Here are the five biggest stories from Gay News Watch over the last week: Federal judge in Prop 8 marriage trial is gay himself: QUICK LOOK: The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in... ...

Judge Vaughn Walker San Francisco Chronicle photo by Paul Chin Chief US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, who is hearing the Perry v. Schwarzenegger (Prop 8) case in San Francisco, is gay. San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross publicly revealed that in a Sunday column. But they weren’t exactly “outing” the judge. They write that it has been “the biggest open secret in the landmark trial”. They write: Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old jurist, appointed to the bench by President George ...

The way the far-right is handling Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn' Walker's "outing" is absolutely disgusting. Because they're not just coming out and saying that the Prop 8 federal trial judge's sexual orientation makes him biased. If they were, we'd almost have more respect. But instead, they're timorously putting the point out there, and using it as further "fuel" for their ridiculous claim that the trial has been stacked against them from the beginning, with Judge Walker being the reason why. Focus on the Family: As any reader of this blog already knows, I’ve criticized Walker’s handling of the case ...

The San Francisco Chronicle has published a story revealing to the general public an open secret that many of us have already known: Vaughn Walker, the federal judge conducting the federal trial into the unconstitutionality of Proposition 8 known as Perry v. Schwarznegger, is gay:The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old jurist, appointed ...

Do you notice anything similar between the two logos above? The bottom one was the official logo of ProtectMarriage.com, the proponents of Proposition 8, the state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in California, who are now the defendant-intervenors in the Perry v Schwarzenegger federal lawsuit going on before a 9th Circuit District Court Judge in San Francisco. The top one is the logo of Prop8TrialTracker.com, which has become one of themost heavily trafficked LGBT weblogs in the last week, since it is an excellent source for real-time information on the landmark trial on the unconstitutionality of Proposition 8.Last ...