December 30, 2008 – 7:50 am
Read the year in review:
If one single story dominated the gay news cycle this year, it would be the roller coaster saga of California marriage equality. Even if you feel that marriage is a bourgeois heterosexual institution in which you have no interest, it’s undeniable that gay marriage has become a flash point for civil [...]
December 24, 2008 – 11:47 am
He insists that when he opposed any redefinition of marriage, including a brother marrying a sister, or an adult marrying a child, he wasn’t comparing homosexuality to pedophilia and incest. True, he doesn’t so much compare them as put them in the same category. It’s a nuanced difference that, if understood properly, still won’t [...]
December 23, 2008 – 11:13 am
The whole story is too awful:
Hate crimes against gays increasing
Gay rights advocates note that hate crimes based on sexual orientation have increased nationwide as of late. There were 1,415 such crimes in 2006 and 1,460 in 2007, both times making up about 16 percent of the total, according to the FBI.
Avy Skolnik, [...]
December 23, 2008 – 12:13 am
From the BBC:
Pope Benedict XVI has said that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
He explained that defending God’s creation is not limited to saving the environment, but also protecting man from self-destruction.
The pope was delivering his end-of-year address to senior Vatican staff.
His words, later [...]
December 22, 2008 – 8:58 pm
The Courage Campaign collected these pictures of Californian’s, both gay and straight, asking that the 18,000 civil marriages that took place during the brief period when gay marriage was legal not be invalidated.
December 22, 2008 – 6:39 pm
Just weeks after gay marriage was banned in Arizona, civil marriage proponents in the state are looking to 2010. Some argue, however, that marriage simply isn’t politically viable in Arizona and that gays would have better legislative luck if they worked instead for civil unions. This is an important question for the marriage equality movement [...]
December 22, 2008 – 6:14 pm
U.S. News and World Report on Jerry Brown’s Prop 8 reversal:
Brown’s brief acknowledged that the state is facing a constitutional crisis. Every branch of government—including the governor, a majority of state legislators, and the state’s highest court—approves the rights of same-sex couples to marry, while a slim majority of voters have eliminated those rights. “We [...]
December 22, 2008 – 8:19 am
Katha Pollitt writes in today’s L.A. Times:
Warren doesn’t just oppose gay marriage, he’s compared it to incest and pedophilia. He doesn’t just want to ban abortion, he’s compared women who terminate pregnancies to Nazis and the pro-choice position to Holocaust denial. (Hmmm … If a fertilized egg is as precious as a born Jewish human [...]
December 21, 2008 – 8:34 pm
I’m not thrilled about Obama’s choice of Rick Warren as his inaugural pastor, however, I’m inclined to agree with Ryan Davis over at HuffPost:
After the passing of Prop 8, our community could have taken the high ground: candlelight vigils, community organizing by making a passionate, thoughtful case for our rights. We didn’t. We just yelled [...]
December 21, 2008 – 4:10 pm
Not that that makes her qualified to be appointed Senator of New York.
From Politico:
Answering questions from Politico through her spokesman, Kennedy said she supports gay marriage and Bush’s approval of an auto bailout. She opposed the war in Iraq and refused to say whether she will support the Democratic nominee for mayor of New [...]
