Tomorrow, Massachusetts lesgislators will meet in a Constitutional Convention to determine whether to send the issue of same-sex marriage to voters this November. If voters decide against it, then same-sex marriage in Massachusetts will be no more. No, marriage equality won’t officially end tomorrow in either case, but if it goes to the ballot, its […]
Beren DeMotier’s The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Marriage is a raucous, personal, touching look at the brief legalization of same-sex marriage in Multnomah County, Oregon in March 2004, and its impact on her and her family. She also writes with knowing humor about the ins and outs of lesbian motherhood. I have
With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, it’s appropriate that this week’s Family Voices interview is with gay dad Jeff, who lives in New York City with his partner John and their son Marcus. He talks of adopting from Cambodia, being active in his son’s school, incorporating multiple religious traditions into their lives, and more.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the remaining interracial marriage bans in 16 states in the U.S. I needn’t belabor the parallel between the struggle to end interracial-marriage bans and our current fight to legalize same-sex marriage—most readers here know it all too
The Point Foundation, the nation’s largest publicly-supported scholarship organization for LGBT students, last week announced its Point Scholars for 2007. Point Scholars receive financial support, leadership training, and mentoring from the Foundation after undergoing a rigorous selection process—in 2006, only 1% of applicants were chosen. The Foundation “[pays] particular attention to those students who have
LGBT-rights groups are opposing President Bush’s nomination of Dr. James Holsinger of Kentucky to the post of Surgeon General. Soulforce reports that the church Holsinger co-founded operates an “ex-gay” ministry. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force adds that he authored a 1991 paper titled “Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality,” which equates homosexuality with disease. Legislation
James C. Dobson, founder and chairman of the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family, broadcast and endorsed a sermon on his radio show in which the speaker asserted: “You know a society has been abandoned by God when it celebrates lesbian sex.” He then claimed that as a result of this abandonment, a major U.S.
If you could work with other bloggers to make a difference in one global cause over the next year, what would it be? What issues must a U.S. presidential candidate address in order to have any chance of winning your vote in 2008? The editors of BlogHer are asking women online to answer these questions.
Roundup is early this week to leave tomorrow clear for Blogging for LGBT Families Day. Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey found public tolerance for gay rights is at the highest point in three decades. 59 percent of Americans believe “homosexual relations between consenting adults” should be legal, 57 percent that it should be considered
Are opponents of same-sex marriage forcing same-sex families to pursue legal strategies that could be more damaging to the traditional conception of family than same-sex marriage itself? That’s the provocative thesis of Dale Carpenter at Independent Gay Forum. It’s worth a read, especially in light of my post Tuesday about families with more than two
