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Black Pastor Against Marriage Equality Admits Being Paid by NOM

Black clergy members decried President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage during a news conference on Friday as a betrayal of the black civil rights movement as they admitted limited financial ties to the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage. Rev. William Owens, founder and president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, held the conference standing along […]

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Chick-fil-A Still Working With Anti-Gay Groups

Reports are coming through that Chick-fil-A is continuing to actively raise money for anti-LGBT organizations like the Marriage and Family Foundation. The Advocate is reporting that Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy Tweeted a photo from an event raising funds for the anti-LGBT group on Tuesday – a day before LGBTweekly reported that the fast food chain

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Governor Signs Bill Ensuring Equal Access to Fertility Services for Same-Sex Couples

Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to ensure that women in same-sex relationships and single women can access fertility services on the same terms as women in different-sex relationships. AB 2356, authored by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner and co-sponsored by Equality California and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, allows women using known donors to

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Review of “The Campaign”

Although a comedy, The Campaign is a refreshingly candid assessment of the current political climate in the United States. Actually, the film is more than just candid. It is an unrelenting and scathing attack on the moral hypocrisy and financial corruption inherent in American political campaigns. If The Campaign weren’t a comedy it probably would never

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What Happens Next with Prop 8?

This Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court released the first list of cases it will hear this Term and AFER’s challenge to Prop. 8 is not on this week’s list The Justices meet nearly every week to determine the cases they will take up. The next time we could hear something is Monday, October 1 at

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Club Papi Fresno’s 1st Anniversary

Get ready CENTRAL VALLEY, cause we are bringing in some of our HOTTEST PAPI BOYZ to help us celebrate our 1 year Anniversary in Fresno @ The Express Nightclub. One year ago in September, CLUB PAPI came to Fresno for the very first time and packed the club with over 600 people. Saturday, September 29thDoors

YARA SOFIA! Appearing live at The Express! Miss Congeniality of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3 and Contestant of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

Yara Sofia – Live – This Friday @ The Express

EchaEchaEcha Pa’Lante with YARA SOFIA! Appearing live at The Express!Miss Congeniality of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 3 and Contestant of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Hosted by our resident queen The Diva Xof The Xotica Show. Also appearing…Alexis & Dragity Vayne TICKETS ON SALE AT: http://www.thefresnoexpress.com/ – click Events

Family Fest, Visalia’s Pride Event – Saturday!

Family Fest, Visalia’s Pride event, will be happening on Saturday, September 29th from 11-3:00pm at Mooney Grove Park. This is the fourth year of celebrating our community. We will have vendors, local groups and organizations, entertainment, games, raffles and more! As part of our events this year, and if we can find the participants, we

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Honoring the Bulldog Pride Fund Scholars

Please join us on Sept. 28th! Please join family, donors and friends in honoring the 2012-13 Bulldog Pride Fund scholars ­ TimeOut, Justin Kamimoto, Dausha Calhoun, Michelle Swift, and Leo Barajas ­ on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Jensen Library of the Smittcamp Alumni House. This academic year, $10,000

Supreme Court does not take up DOMA or Prop. 8… Yet

The Supreme Court on Tuesday omitted challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Prop. 8 case in its first listing of lower court decisions it will review in its new term.   The justices still could decide to review the Perry v. Brown case later this year. This means October 1 at 6:30 am our time