Today the new federal guidelines on hospital visitation go in to effect, which means that no one can be legally denied access to even unconscious loved ones based on the genders or legal status of the relationship. At least in any hospital that received federal funds, which is most, if not all, of them ( Read more... )

I first became aware of Del Martin when she and Phyllis Lyon married recently in San Francisco, though I know I'd read about her before, when I read the queer history book "Out of the Past". She was a co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, and also of a number of organisations and shelters against domestic violence. I'm just taking a moment to be ( Read more... )