Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Socarides, who is now with the Media Matters affiliate Equality Matters, says that today’s move “will definitely help Obama with gay groups.” Understatement.

“When the definition of marriage has been put before the people, they have time and time again – from Maine to California – stood up in defense of the traditional family. President Obama’s refusal to defend a law that was overwhelmingly supported on both sides of the aisle and signed into law by a president of his own party is …

To the thunderous cheers of activists and allies, moments ago Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed his state’s civil unions bill into law. As he signed his name, Abercrombie announced that the measure is “the essence of ‘aloha’.” I’ll post video of the signing ceremony shortly.

Maryland’s marriage equality bill survived a number of amendment attempts today to pass 25-22 in a preliminary vote in the Senate. The final vote will take place tomorrow. The Washington Post reports: Measures were defeated that sought to allow religiously affiliated adoption agencies to refuse services to same-sex couples, to allow clerks of courts to refuse to conduct marriages based …

Prospective 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has slammed President Obama’s decision on DOMA, saying that dirty queers are behind the nation’s crisis of deadbeat dads. Or something. “I’m deeply disappointed,” Huckabee said. “They are clearly out of sync with the public.” Huckabee noted that 33 states have affirmed, via ballot initiatives, that marriage should be between a man and …

Judging by a flurry of tweets I’m seeing, it appears that there will be a DOMA-related “celebration of love” at Market & Castro at 5PM today. If you attend, please tweet or email us your photos!

Clip description: The Gay Preacher: A small group of Christian radicals came to Auburn University screaming at the students about how the are living unholy lives and how they are all going to hell, the students decided to respond back to the radicals. I love that he quotes the scripture of RuPaul.

Another attempt to thwart civil rights in Iowa: County recorders would be prohibited from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and the Iowa Supreme Court would be unable to rule on the issue under a new bill sponsored by six conservative House Republicans. House File 330 specifically says that the Supreme Court shall not be able to prohibit or restrict …

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today vowed to introduce a bill to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. “My own belief is that when two people love each other and enter the contract of marriage, the Federal government should honor that. I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It was the wrong law then; it is the wrong law …