Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who has been called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century” has died at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82. The Los Angeles Times reported that, according to her son Pablo Conrad, the cause…
Washington (CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Two leading national anti-abortion organizations Thursday endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president. In backing the former Massachusetts governor and all but certain GOP presidential nominee, both National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List highlighted what they called Romney’s strong “pro-life” positions and criticized President…
(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…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The students featured in a video about being gay at Brigham Young University are not in obvious violation of the honor code, according to Carri Jenkins, an assistant to the president of BYU. Jenkins went on to say that for the video alone, the students would not be…
Maine anti-gay activists Paul Madore and Mike Heath have spawned a new campaign Tuesday called the “No Special Rights PAC” to include their first action called a “truth pledge.” The campaign follows on the heels of Pride Week at the University of Maine, aiming to denounce a November ballot imitative that would allow Maine residents…
Next month, voters in the state of North Carolina will decide on a constitutional amendment, dubbed Amendment One, that will either allow same-sex marriages in the state or define marriage as between a man and woman. As the amendment gains foothold in the state, its tangled legal language has sparked debate on its legal loopholes…
MOSCOW (CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have arrested two gay rights activists for breaching a new law that bans the “promotion of homosexuality” to minors, state news agency RIA Novosti reported Saturday. The two men were detained on Thursday after picketing against the law, which…
BUDAPEST – The Budapest Police Department has refused to grant permission for this year’s Budapest Pride march. This is not the first time the police have tried to prevent the march, and this year they again justified their decision to restrict freedom of assembly with the claim that it is impossible to redirect traffic to…
With all this talk about Proposition 8 and constitutionality over the past year, we can’t lose sight of the sibling issue calling for the repeal of federal laws that infringe on the rights of LGBT persons on the national stage. There are more than 1,000 statutory provisions in which marital status is a factor in…
