Tag Archives: marriage equality

– You’ve still got a few days to get tickets to Monday’s gigantic marriage equality fundraiser, Defying Inequality. Appearing: Jane Fonda, Keith Olbermann, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, Nathan Lane, the casts of many hit Broadways shows, and many more. – Will Ferrell’s smash one-man show about Dubya, You’re Welcome America, has recouped its investment in just a couple of weeks. …

Openly gay Minnesota Republican state Sen. Paul Koering is under fire for refusing to support same-sex marriage because the state has “more important” items on the agenda. Koering is getting a lot of understandable flack from his fellow gays and this, in part, is how his assistant is responding to complaining emails: I can testify all day long about how …

You can’t get married once, but any old hetero loon can get married 23 times. Throughout her life, she has been Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Street and Mrs. Smith. She was also Mrs. Moyer, Mrs. Massie and Mrs. McMillan. But the former Mrs. Berisford, Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Essex was born Linda Lou Taylor. She grew up in Alexandria, Ind., a …

Minnesota gay Republican state Sen. Paul Koering won’t support same-sex marriage. Because the state is too busy with important things. State Sen. Paul Koering, R-Fort Ripley, told KLKS on Friday that he will not vote for the Marriage and Family Protection Act, a bill that would make Minnesota’s marriage laws gender-neutral, allowing same-sex couples many of the rights currently denied …

Via press release from the HRC: Indiana’s Senate Republican Caucus voted this week not to consider a resolution that would have proposed amending the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. This vote means the amendment is unlikely to advance during this legislative session. The resolution would require approval by the Senate and House in …

The lovely Reese and Bianca had their perverted fabric-of-society-destroying gay “marriage” on All My Children yesterday. Millions of housewives watched, dabbed their eyes, and contemplated Sapphic love. And thought about equal rights for a full hour. What else has the LGBT movement done with that kind of power? Remember, we killed communism with McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.

Los Angeles City College is being sued for religious discrimination after a public speaking professor refused to allow a student to complete his speech in support of traditional marriage. The lawsuit also seeks to overturn university rules on offensive speech by students. A classroom dispute at Los Angeles City College in the emotional aftermath of Proposition 8 has given rise …

The whackjobs of America Forever took out full page ads in Salt Lake City’s newspapers yesterday denouncing the LGBT rights and marriage equality movements as cover to “validate homosexuality to the children.” They take particular aim at Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (a Mormon) who last week expressed support for civil unions in Utah. Note their use of an interracial gay …

I’d guess that of all states in the nation, West Virginia would be the last to have to worry about anything as modern as same-sex marriage. But the haters there are terrified anyway. Pam Spaulding points us to the above video, saying: This is sick, and it shows the desperation of the Right to begin its 2010 campaign in West …

Portugal’s prime minister Jose Socrates says that if his Socialist Party wins the election later this year, he intends to legislate for marriage equality. However Socrates will face fierce opposition from the Catholic Church. The leaders of the Catholic Church in Portugal have been accused of interfering in the political process after the country’s bishops said they would fight proposals …

Seven marriage equality protesters were arrested for criminal trespass at a sit-in at the Cook County Office of Vital Records in Chicago yesterday as hundreds more protested outside. Buddy Bell, Dale Fecker, Dan Ware, Danielle Karczewski, Jeff Graubart, Erica Chu, and Nick Ferrin had infiltrated into the Bureau shortly before the protest and when clerks refused to issue Bell and …

Defying Inequality, Broadway’s all-star benefit for marriage equality, plays the Gershwin Theater on Monday, February 23th. Appearing: Nathan Lane, Harvey Fierstein, Matt Alber, David Hyde Pierce, Cyndi Lauper, Judy Gold, Mary Testa, the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, Alison Janney, Douglas Carter Beane, Lynda Carter (!!!), Gavin Creel, Kerry Butler, and many many more. Among the numbers to be performed will …

The Maine Marriage Initiative has launched a website to help residents contact their legislators and complain about the coming vote on marriage equality. Note the perfect Aryan family depicted in their header. Maine Marriage Initiative was established with the goal of informing Maine people about the consequences of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Maine Marriage Initiative is a coalition of …

At the bottom of the Associated Press story I excerpted in the post below this one, readers are directed to three sites: On the Net: Marriage Equality USA: http://www.marriageequality.org Join the Impact: http://jointheimpact.com Family Research Council: http://www.frc.org Family Research Council? Really?

As part of Freedom To Marry day, hundreds of gay couples were turned away from New York City Hall this morning when they arrived to demand marriage certificates. Hundreds of same-sex couples seeking to wed were turned away from the city marriage bureau Thursday, part of a nationwide protest aimed at recent decisions restricting the right to marry to a …

“As a candidate for the Illinois Senate in 1996, a body in which Lincoln also served, Obama in his own hand supported the Marriage Resolution now on Freedom to Marry’s website. He said, “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” I believe Lincoln, with today’s understanding of who gay people are, would, too. And …

Months after a court struck down a domestic partners act because it was too similar to marriage, which their constitution holds is only for a man and a woman, the Hungarian government is trying again. The Hungarian Government has approved a new bill on registered partnerships. It replaces a previous law on registered partnership that was struck down by the …

As widely predicted, today eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced that she will run for governor of California in 2010. Whitman famously came out in support of Proposition 8 last fall, but tells the LA Times that she does support other LGBT right issues. Explaining her support for Proposition 8, the November measure that banned same-sex marriage, she called it a …

Here’s the video message our new Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand sent to the Human Rights Campaign’s shindig the other night. (Via – Towleroad)

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and others were seen at last night’s Grammy Awards wearing the white knot symbol of support for marriage equality. Grohl also sported the symbol at the MusiCares event the night before. Add Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl to the list of straight celebrities coming out to support gay marriage. The singer is one of the first …