With last week’s historic decisions from the Supreme Court on DOMA and Proposition 8 as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the Prop. 8 stay lifted, same-sex marriage is back in California. In addition, by ruling DOMA unconstitutional, the Court said the federal government will now recognize same-sex marriages in states where…
Mario Ortega (Her Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Candi Samples of the Imperial Court de San Diego) and husband James Hederer were legally married in a historic ceremony Wednesday. Although the couple’s nuptials did not represent the first same-sex union in the County since the repeal of Proposition 8, their wedding is the first legal marriage…
http://youtu.be/tXW3UAlfGcs Barbara Ann Michaels, known as ‘Jester of the Peace’, is a wedding officiant who specializes in unique, one-of-a-kind wedding ceremonies. In this video, Barbara weds Sharon and Eli, a lesbian couple throwing a vibrant rainbow themed wedding in Central Park! Watch the video!
DENVER, Colo. (KDVR/CNN) — A Lakewood gay couple is moving ahead with a discrimination complaint against a cake shop that refused to prepare their wedding cake. The Colorado attorney general’s office filed a formal complaint last week against Masterpiece Cakeshop on behalf of Charlie Craig and David Mullins. The complaint stems from an incident July…
MONTPELLIER, France – Wednesday, May 29, Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau from Montpellier will become the first gay couple to marry in France. Vincent, 40 and Boileau, 30, met 7 years ago through their love of music. Both are fans of singer Christophe Willem and were members of an online fan forum. Three of the ten…
(CNN) — CNN anchor Anderson Cooper played the groom in a surreal wedding scene send-off for Bill Hader’s Stefon character on the season finale of “Saturday Night Live.” Hader announced last week that he was leaving SNL after eight seasons to move to California and get more sleep, which meant his memorable characters were also…
Olympia, WA (KCPQ-CNN) — State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit Tuesday against Arlene’s Flowers and Gifts of Richland, Wash., for refusing to provide wedding flowers for a same-sex marriage ceremony. The Attorney General’s Office said that on March 1, Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers, refused to provide wedding flowers to…
We attended the Latino Film Festival media kickoff party Feb. 21 at Gang Kitchen in Downtown San Diego. We saw many familiar faces from the community and one that we recognized but couldn’t pinpoint from where. He started charging his phone behind us and then it hit us that it was Douglas Spain. He’s one…
SAN DIEGO – At its annual board meeting, A. Latham Staples, the founder of the Empowering Spirits Foundation (ESF), a national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced his resignation as president and CEO of the organization he started in 2008. Staples who will remain with ESF as Chairman of the Board…
(CNN) — Jim Scales and William Tasker have been a couple for 35 years, but only on Tuesday were they able to legally marry, thanks to Maryland’s new same-sex marriage law, which went into effect with the new year. Maryland was among three states this past November where voters approved laws allowing same-sex marriages. At…
