Here’s a chance for a bit of fun activism: 2008 is the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day. In honor of the occasion, Teleflora is presenting “America’s Favorite Mom,” a weeklong contest airing on NBC in May. Finalists in five categories will appear on NBC’s Today Show the week before Mother’s Day, and in a prime-time
Four heroes in the news: Trans activist Jenn Burleton, founder and executive director of TransActive Education & Advocacy, a Portland, Oregon based organization that works with parents and schools to support transgender and gender-variant children. 18-year-old student Clyde Calloway, for helping to organize a Gay-Straight Alliance at his high school in rural Kentucky, despite threats
Logo has launched a public service announcement in response to last month’s hate-crime murder of 15-year-old gay student Lawrence King and other young hate-crime victims. The PSA seems aimed at young people. Many of Logo’s sister brands across MTV Networks will carry it, though Logo is making it available to other networks as well. The
The Family Equality Council (FEC) today launches Project Harmony, a new initiative designed to ensure “that the issues and concerns of families of color are part of the national dialogue on LGBTQ family equality.” “We are committed to building the most informed and effective national programs serving LGBTQ families of color and to fully integrating
The media-ally award of the week goes to Bloomberg’s Ann Woolner, who wrote the gleefully sarcastic If Gays Can Marry, I Just Might Cancel My Wedding. No new arguments here for those of us who’ve been following the marriage equality battle, but it’s always good to see another person make the case. Woolner is, of
A few stories from round and about: There have been lots of stories about yesterday’s California marriage hearing, but this one in the Pasadena Star-News quotes lesbian mom Erin Lindsay, who was also the first participant in my Family Voices series. (Stay tuned for more Family Voices coming soon.) The U.S. recently signed the Hague
The Washington Senate yesterday passed a measure to give registered same-sex domestic partners an expanded set of rights. The law would treat them as equal to opposite-sex spouses in a number of areas, including those related to probate and trusts, community property and homestead exemptions, guardianship, powers of attorney, and spousal testimony. Domestic partners of
Listen live via the SFGTV Web stream to the arguments in the historic California Supreme Court case for marriage equality.
I mentioned this in my Weekly Political Roundup, but it merits a post of its own. Here’s Ellen DeGeneres talking about the recent hate-crime murder of gay eighth-grader Lawrence King. She’s more political than I’ve ever seen her, despite her protestations that she’s not a political person, and seems honestly emotional. If only more celebrities
The Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute has partnered with the National Conference of Black Political Scientists to increase the numbers of gay black political leaders. The groups have created the Bayard Rustin Award, named for the openly gay, African American civil rights leader who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, to honor “outstanding contributions
