Judge Walker issued a stay a few minutes ago preventing new licenses from being issued. Oh well.

There's reportedly "an absolute scrum" at San Francisco City Hall right now with people trying to get marriage licenses. They're issuing them as fast as they can.

This year's census is like no other previous census. For the first time, the US government is counting people who consider themselves to be married as married, regardless of if they have a marriage certificate and regardless of if they are opposite or same sex. This could have a profound impact moving forward. But, why listen to me, when instead ( Read more... )

Out of Arkansas comes 10 year old Will Phillips who refused to stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance because of GLBT inequality.

I went to get a burrito tonight and came out to find my truck trapped by about 50 protesters at the corner of 18th and Castro.


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Using very similar tactics as the Yes on Prop 8 campaign in California last year, Maine has voted to repeal the same sex marriage law, handing GLBT folks another defeat.


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From the SF Examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-4107-Gay--Lesbian-Issues-Examiner~y2009m6d2-EXCLUSIVE--California-lesbian-couple-allege-discrimination-at-Fresno-hospital

California lesbian couple allege discrimination at Fresno hospital

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One of my mantras has always been that information wants to be free. I've always loved the book Fahrenheit 451 and found it ironic that a book that is often associated with censorship has been subject to censorship itself. Restricting information rarely works over the long term. Eventually it will get out. The question becomes do you want to ( Read more... )

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I went to the Austin Gay Rights protest today. There was about a 1000 people. I called my friends in New York City and San Francisco from the rally and talked to them at their respective rallys. I thought it was interesting that the protests were all coordinated so that they started at the same time across the United States.


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