LGBTQ news and entertainment
The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage thinks so highly of the Human Rights Campaign’s work with Facebook and their logo that they’ve had a great idea – copy it!
Wow. Original. Marketing fail….
As Jeremy Hooper at NOM Exposed points out, negative/hateful energy may not get the same embrace at the fight for equal rights…
Today, Freedom to Marry and OutServe-SLDN released a new video featuring three prominent straight allies in the military speaking out in support of gay and lesbian servicemembers and their spouses. The allies explain how they have seen their friends and co-workers hurt by the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the law that prohibits federal respect for marriages between legally married same-sex couples.
Included in this new video are Retired Rear Admiral Jamie Barnett, Army Major Mary Bergner, and former Congressman and Army Captain Patrick Murphy.
“What a tremendous day when ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was repealed,” Retired Rear Admiral Barnett says in the video. “The challenge now is not letting anybody think that it’s over. There’s still law that embeds discrimination.
From the folks at Google:
Google Hangouts is a unique technology allowing 10 people to be on a video call simultaneously.
We wanted to put Google +’s hangouts at the service of a greater cause – the most debated issue in France at the time: same-sex marriage.
We partnered with the association “Tous Unis Pour l’Egalité” and created the first social same-sex marriage.
We made it possible for French gay couples to get married in France via Hangout, with a Mayor from Belgium where same-sex marriage is law. The ceremony was witnessed online by family and friends and broadcasted live on YouTube for the whole world to see.
Since then, the law has passed in France. It’s now possible for same sex couples to marry in France. But we still have a long way to go as we take this initiative further than France.
If your country is still deliberating the Bill and the Law is not yet passed, please be in touch with us : mariage@tousunispourlegalite.com and we will marry you, from France, live on the Internet via Google Hangouts.
From the Advocate: A mayor in southwestern France refused to marry a gay couple Friday, defying the nation’s newly enacted marriage equality law. But the mayor would consider marrying two women, reports France’s English-language news source The Local.
Claude Binaud, the 77-year-old six-term mayor of Matha, reportedly told Bernard Rouhaud and his partner that he would not issue a marriage license to the couple.
“There’s no doubt, I will not marry them, not two boys,” Binaud told local daily paper Sud-Ouest. “I don’t find [gay marriage] normal. We’re touching on something central to society here — the family.”
But that concern for family is apparently what led the mayor to speculate that he might marry two women, if he were forced to do so.
“Two girls, I might have said yes, if my back was against the wall,” continued Binaud. “But that’s totally different — they can have children.”
Binaud suggested that a town councillor officiate at Rouhaud’s wedding August 3, reports The Local.
But that compromise might not be good enough for national authorities, as France’s interior minister, Manuel Valls, warned mayors last week that anyone refusing to marry same-sex couples will find themselves in violation of the new law, which took effect May 30. Valls was responding to reports that a mayor from another southwestern town had refused to officiate a gay couple’s wedding, and noted that state officials who refuse to marry same-sex couples could face up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 Euros for their discriminatory practice that’s at odds with nationwide law.
Counting down the days to a Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8, with just two weeks left before the end of the current term.
A new survey analyzes the effect that marriage equality has on opposite sex-couples.
And we have more national surveys on marriage, plus a look ahead to upcoming battleground states.
Not happening today. Next set of decisions will be released on Thursday, but folks are saying more likely we’ll see the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions handed down on Monday, June 24th, at this point.
On Friday, Rachel Maddow discussed the upcoming decisions from the Supreme Court regarding DOMA and Prop 8.
Her guest, SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein, shares his “informed opinion” on when the decisions may happen and where the decisions may land:
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In advance of a possible ruling coming this Monday from the Supreme Court on the fate of Prop 8, the American Foundation for Equal Rights has assembled a five minute “history” of this hideous law.
SCOTUS releases rulings on Mondays, and the 17th and the 24th are the last two Mondays left in this session.
Hopes are very high that all of the previous rulings from lower courts will be upheld and Prop 8 will be history soon, allowing marriage equality to resume in California.
On the small chance that SCOTUS does not strike the law down, activists plan to head back to the voters as recent polls show as much as 61% support for gay marriage in California now.
It’s happening, kids. No matter what. It’s happening.
Mark Maxwell and Tim Young of North Carolina are foster parents to four boys ranging in age from 13 to 24.
They are unable to jointly adopt the boys because despite being married in Washington, DC this year, the state of North Carolina prohibits adoption by same-sex couples.
Mark and Tim share their story of why marriage matters so much to their family.
The video is a joint project of Campaign for Southern Equality and Freedom to Marry.
Mark Maxwell and Tim Young of North Carolina are foster parents to four boys ranging in age from 12 to 23. They are unable to jointly adopt the boys because despite being married in Washington, DC this year, the state of North Carolina prohibits adoption by same-sex couples.
Mark and Tim share their story of why marriage matters so much to their family.