NEW FIELD POLL SHOWS 59% OF CALIFORNIANS SUPPORT FREEDOM TO MARRY Poll Shows Californians Now Favor Marriage Equality by 25% Margin San Francisco , 29 February 2012 ― Marriage Equality USA is thrilled that Californians now support the freedom to marry for lesbian and gay couples by a 59% – 34% margin, according to a [...]

Clarifies Judge’s Ability to Protect Best Interests of a Child SACRAMENTO – Senator Mark Leno today introduced legislation that reaffirms a family court judge’s ability to recognize parent-child relationships based on the evidence and what is in the best interests of the child. SB 1476 modernizes state law by giving courts the flexibility to protect [...]

Same-sex marriage is illegal in Texas and Judge Tonya Parker of Dallas County made the courageous decision to no longer marry couples until same-sex marriage is legal. “I do not perform them because it is not an equal application of the law. Period,” she asserted at a monthly meeting for the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas. [...]

“I’m proud to participate in this extraordinary campaign, to make this statement of protest against the treatment of LGBT Americans as second-class citizens…. Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Marin County, the home base for Gay U.S.A. the Movie. Members of Congress, from the US Senate and House of Representatives  were invited to show their support for the [...]

And then the Governor will sign Maryland’s Senate has just approved a Bill, by a 25-22 vote,  that will legalize same-sex marriage in the Sate. The Bill  narrowly cleared the House of Delegates last week. Now the measure moves on to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who has said he will sign it into law. Maryland [...]

 The Court finds that DOMA, as applied to Ms. Golinski, unconstitutional, – as applied to Ms. Golinski under the equal protection rule. by Melanie Nathan, February 22, 2012 U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, a federal judge ruled today in San Francisco, in favor of  lesbian Karen Golinski. The U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to [...]

Plaintiffs Ready to Defend Historic Victory as Anti-Marriage Proponents of Proposition 8 File Petition for Rehearing En Banc with Ninth Circuit San Francisco, CA – Today, anti-marriage forces asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its landmark ruling in Perry v. Brown upholding the historic August 2010 decision of [...]

“A little  bit long on Leviticus and a little short on Luke” Posted by Melanie Nathan “A boy who glanced at me – am I gay if he didn’t turn away?”  A child’s question to a counselor may soon be illegal if answered in Tennessee! STORY: Tenn. lawmakers advance ‘Don’t say gay’ bill The counselor, [...]

SB 1140 reinforces that no clergy member will be required to perform any marriage that is against his or her belief system. So maybe the religious right can stop whining about lesbian and gay civil rights to marriage equality. SACRAMENTO – Senator Mark Leno introduced legislation today that clarifies the religious freedom of clergy members [...]

Film and Discussion “I Do. Who Can’t?” – Featuring Kathy Levinson.  Kathy Levinson, former president and COO of E*Trade and the Co-Chair for the LGBT National Finance Committee for Obama will be a guest at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 07, 2012, to participate in a program that includes showing the  documentary ”I [...]