Politics

The seventh circuit court of appeals in Illinois has ruled that the wearing of anti-gay t-shirts in school is okay. Students, protesting the Day Of Silence, an annual event which highlights the bullying of kids at school, wore shirts to school that proclaimed BE HAPPY NOT GAY, which was then changed to BE HAPPY BE […]

  Despite the urgings of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the Courage Campaign for an expedited trial in the appeal of the overturning of Proposition 8, the California Supreme Court has stated it will not move the hearings up from the current date of September of this year. The American Foundation for Equal

While those bringing Judge Walker’s historic judgment to appeal will be scrutinized by the California Supreme Court later this year, more California officials are standing behind the civil rights of LGBT Californians and pushing back hard against the continued injustices we face. After then Governor Schwarzenegger and then Attorney General Jerry Brown supported Walker’s decision

In the wake of the Obama Administration’s decision to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts, Senator Dianne Feinstein has committed to introducing a bill to repeal DOMA…   “My own belief is that when two people love each other and enter the contract of marriage, the Federal

  DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, suffered a major blow today when the Obama administration declared it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a portion of it in court. Section three of DOMA specifically limits marriage to one man and one woman, as it applies to federal law. Given that there are currently