Saturday, August 18th The Party Starts at 8pm, Don’t Miss It! Want a great night out in a great club and want to get out of Fresno? No problem! Join us at Krazy J’s (formerly Halfy’s Pub) in Tulare as they graciously host a fundraiser for Gay Visalia. With a small cover charge of only […]
A Virginia man charged with shooting a security guard at the headquarters of a prominent conservative organization told the guard “words to the effect of ‘I don’t like your politics,’ ” according to an affidavit filed in the case on Thursday. The defendant, Floyd L. Corkins II, 28, appeared briefly in United States District Court here,
The Michigan assistant attorney general who lost his job after tormenting a gay student body president has been ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages, local news media reports. Andrew Shirvell was fired in 2010 after repeatedly harassing gay University of Michigan student Chris Armstrong via blog postings. He was even accused of stalking him — which
Congratulations! You met the love of your life, you made the big decision to get married, and now you’ve taken that gi-normous step together. Surviving the wedding planning process and the actual weekend of events is only Step 1 of the becoming-married process. Despite what your credit card statements may be telling you, the wedding
A security guard at the D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council, the ultraconservative anti-gay Christian lobbying group, was shot today by an unnamed gunman. “The police are investigating this incident,” FRC president Tony Perkins said in a statement. “Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. Our concern is for him and
MSNBC host Thomas Roberts is set to become the first openly gay news anchor to get married. The New York Observer reports: Mr. Roberts says his late-September wedding to Patrick Abner, of Merck Pharmaceuticals’ HIV/AIDS division, and his public persona as a gay man, are unlikely to hurt his career at MSNBC—not least because, unlike
A new documentary about a same-sex couple who got married in every state that would let them takes aim at marriage inequality After 24 years together, Pat Dwyer and Stephen Mosher decided it was about time they get married. It was 2010 and same-sex marriage was not yet legal in New York State, where they
Captain Joan Darrah, USN (ret) has written a letter to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell asking to be allowed to address the Republican Party platform committee in support of marriage equality and the freedom to marry when the committee meets in Tampa next week. She wants to explain to the platform committee how supporting marriage equality
1) With the release of the viral “It’s Time” marriage-equality PSA rending hearts across Australia and the world, we thought it might be time to collect some of the world’s best pro-gay-marriage videos. If these moving pieces doesn’t convince your friends to support marriage equality, we don’t know what to do for them. 2) Canada
The Democratic Party’s Platform Committee unanimously approved language expressing support for marriage equality at its meeting Saturday in Detroit, sending the proposal on for ratification at the national convention next month in Charlotte, N.C. A DNC source told The Advocate that the full committee accepted the language revealed on Thursday without controversy, and approved an amendment
