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28 Aug 19 : 31 | Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin passes away at 87 Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle for same-sex marriage, died Wednesday, just two months after she made history again by wedding her longtime partner in San Francisco City Hall. Ms. Martin, an author and... Source : Gay News Watch 27 hours ago |
27 Aug 02 : 57 | Gay delay: Why hasn't Conn. high court ruled on marriage? There are a bunch of reasons Connecticut's Supreme Court could be taking so long to decide a landmark gay marriage case, but politics isn't one of them. The high court heard oral arguments in Kerrigan & Mock, et al. v. Connecticut Department of Public Health back in May 2007, and... Source : Gay News Watch |
21 Aug 07 : 24 | Rove predicts gay marriage won't help GOP in 2008 For many voters, it's an article of faith that political consultant Karl Rove orchestrated the 2004 ballot fight over same-sex marriage to help push conservatives to the polls. In the process, the theory goes, those voters helped George W. Bush win reelection. Rove takes a somewhat different view.... Source : Gay News Watch |
21 Aug 02 : 01 | Utah author gives $1 mil for Calif. gay marriage ban When Bruce Bastian of Utah stood up last month at a San Francisco dinner and wrote a $1 million check for the campaign against Proposition 8, he made it clearer than ever that November's ballot fight over a ban on same-sex marriage won't be a California-only affair. Supporters of the... Source : Gay News Watch |
16 Aug 12 : 40 | Gay marriage foes try to reverse repeal of 1913 law The gay marriage fight in Massachusetts might not be over after all. Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state. Brian Camenker of the group Mass Resistance... Source : Gay News Watch |
20 Aug 17 : 02 | Majority backs changing civil unions to marriage in N.J. poll Most New Jerseyans support same sex marriage and an even greater percentage have no problem if the state joins Massachusetts and California in passing a same sex marriage law, according to a Zogby International poll conducted by Garden State Equality, a civil rights organization that advocates... Source : Gay News Watch |
17 Aug 23 : 54 | Only 8 finish 96-mile walk in Ariz. to promote gay rights Meg Sneed is a cancer survivor. She is also a lesbian. After spending three days walking to benefit breast-cancer research, she had an idea. What about a walk to raise awareness about marriage inequality? Last week, Sneed, 25, and seven other gay, lesbian and bisexual young people aged 19 to... Source : Gay News Watch |
12 Aug 15 : 51 | Backers of gay marriage ban drop ballot wording suit The state's official description of Proposition 8 on the November ballot will remain as is, a statement that the measure would eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry in California. Sponsors of the measure argued that the title and summary drafted by Attorney General Jerry Brown were... Source : Gay News Watch |
09 Aug 20 : 09 | McCain has overall advantage on gay marriage issue If there is a slow leftward trend with America's cultural hot-button issues,one place it has yet to make a dent is on the question of same-sex marriage. On questions about guns or abortion, there is arguably a political advantage for more liberal views and for Barack Obama in 11 different... Source : Gay News Watch |
08 Aug 17 : 35 | Judge upholds language change in Calif. gay marriage ballot When the state's voters decide Proposition 8 this fall, it appears they will check "yes" or "no" next to a ballot title that reads: "Eliminates the Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry." A Superior Court judge this morning rejected a suit filed by Prop. 8 proponents against the ballot title proposed... Source : Gay News Watch |
10 Aug 15 : 30 | 'Master of gay divorce' says the process can be tricky Sometimes the joy of gay marriage is followed by the pain of gay divorce, but Peter Zupcofska is there to help. In Boston, he has become known as "the master of gay divorce." And for a $25,000 retainer, he can lead couples through the intricacies of how to best break... Source : Gay News Watch |
10 Aug 11 : 39 | Five years later, Mass. gay marriages are non-event Nearly five years after Massachusett's Supreme Court ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, the battle that brought international attention and apocalyptic fears to the state is all but dead. Since the first marriages on May 17, 2004, more than 11,000 couples have tied the knot.... Source : Gay News Watch |
30 Jul 13 : 26 | Calif. gay marriage foes to sue over ballot wording Supporters of Proposition 8, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, said they would file suit today to block a change made by California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown to the language of the measure's ballot title and summary. Petitions circulated to qualify the initiative... Source : Gay News Watch |
30 Jul 12 : 58 | Mass. gov. ready to sign repeal of gay marriage limits In a major victory for advocates of same-sex marriage rights, the House voted by a wide margin yesterday to repeal a 95-year-old law that prevents gay and lesbian couples from most other states from marrying here, setting the stage for Massachusetts to join just one other state, California, in... Source : Gay News Watch |
15 Aug 18 : 54 | Oregon appeals court rejects challenge to D.P. law Oregonians won't vote this fall on the state's new domestic partnership law, which gives gay couples many of the same legal benefits of marriage, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit that sought to force a vote on the law, which... Source : Gay News Watch |
04 Aug 10 : 53 | Despite '04, Gay Republicans laud Bush on AIDS bill Politics really does make strange bedfellows. President Bush, who won reelection in 2004 largely by whipping up a furor among evangelical Christians over the specter of gay marriage (a Karl Rove strategy), today signed a bill expanding U.S. aid to combat global HIV/AIDS. The bill was named for the... Source : Gay News Watch |
29 Jul 01 : 45 | GOP congresswoman vows to fight Fla. marriage ban U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a House leader on gay issues, has pledged to fight Florida's proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage. "We have a big challenge ahead of us," Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, told members of the gay-oriented Miami Log Cabin Republicans club, which met Sunday night in Miami... Source : Gay News Watch |
11 Aug 11 : 14 | No victor, only spoils in war between the McGreeveys In the end, the whole gay thing didn't matter. Now that they're divorced, it is striking how little it mattered that Jim and Dina Matos McGreevey's marriage ended over a homosexual affair. Dina failed to get extra money because her husband cheated with a Golan instead of a Gail. And... Source : Gay News Watch |
08 Aug 11 : 37 | Boycott threatened over S.D. site of law school meet Organizations representing thousands of legal educators say they will boycott the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in January if it is held at a San Diego hotel owned by a foe of same-sex marriage. The groups made up of law professors and legal writing professionals have sent... Source : Gay News Watch |
