Tag Archives: California

Via the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News: Kevin L. Faulconer today became the first mayor of San Diego to hoist rainbow flags over the city’s historic Gaslamp Quarter. Faulconer, a moderate Republican who is one of the national chairs of the Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, kicked off the 40th anniversary of San Diego Pride at noon today …

Pretty much exactly as I predicted two hours ago.

Yesterday California Gov. Jerry Brown signed openly gay state Sen. Mark Leno’s bill which changes the wording in marriage statutes, replacing “husband” and “wife” with gender-neutral terms like “spouse.” The bill also removes limits on recognizing legal out-of-state same-sex marriages. Expect Tony Perkins to scream that it’s now a crime to say “husband and wife.”

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The above tweet and image comes from a Fox-11 Los Angeles photographer. Putting aside the hilariously and typically misspelled signs, the woman’s claims about diseases arise in no small part due to Fox News reporter Todd Starnes’ claims that the immigrant children are carrying infectious diseases and are covered with lice and scabies. A former nurse at the camp told …

Via CNN: Angry protesters forced three buses carrying undocumented immigrants to turn around Tuesday in Southern California. The immigrants had arrived in San Diego from south Texas and were on their way to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol station. Protesters chanting “USA!” “Impeach Obama!” and “Deport, Deport!” blocked their route. A heated yelling match ensued between the demonstrators …

“I am deeply saddened for the families we represent and for the thousands of children that our professional clients counsel, many of whom developed these unwanted attractions because of abuse of a pedophile. The minors we represent do not want to act on same-sex attractions, nor do they want to engage in such behavior. They are greatly benefiting from this …

The Liberty Counsel already lost twice at the Ninth Circuit Court and today they were slapped down for a third time by the Supreme Court. Their appeal was filed on behalf of NARTH and crackpot “ex-gay” brainwasher David Pickup. There will be some outraged sadz about this. UPDATE: The National Center for Lesbian Rights applauds. NCLR Legal Director Shannon Minter …

Via KTLA-5 in Los Angeles: A high-profile skin care expert tried to contact a white supremacist group to kill a business rival who was a “double minority, Mexican gay,” a sheriff’s detective testified in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday. Dawn Melody DaLuise, 55, appeared at Airport Courthouse for a preliminary hearing at which a judge determine there was enough evidence …

Chris Geidner has interviewed the filmmakers at Buzzfeed. The movie debuts at 9PM tonight on HBO.

According to an article in New York Times Magazine, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is considering a move to California when his term expires. “Perry told me that he loves California, vacations in San Diego annually, visits the state about six times a year and might even move here in January when he’s done with his 14-year stint running Texas,” writer …

Via press release: Top California and San Francisco officials, along with faith, LGBT and civil rights leaders, have signed an open letter to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, asking him to cancel his participation in an upcoming march and rally against civil marriage for same-sex couples. The June 19 event in Washington, D.C. is being organized by some of the …

Long Beach, California elected an openly gay mayor yesterday. Long Beach City Councilman Robert Garcia made history Tuesday night when he narrowly defeated businessman Damon Dunn in the race for mayor to become the first Latino, the first openly gay and the youngest person to be mayor of Long Beach. “I think you run, not necessarily to be the first, …

Considering her history, she’ll probably sue over the result.

As expected, homocon Carl DeMaio finished second in yesterday’s open US House primary in San Diego and will face incumbent Democratic Rep. Scott Peters in November. NOM endorsee Kirk Jorgensen finished a distant third. “Tonight’s win sends a national message to the Republican Party: San Diegans are fed up and frustrated,” DeMaio told supporters Tuesday. “We want the party to …

The campaign office of homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio was vandalized yesterday. NBC San Diego reports: Officers arrived at the office in the 9600 block of Black Mountain Road in Miramar around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. They discovered extensive vandalism, including smashed computer screens and cords and cables that had been cut. “Almost every cord inside the entire office – …

Via the Associated Press: Porn performers in California must wear condoms during film shoots and their employers must provide regular testing under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Tuesday. The bill, AB1576 by Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Compton, advanced to the Senate on a 41-12 vote, the minimum number of votes needed. The bill follows a similar mandate in …

A mentally ill 22 year-old college student in Santa Barbara, California is dead after killing six people in what police are calling “premeditated mass murder.”  The shooting spree came after the killer posted a chilling YouTube clip titled “Retribution” in which he declared himself to be a virgin and vowed to murder the women who had rejected him Gunfire erupted …

The California Assembly will today hear AB1576, a bill that mandates condom use in all porn productions statewide. A similar law was approved by Los Angeles County in 2012. The bill is sponsored by Assembly member Isadora Hall, who is a Baptist minister. Its chief proponent outside the legislature is the combative Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has made …