surveyed its community–80 percent of which are 18-30 years old–on their…
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – In partnership with acclaimed storytelling Web site Cowbird, Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) today announced Getting to “I Do”: Our Journeys to Marriage Equality, a project to collect and share multimedia-rich personal stories about relationships, family, marriage, advocacy, and equality as a means to educate and continue to change hearts and minds…
SHE4ME, the Marriage Equality PSA, has been officially selected to screen at Immaginaria A day of independent lesbian movies (Rebels, Lesbians, Eccentrics…”) at the International Women’s Film Festival in Rome, Italy May 31. The organizers of the event Screening the Girls, Lista Lesbica Italiana (LLI) and Fuori Salone delle Lesbiche/Lesbians Outhall n.4, were thrilled to…
WASHINGTON – Americans for Marriage Equality, a new bipartisan coalition formed with the help of the Human Rights Campaign, officially has launched with new resources that will provide up-to-the-minute information and analysis on national and state marriage equality cases, legislation, and other developments. A new daily Playbook-style email tipsheet called “A.M. Equality” will deliver a…
Today U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger ordered Tennessee state officials to recognize the out-of-state marriages of three same-sex couples during consideration of their lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s constitutional amendment banning their recognition. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Chad Griffin issued the following statement: “Yet another federal judge has recognized that bans on marriage equality don’t…
The progress of the LGBT community during the last five years, which also coincides with the election of President Obama, is unprecedented. While the so-called Arab Spring was a series of civil protests in Arab countries that led to the ouster of many Arab leaders, our LGBT Spring is kinder, gentler and quite effective. While…
Pornhub recently got together with Buzzfeed to bring you their latest porn statistics. According to Pornhub the majority of states with a high percentage of gay viewers is in the South, where gay marriage is illegal in all states. The South loves gay porn so much, that the percentage of gay viewers for every single…
Last night, the Human Rights Campaign made history as the first organization or business to take home three awards from the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Awards Ceremony. SXSW and its judges honored HRC as the 2013 leader of digital design and innovation with the awards for Best of Show, Digital Campaign of the Year…
