Katie Couric Talks Gay Marriage, Proposition 8 and Homophobia with Ellen DeGeneres

In an interview with Katie Couric, Ellen DeGeneres spoke of how she felt we have grown to disrespect not just people but the world as a whole and until we start to do the latter then we can’t even begin to work on the former. In talking about what strides she felt had happened in [...]

Mental Health Experts Testifies That Prop 8 Is Harmful To Gays and Lesbians

Yesterday’s testimony at the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco saw Professor Ilan H. Meyer, an expert in mental health issues among gays, lesbians and bisexuals from Columbia University,  provide expert testimony. Called by the legal actig for the same sex couples who brought the case, this was a move was to try and prove [...]

Courage Campaign And Lambda Legal Give Up Fight To Repeal Proposition 8 in 2010

Both Courage Campaign and Lambda Legal of California and New York has announced that they will be temporarily halting their efforts to repeal Proposition 8 due to a lack of support. Put into law in California in November 2008 after 52% of voters approved it, Proposition 8 acted to amend the state constitution to redefine [...]

Californian Voters Don’t Want To see Proposition 8 Featuring On 2010 Ballots

A poll by the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California has revealed that over half of California votes do not want to see an initiative to overturn Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot. Polling 1500 registered voters between October 27th and November 3rd, the study was conducted by two of the most prominent [...]

Is Clinton’s Change Of Heart On Same Sex Marriage All A Little Too Late?

The move by Bill Clinton in 1996, as President of the United States, to allow a law called the  Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law which effectively made same sex marriage illegal pass effectively sent out a message that he was anti-gay marriage. And he was. However last week things changed in a big way when Clinton announced that he [...]

Teenage Daughters Emotional Wedding Speech Becomes Passionate Call For Repeal Of Prop 8

Most children are proud to see their parents getting married, and Chelsea Montgomery-Duban was no different. What differed from most weddings in California though was that this 16 year old wasn’t seeing her Mum and Dad getting married, but her Dad and Daddy instead. Speaking at the altar during the service, Chelsea spoke of how marriage [...]

Could We See Prop 8 Repealed In November 2010?

A coalition of Californians last week filed ballot language with the State of California for an initiative to repeal Proposition 8 and restore equal right for gay and lesbian couples in November 2010. Seeing it as a new period of hope for same sex couples who want to get married, John Henning, the Executive Director [...]