Yesterday the president said, "The urgency of the hour demands that we fight discrimination, whatever form it may come." He's said the same thing more times than I can count. Martin Luther King Jr. talked the talk. He also walked the walk.
As the sun set on the Bay Bridge behind him and the curtain dropped on the first week of the dramatic trial to challenge the constitutionality of the ...
The attorney representing the Prop 8 supporters in the federal case challenging Prop 8 filed two letters asking the judge not to allow TV cameras into the courtroom.
Those who make careers of raising and banking money by denying equal rights to others want to maintain total control over the media on the eve of the most historic civil rights case in at least a generation.
Few other issues whip the conservative media chattering class into a frenzy like the equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. This unprecedented federal legal challenge is unlikely to be any different.
American Foundation for Equal Rights -- the new organization sponsoring the federal legal challenge to Prop 8 -- just put up a new, clean, easy to navigate website.
On January 11th, a remarkable legal case opens in a San Francisco courtroom--on its way, it seems almost certain, to the Supreme Court. Perry v. Schwa...
The two powerhouse lawyers who fought each other all the way to the Supreme Court to decide whether Al Gore or George W. Bush would become president are at it again, but this time they're fighting on the same side to defend marriage equality
Canadian privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is prosecuting Facebook for giving members confusing and misleading information in its end user agreement.
We should recognize the sea change that the efforts of Ted Olson and David Boies on Prop 8 represent and capitalize upon them in our public advocacy efforts.
Not that long ago, gay marriage was a dependable wedge issue Republicans could use to keep its base in line. But now that wedge is clearly splintering.
The situation is really about whether the goal of marriage equality is seen as an incremental process leading to a positive resolution or, as with prior civil rights movements, seen as a fundamental constitutional issue.
AP: SAN FRANCISCO - A coalition of gay rights groups said Wednesday that a federal same-sex marriage lawsuit brought by two high-profile lawyers is p...
We wrote last night about how Ted Olson, George Bush's former Solicitor General (the guy who argues the administration's cases before the Supreme Cour...
So while court was not in session, Bert Fields, the attorney for Brad Grey during the Shandling v. Grey lawsuit, made a statement attacking Garry Shandling's testimony, and Shandling's attorney responds.
If there's one thing that moviegoers have made clear, it's that if Hollywood intends to green-light white papers from wonky think tanks and flesh them...