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Supreme Court rejects gay marriage block The U.S. Supreme Court turned down without comment a last-minute bid to block Massachusetts from giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples next week....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:21pm PDT
Call for National LGBT Groups to Denounce Homophobic AL-FATIHA CONDEMNS SEXUAL HUMILIATION OF IRAQI DETAINEES
CALLS FOR NATIONAL LGBT GROUPS TO DENOUNCE HOMOPHOBIC HUMAN RIGHTS
ABUSES...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:21pm PDT
"Christian" Fascists Rally for Hate in Seattle 
The ignorance, hatred, and bigotry of right-wing Christians was on full display in Seattle yesterday as several thousand of these assholes gathered together at Safeco field to call for a "Federal Marriage Amendment" banning same-sex marriage....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:41am PDT
What Marriage Means to Gays: All That Law Allows Others Homosexual couples lining up to wed in recent weeks have often faced the same simple question their heterosexual counterparts ask themselves, often after years together: why marry?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 4:32pm PDT
10/11: DC, Here We Come! The National Marriage Equality Express Help us keep the Constitution sacred. Come-out for equality on National Coming Out Day at the Marriage Equality/Don't Amend Rally in DC at the US Capitol!
When: October 11th, 2004 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Where: West Steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC
What: Rally for Marriage Equality with the Leaders of the Freedom to Marry Movement...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 12:00am PDT
New Legal Challenge To Mass. Gay Marriage Thirteen Massachusetts lawmakers filed suit with the state's highest court Tuesday claiming it did not have the power to legalize same-sex marriage....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 11:39pm PDT
Blood Tests For Gay Couples Planning To Wed Same-sex couples have begun filing into doctors' offices for health screenings, a requirement to marry in Massachusetts...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 12:01am PDT
GLAAD JOINS CLAIMING THE BLESSING TO SPONSOR "IT¹S ABOUT LOVE,"5/2 Event honors the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New
Hampshire Features celebrities Brooke Adams, Dr. Maya Angelou, Jane
Kaczmarek, Norman Lear, Tony Shalhoub, Dionne Warwick, Bradley Whitford...
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 11:30pm PDT
OREGON judge recognizes and halts gay marriages Oregon ruling, California bill, U-U polyamorists,
Day of Silence, queer events....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 10:10pm PDT
Queers Nationwide to Protest on Tax Day On April 15, activists for gay rights will be standing in front of post offices across the country to protest the discrimination in the tax code against same gender couples who cannot get married....
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 12:02am PDT
Anti-Gay Amendment Less Popular Among Conservatives Than Believed Pushing an anti-gay agenda may be less successful for Republicans than they had imagined. A new poll of white evangelical Christians shows that nearly half of the nation's fundamentalists do not support amending the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:48am PDT
4/21: National Day of Silence to Create Safe Schools Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 1:04am PDT
LGIRTF is now Immigration Equality The Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force has officially changed its
name to Immigration Equality...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 1:41pm PDT
U.S. straights becoming more tolerant Good news; plus SF events....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 8:03am PDT
NEW YORK lawsuit for equal rights In New York state, ACLU and NYCLU sue to get equal marriage rights for same-sex couples....
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 9:54am PDT
MASS. "compromise" splits voters 47-47 
Massachusetts "compromise" would amend state constitution to legalize same-sex civil unions while banning same-sex marriages. Only 47 percent support it, so far....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 8:21pm PDT
OREGON Republican Party leading anti-equality campaign 
Oregon's Republican Party takes leading role in movement against equal rights for same-sex couples.
+ info on Mass. and California. + comment....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 8:45am PDT
Oklahoma Backs Down, Issues Birth Certificate To Baby With Two Dads "The Health Department does not have authority to decide who gets a birth certificate or who is a legal parent," said Brian Chase, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal.
Within hours the department said it had begun issuing the birth certificates to same-gender couples in other states who adopt children in Oklahoma....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 12:12am PDT
Church Leaders Denounce Mass Gay Marriage Amendment In an open letter to coincide with the beginning of Easter Week and Passover 600 church leaders have called on Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to distance himself from attacks on same-sex marriage....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 11:54pm PDT
Transgenders, Families Gear Up to Lobby on Capitol Hill 
Transgender activists from all over America will converge on Capitol Hill, April 29-30 to lobby Congress for transgender inclusion in, and passage of hate crimes and employment rights legislation. Lobby Days 2004 is sponsored by the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC), the country's largest and most active organization advocating for the rights of transgender Americans at federal, state, and local levels....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 9:54pm PDT
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