John Henning, producer of the documentary "Saving Marriage", is a practicing attorney and attended law school at the University of California, Berkeley. Henning co-founded Love Honor Cherish, the influential grassroots organization working to defeat Proposition 8, which would ban gay and lesbian couples from marrying in California. Before his legal career, John was a journalist and advertising copywriter.
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Posted October 2, 2008
| 02:11 PM (EST)
Well, it wasn't actually my neighbor. It was my friend's neighbor. My friend lives in the Castro, San Francisco's (and perhaps the nation's) premier gay neighborhood. Last week, he bumped into his neighbor, a woman in her 70s, and they got to chatting about gay...
In the recent saturation media coverage of California's Proposition 8 -- which would eliminate the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry in that state -- it's often overlooked that all the way across the country, in the state of Massachusetts, same-sex marriage is now legal and safe from...
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Posted September 26, 2008
| 05:00 PM (EST)
San Diego, and especially San Diego County, is ground zero for Proposition 8. The big churches that back the amendment are there, and a disproportionate number of the money and signatures gathered to place it on the ballot came from there.
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Posted September 24, 2008
| 01:35 PM (EST)
Jesse Helms, who died just this year, was a notoriously homophobic U.S. Senator from North Carolina. In his last couple of re-election bids, the polls always showed him losing to more liberal challengers. But he won anyway.
As of mid-September, supporters of California's Proposition 8 -- that is, the opponents of equal marriage rights -- had raised $16.6 million, versus the $11.1 million raised by the gay community to fight the initiative. And this, in a state that's home to Hollywood, which...
My three brothers and I were weaned on Star Trek reruns, and my parents also loved the show. Helping out on the flight deck was the square-jawed Mr. Sulu, played by actor George Takei.
Now, a generation later, the LA Independent reports that...
4 Comments | Posted October 7, 2008 | 01:33 PM (EST)