Anti-gay blogs have taken an innocent competition called "The Ultimate Wedding Contest" being held by Crate and Barrel to urge their readers to make sure only a straight couple wins. The contest is for people to choose their favorite couples story and the grand prize is a 100,000 dollar dream wedding. 18 other couples will also win prizes.Voting is open for a little over two weeks and with so many adorable same-sex couples like (Greg & Jon) and (Emily & Rachel) to choose from lets counter the anti-gay bias from some parts of ...

[Note: This twitter list (updated daily) shows the Twitter posts referenced in this article] The four plaintiffs in the Prop 8 suit, Paul Katami, Jeff Zarrillo, Kris Perry, and Sandy Stier made last-second preparations before entering the courthouse to testify about the suit on Monday. They have been followed by two Ivy League history professors who recounted the history of discrimination against gay people. AFER photo by Diana Walker A primary task of the Olson/Boies legal team at the San Francisco Prop 8 trial is to establish that LGBT people have faced discrimination, continue to face ...

See note on sources at the end of this post At Monday’s first day of the trail on a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the testimony of the suit’s four plaintiff’s was mostly unchallenged by defense attorneys. Only one of the plaintiffs, Paul Katami, was cross-examined. And in that cross-examination defense attorney Brian Raum mostly focused on two campaign ads that had been introduced by David Boies, partly to introduce the contention that the Prop. 8 campaign was motivated by anti-gay bias. But in Tuesday morning’s session, defense attorneys brought out the legal long knives ...

A "bias crime" is a crime perpetrated on the account of a persons sexual, gender, religious, ethnic or racial identity. ...

Flip's Wine Bar and Trattoria has found itself in a new battle after its owner Gail Vines a member of the Oklahoma City School Board voted twice to fire an openly gay teacher. The teacher Mr. Joe Quigley believes he wasn't fired for being gay, but for being an advocate on behalf of gay rights and supporting students efforts to start a gay-straight alliance.A court order has demanded an immediate reinstatement of Quigley because it believes bias was involved in his firing and the court determined he was qualified to remain a teacher. The school district has gone against ...

Sen Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on the Senate floor, speaking about hate crimes legislation, 11:43 AM: "We should not head down this road" An average LGBT couple, approaching certain avenues in an America where anti-gay bias is still a major problem, anytime of day in any state of the nation: "We should not head down this road." Please, U.S. Senate: Head down this reasoned, principled road! So that maybe someday we'll come to a place where LGBT people can tread down any road with less fear. **UPDATE: Senate Achieves Cloture on DoD Conference Report Including Hate Crimes Provision [HRC] WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today achieved ...

In the early 1980s, a crisis of unimagined proportions hit America. And while it was an American problem, that's not the way it was received or viewed by countless many. Because, ya see, this crisis happened to hit the gay community earliest and hardest. So bias being what it was (is?) in this nation, many of our fellow hetero citizens took the fact that they weren't being directly affected to mean that inaction and, in some cases, brute inhumanity, were the best ways to handle a newfound plague. It wasn't just the populace, either. On both a federal (Reagan) and local ...

Yes, Stand For Marriage Maine: Anti-gay bias certainly does have "everything to do with schools": **UPDATE: S4MM has now released their "everything to do with schools" ad. Go watch, while keeping Ms. Walker and her late son firmly in your mind: Video: Now they're using their own troops as 'teachers'?!? [G-A-Y] ...