Fresno Stonewall Democrats will meet on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at Carrow’s Restaurant, 4280 N. Blackstone Avenue at Ashlan in Fresno. Dinner and Social 6:00 P.M. Meeting 7:00 P.M. This will be endorsement meeting where we will endorse the initiatives on the November 2 ballot. We will be discussing the court decision overturning Proposition 8. [...]
Speaking of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Rachel Maddow used her MSNBC show last night to issue a personal challenge to President Obama. In regard to three soldiers whose “military careers are being ended” because of DADT, Maddow said: “As we take our time winding down this policy that everyone says will be ending, as we shamble [...]
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and Morrison & Foerster LLP filed a request for a temporary restraining order yesterday on behalf of their client, Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, seeking to block the Air Force from discharging him under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The restraining order, filed in the United States District Court for the District [...]
As California’s LGBTQ population rejoices with the news of U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision today to lift the stay on enabling gay marriage in the state, reaction is flooding in from all areas of the gay rights advocacy spectrum. Below are some official statements: Equality California: “Today we are overjoyed, not only for all of [...]
A Hong Kong court began reviewing its first case pertaining to transgender marriage rights Monday after the government denied a local transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend, The San Jose Mercury News reports. The woman, identified only as “W” per court order, has undergone sex-reassignment surgery and changed all of her legal identification to [...]
Eugene/Springfield Pride is coming up this Saturday, August 14 at Alton Baker Park from 12 – 7 p.m., but when the Pride banners drop, the heat’s gonna get turned up when the 4th Annual Eugene Pride Hot Flash Celebration kicks off at City at Kowloon’s (2222 MLK Jr. Blvd.) from 7 – 11 p.m.! Come and [...]
UPDATE: Federal District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the temporary stay of his ruling that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional will be lifted, effective August 18th. Today’s order means that in less than one week, gay and lesbian couples can once again get married in California. This, of course, is ruling out the potentiality for [...]
That’s right, folks. Photographs of you lovely people reveling at last weekend’s Capitol Pride have been posted online. Visit the Just Out gallery now. Here’s looking at you. No, really.
In the federal Prop 8 trial (Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which the equality side just won!), “marriage defense” attorney Chuck Cooper argued that: “[T]he central purpose of marriage in virtually all societies and at all times has been to channel potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring stable unions to increase the likelihood that any offspring will be [...]
Sometimes, I wake up and for just a moment, I’m that person. That person who I used to be about 30 years ago. Shit. Was it that long ago? I was wild in college. I was smart, did well….but wild, yes. I studied my ass off during the week, but weekends? They were for letting all [...]
Since coming out I have spent hundreds of hours looking through the endless stream of Internet ads. The assumption that the woman of my dreams lives within a certain radius, within the bell curve of an age preference and is looking for me is truly a needle in a gaystack. Yet, I find myself cruising [...]
More and more older women are blooming into lesbians, according to a study cited on “The View†some days ago. In response to the queried, “Why?†one of the panelist’s theorized that men are leaving older women to cruise younger women, thereby leaving older women no choice but to turn gay. The lesbian in me is [...]
I pulled the GayMobile into a parking spot somewhere on the south side of Oklahoma City near Capitol Hill thinking I’d just hit the Starbucks for a nice Vanilla Frappuccino and head out to meet Gayborhood writer Paula Sophia Schonauer. I popped into Starbucks without popping a quarter into the meter and exited not two [...]
A friend of my partner Kelly told him he was recently at a relative’s wedding reception and not in the best of moods. But his already-stretched tolerance for the festivities was strained even further when he considered that he was celebrating an institution that was denied to him, at least in our state. How many [...]
One of the hardest things about coming out later in life, for me, was figuring out my lesbian identity. For a while, it was enough to tell the world that I was a lesbian. It was enough for me to acknowledge that I liked, loved, wanted to be with women. But the more I read, [...]
Okay, I admit it, I don’t much like the traditional western religions. Mainly because they don’t much like me. (For lack of space, I do not comment on Eastern and pagan religions.) Now, I do distinguish between the proclamations of the respective original prophets (at least Moses, and Jesus) and later teachings and preachings. So, let [...]
Author Jaye Maiman wrote seven Robin Miller mysteries for Naiad Press and then disappeared. I felt as though I’d been abandoned by a friend as I hunted for another character as complex as Robin Miller. I eventually discovered Kathryn V. Forrest’s Kate Delafield mysteries, but it wouldn’t keep me busy indefinitely. I always wondered what [...]
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