Olson/Boies Prop 8 Challenge Team Has a New, Useful Website
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.
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.
Isobel White | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
If experiences in California are any measure, LGBT residents of Maine can expect higher levels of stress and depression and greater feelings of political alienation. So what can we do differently?
Fred Karger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The Mormon Church has been destroying lives, intimidating people and demonizing an entire class to solidify their base and raise millions and millions of dollars.
Isobel White | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
We and the other side can keep going back and forth, spending millions upon millions. Or we can actually create enough of a cultural shift that being anti-same sex marriage is no longer widely acceptable
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Nearly a hundred protesters assembled Wednesday outside the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, CA where President Obama hosted a Democratic Party ...
Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld the state's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage in a 6-1 decision; the ruling left intact the union of o...
Eyes and Ears Assignment Desk | Posted 06.26.2009 | Eyes & Ears
If you live near one of these events (see full list here) help be HuffPost's eyes.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The court says that because the effect of Proposition 8 is so "minor" we don't need to classify it as a revision and it can stand, as is, after a simple majority vote.
Brian Normoyle | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The voters of California sent another message that they want their leaders and legislators to do their jobs. The problem is the very system used to send this message is at least partially to blame for the state's problems.
Steven Shehori | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
The truth however, is that despite Prop 8, gay marriage has been embraced in California since that first studio exec flew business class out of the Earth's primordial goo four billion years ago.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
One might even argue that Schubert's selective use of religion as a weapon against a minority may itself be considered a violation of the AAPC Code of Ethic regarding religious intolerance.
Johnathan Wilber | Posted 05.06.2009 | Living
It's certainly a funny day to be a gay Iowan. When you leave the Midwest, you'd better be prepared to renounce your allegiance to your home state.
Evan Wolfson | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Unlike right-wing opponents of equality, who denounce and seek to punish courts for doing their job, I criticize only when they flinch or fail to do it.
Peter Scheer | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
Legitimacy, the most valuable asset of any court, is diminished by judicial secrecy and enhanced by openness. Justices of the US Supreme Court, take note.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
The single most important element of the Prop 8 supporter's argument is that the amendment represents the will of the majority of the California population.
Brian Crewe | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
To see people that I know and care about being treated like second-class citizens was something I was not prepared for; it's so contrary to the values with which I was raised.
Cleve Jones | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
By violating the Manchester Hyatt Boycott, President Clinton will be doing more than just dishonoring the hard work of labor unions and gay activists, he will be casting aside the groundwork we are laying for a national coalition for equal rights.
McClatchy | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The Mormon church has revealed in a campaign filing that the church spent nearly $190,000 to help pass Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that...
AP | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Here is the complete list of "Yes On Prop 8" donors. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A federal judge has denied a request to keep the names of donor...
Peter Scheer | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
By switching sides in the Supreme Court, the Attorney General ripped up his job description -- a political gambit that pleases his supporters but, ironically, only makes it harder for the Court to overturn Prop 8.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics
People who voted against marriage equality didn't think, "what's the stupidest most hateful thing I can vote for today?" Some of their criteria is wrong in my opinion, but it's better to look for agreement.
Gary Cohan | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
I have expressed my outrage at Rick Warren's elevation to the national stage. Yet, if the gay community has the courage to take a deep breath, there's another way of viewing this situation.
Paige Donner | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Chad Griffin, partner at Griffin:Schake, was just named one of the Top 20 People of The Year by the Advocate. Chad Griffin, the Advocate's Top 20 ...
Isobel White | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
One of the most cynical - and successful - claims made during the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign was that unless the proposition passed, our schoolchil...
Neil G. Giuliano | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media
Rather than serving as platforms for lies and inaccuracies, media outlets should be calling out anti-gay activists when they resort to defamation, lies, and rhetoric that promote homophobia.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 01.05.2010 | Los Angeles