Tag Archives: Proposition 8

Via the Los Angeles Times: California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked a federal court Thursday not to block Proposition 8, arguing that a resumption of same-sex marriages in the state before the federal challenge was resolved would put those unions in “legal limbo.” In written arguments filed late Thursday, Brown said permitting gays to marry before appeals in the case …

Kathy Griffin mentioned her mom’s Prop 8 activism last night on Letterman. (Via – Towleroad)

Although activists banned the media from their post-Meet In The Middle For Equality leadership summit so that new polling data didn’t “provide ammunition to opponents of same-sex marriage”, the results were published by the Bay Area Reporter yesterday. According to the latest survey, which was taken the first week of May, the “movable middle” on marriage equality is quite small …

Within hours of the murder of Dr. George Tiller, President Obama issued a statement calling the crime “heinous” and expressing “shock” and “outrage.” The president was equally quick to react to last week’s Prop 8 ruling. Wait, what?

At last night’s MTV Movie Awards, Jim Carrey did a cute bit while accepting his award for Best Comedy Performance. Referencing the “good-looking kid from Twilight,” Carrey said, “Mmm, mmm, mmm. Somebody please overturn Prop 8.”

From the folks who brought you The Defenders, which I posted yesterday. Hi-larry-us.

On The View yesterday, David Hyde Pierce talked about his still-legal California marriage and went off on the haters. “It’s like ‘Oh, great, we made the cut.'” The View has disabled comments on YouTube.

If I had a jillion dollars I’d run this during the evening news every night.

From In The Mo, a nice production clip of Tuesday’s rally in Los Angeles.

UNRELATED SHALLOWNESS: Takei’s voice is just ridiculously sexy.

Several dozen gay activists are occupying the San Diego County Clerk’s office, saying they won’t leave until they get a marriage license. The event, organized in response to the state Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to uphold the state’s gay marriage ban, began around noon at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego. Michael Anderson, 27, and Brian Baumgardner, 26, …

On her first morning guest hosting on Fox (of course) Carrie Prejean gloated about the Prop 8 ruling, saying that now that the Court has ruled, she’s “not the bad guy” anymore.

Schwarzenegger tells Jay Leno that Prop 8 will “eventually be overturned.” If only he hadn’t vetoed same-sex marriage those TWO times the legislature sent it to him. (Via – Towleroad)

The Courage Campaign and a coalition of other progressive groups will protest Barack Obama’s continuing silence on marriage equality when he appears at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser dinner tonight at the Beverly Hills Hilton. President Barack Obama, the most LGBT-friendly president in history, will be at the Beverly Hilton the evening of Wednesday, May 27th, for a DNC fundraiser. …

Two very well-known lawyers that once fought each other over the Bush-Gore election result have announced that they will join forces to file a federal challenge to yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling on Proposition 8. Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, who represented then-Vice President Al Gore in the contested election, have joined forces to tackle …

At yesterday’s Prop 8 protest in SF: San Francisco police arrested about 175 protesters who were part of a group that blocked a major intersection for hours today in response to the state Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Hundreds of people filled the intersection of Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue late this …

I shot this just as the march stepped off for Union Square, so folks were just getting their chants going. If you hang on to the end, you may spot a couple of Gotham celebrities.