Edith “Edie” Windsor filed a petition in New York state Monday against the Defense of Marriage Act, a law was recently found unconstitutional in California and Massachusetts. The 83-year-old lesbian asked the state’s Supreme Court to review her case “thus bypassing a second round in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals,” the Huffington Post is…
Sitting down to talk with writer-director-executive producer (and one-time British boy-band singing sensation), David W. Ross, you get the sense that queer cinema has long since moved passed its awkward, self-conscious adolescent stage and morphed quite naturally into adulthood. I Do, the latest project from David, addresses one of the many by-products of DOMA, the…
MENLO PARK, Calif. (CNN) – Last weekend, Facebook, the 900-million-person social network, updated its marriage icons to include one for men who marry men and one for women who marry women. The changes took place automatically for many people. James Lazar, a 38-year-old Chicago man who is married to a man, updated his status because…
Q&A WITH BIG MIKE What would you call your reality show? MICHAEL BREITENSTEIN San Diego Yes, I would be on a reality show. The subject of the show would be My Gay Life. KIRK HINKLEMAN San Diego Yes, boring-ass suburbia. Straight and married with two children. BETH GALLAGHER Oceanside I…
A great deal has been made out of the fact that Brave is the first Pixar movie with a female protagonist. Since Disney has had female protagonists from the beginning – Snow White was released in 1939 – Pixar isn’t exactly breaking new ground. If anything, Brave is the first major American animated film with…
A New York state Senate candidate may lose the support of the Republican Party after local leaders learned she was married to a woman. Mike Long, New York Conservative Party Chairman, said the group would be reviewing her endorsement for a Senate seat in the Hudson Valley in light of her now-public same-sex marriage. “I…
Mary Cheney and her new wife, Heather Poe, are celebrating wedded bliss today following their nuptials that were exchanged in Washington, D.C. Friday. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, confirmed the news as they celebrated alongside their daughter. “Mary and Heather have been in a committed relationship for many years, and we are delighted that they…
Bob Garon, 63, a war veteran from Epsom, N.H., went head-to-head with presidential candidate Mitt Romney on same-sex marriage during friendly banter at a local diner, the Boston Globe is reporting. After asking the Republican candidate on whether or not he supports the repeal of New Hampshire’s same-sex marriage law, Romney said he did. The…
