Despite the unconstitutionality of the statute, Louisiana continues to support an anti-sodomy law which has been on the books since the 1970s. This is especially troubling as allegations surfaced last year of actual enforcement of the law.
Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of Mozilla earlier this week, and as I already argued, the reason wasn't OKCupid. The reason was employees and contributors. His attempts to calm the situation were ham-handed at best and at worst, dismissive towards the people he was supposed to convince. Within a week he went from being…
Since news surfaced that Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's donated to Proposition 8 in California, the internet has been set ablaze, leading to boycotts, the boycotts stemming from those first boycotts, and Eich almost immediately stepping down as CEO. FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver took it upon himself to take a look…
Some people are just rotten to the core, and it appears that Frank Schubert is the goblin king of those subhumans. Schubert, a National Organization for Marriage and My Vomit strategist and a key figure in California's 2008 anti-same-sex-marriage initiative Prop 8, has set his sites on a new target: transgender…
A small potential obstacle between same-sex couples and a lifetime of marital bliss in the California sunshine ended was removed on Friday when a San Diego clerk announced that he would withdraw his legal bid to revive Proposition 8.
The sponsors of the rapidly-necrotizing Proposition 8 are learning a fairly painful lesson in not getting their way this weekend as they watch Californians gay marry each other up and down the land of happy cows and terrifying geological phenomena. Clearly not thrilled that the Supreme Court assured them that they…
As you have perhaps heard, Supreme Court has done something about gay marriage! This is a big deal, because for some reason a vocal group of heterosexuals have prevented gay people from getting married, even though us straights aren’t even using the dang institution for anything! Rude! After a rough week of…
Taste the rainbow, motherfuckers.
It was something of a bittersweet victory when the Supreme Court struck down DOMA and Prop 8 on Wednesday, because while it's wonderful that married same-sex couples will receive the same federal benefits of marriage as heterosexual couples, it's also presumably the end of the NOH8 campaign. Now reality stars will…
From DC to California, the gays and their friends are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Prop 8. It's a happy day, indeed.
Fire up your tear ducts, campers. After the SCOTUS effectively struck down California's Prop 8 this morning, Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo — the case's original plaintiffs — delivered a statement outside the Supreme Court that ended about as well as a live court case reaction statement could end: with a marriage…
Yesterday, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski became the third sitting Republican senator to publicly support marriage equality, in an eloquent op-ed that details her lunch with a lesbian couple whom she nominated as "Angels in Adoption":
Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States, known primarily for their taste in fine hats and awesome lady-collars, heard oral arguments on Hollingsworth v. Perry, which challenges the constitutionality of California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Today they heard oral arguments on United States v.…
In today's Tweet Beat, everyone hates Proposition 8, Sarah Silverman is mixing commerce and pleasure, and Cher provides you with some little-known facts about FDR.
Everyone knows someone who is gay, and today's Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8 will impact everyone, not least of all Chief Justice John Roberts, whose lesbian cousin is attending the hearing with her partner of four years.
The day before the Supreme Court starts hearing California's Prop 8 case, CNN/ORC International Poll delivers the news that more Americans support legal same-sex marriage and say they have a family member or close friend who is gay or lesbian.
This past Friday was the deadline to submit amicus briefs to the Supreme Court for their upcoming ruling on Prop 8, California's gay marriage ban. While noted comedian, talk show host and and vest with scarf-wearer Ellen DeGeneres did not submit a brief directly to the Supreme Court, she did post an open letter on her…
You know how I know you're gay? You keep fighting for the right to marry your same sex partner and for you and your children to have access to simple things like your spouse's health insurance.
As if we needed more reasons to bite off all our nails at the prospect of the Supreme Court taking on Prop. 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act early next year: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia got more than a tad defensive regarding some of his legal writings about homosexuality while speaking at Princeton…
