The next step in the Prop 8 case has reared its ugly head, with the proponents of Prop 8 filing paperwork to have the Ninth Circuit reconsider the ruling by the three judge panel. The panel majority erred in breaking with the uniform and binding precedent upholding the constitutionality of laws adopting the traditional definition […]
California State University, Fresno and the West Virginia University are looking to get YOUR views on your relationship with your in-laws. Please view the flyer below and take a moment to complete their survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LGBTInlaws
I am living in a state that is flirting with the idea of writing discrimination into their constitution. Knowing in the back of my mind that thirty other states have voted to discriminate against same sex couples by defining marriage between one man and one woman, it is sometimes easy to look over the historic
Gay Central Valley will be hosting our first LGBT Health Fair on Saturday, March 24th from 10AM – 2PM. This year’s National Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Health Awareness Week is March 26-31, 2012. The Fresno County Dept. of Public Health will be attending and providing free HIV testing on site. The Health Fair will
Gay Central Valley and the San Francisco New Conservatory Theater Center brings “The Laramie Project – Ten Years Later” to Fresno for two performances, June 16th & 17th 2012. The play deals with the aftermath of the Matthew Shepard murder… Ten years after the brutal death of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, five
The recent birth control controversy gets an hilarious hit from Saturday Night Live…
Do NOT miss this amazing documentary documenting the struggle by the Lovings, an interracial couple in Virginia in the 1960’s, to overturn bans on interracial marriage. Listen to the case, the arguments and the eventual ruling, and notice how similar it all is to the struggle for LGBT marriage rights today. Preview – The Loving
The wave continues…The Maryland House has just passed a bill legalizing same sex marriage. Next is the Senate, which appears to be a slam dunk and then the Governor, who has vocally supported the legislation. The Maryland House of Delegates needed 71 votes to pass the bill. Whether the chamber had the requisite votes was
Last year the Obama administration caused a controversy when they announced they would no longer defend certain parts of the Defense Of Marriage Act in federal court, saying to do so would be unconstitutional. Now, in a similar move, the administration has declared it will no longer defend in court, laws which deny legally married
