This makes me very happy.  I wish Coretta Scott King had lived to see it.

"I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy." Coretta Scott King, cited in the Chicago Sun Times (1 April 1998).

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President Obama Affirms His Support For Same-Sex Marriage.

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And it's official:  DADT will be repealed in 60 days.  I'm a little surprised by just how pleased I am about this.

I wish Merewyn's dad was alive to roll his eyes about 'Women make good sergeants, gays do just fine in the military too, and what idiot thought they weren't there and doing a good job already?"  He was a senior master sergeant in the ( Read more... )

The Navy Says 'I Do' to Same-Sex Marriages. "Assuming [Don't Ask, Don't Tell] is lifted - it is slated to happen around the end of the year - the Navy believes it cannot legally bar same-sex weddings or civil unions from taking place in its facilities." (It is, of course, more complicated than that, but that'll do for a synopsis.) The opinion ( Read more... )

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I thought it was pretty bad when Missouri accidentally outlawed sex for a while in the mid-'90s.  (They were trying to ban certain types of sex and had no skill at placing commas.  And why is it no version of that sentence sounds quite clean?)   That's pretty bad, but it's entirely possible that a 2005 law to ban gay marriage in Texas may well have ( Read more... )

At least, if you read my LJ regularly and it hasn't chased you away yet, this probably will cheer you up: Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) promises to legalize gay marriage. A thousand thanks to Irishkate for linking to this in the first place!

Gacked from maygra: I couldn't nab the cool graphic for it but go here. Wait until the flash program draws the world map in a ribbon, then you can click on your rough area and pick a reason to contribute: hope, love, strength, health, or memory. For every candle lit, Bristol-Meyer Squibb will donate $1 to AIDS research, up to $100,000. They aren't ( Read more... )

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