Thirty million dollars. That’s what consultants are estimating both sides could spend on Proposition 8, the November ballot initiative that would amend California’s constitution to ban marriage of same-sex couples. Rather than wasting money trying to stop loving couples from marrying (or having to fight for their right to do the same), here’s a rough […]
Publishing this early because of my vacation schedule; I’ll catch late-Friday news next week. The U.S. House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions held a hearing on workplace discrimination against transgender people, “the first ever hearing in Congress exclusively on transgender issues.” HRC has coverage here and here and here. Bilerico’s Alex Blaze has
Despite my earlier qualms, it looks like I will be online this week. I’m sitting here in the middle of King’s Canyon National Park in California, in the common room of the rustic John Muir Lodge, rough-hewn beams overhead, with six other people and their laptops, all taking advantage of the free WiFi. Gotta love
In my last post, I put up photos of California weddings with children in attendance because it was obvious to me that same-sex couples couldn’t until now follow the traditional order of marriage first, kids second. When parents marry, it of course affects their children. (See also our vlog from a couple of weeks back,
No locusts, either. Lots of great photos, though. Here are a few of some well known couples, plus (because we’re all about the kids here at Mombian) a few showing happy kids and their just-wed parents. Go read Karen Ocamb’s on-the-ground report over at Bilerico for more on some of these families and others. Del
Video of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, the first same-sex couple to marry legally in California, just after their ceremony in San Francisco. The video also features Mayor Gavin Newsom, who performed the ceremony. Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, also among the plaintiffs in the case that won same-sex couples the right to marry: More
A very happy wedding day to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who will marry today at 5:01 p.m. Pacific, after waiting over 50 years. Two other plaintiffs in the marriage case, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, who got the ball rolling for the lawsuit when they were denied a marriage license at the Beverly Hills
New York Gov. David A. Paterson has told all state agencies that marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions “should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union.” He failed, however, in his attempt to make all couples wearing Red Sox paraphernalia don pinstripes before being recognized, after a strongly worded memo
Two days ago, California became the second state to legalize marriage of same-sex couples. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the first legal marriages of same-sex couples in Massachusetts; the 54th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and the 18th anniversary of when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental
