::: The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to continue its ban on distribution of video from the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco, the Advocate reports. The court’s conservative majority voted to for an indefinite continuation of the ban that the court agreed to Monday, saying that a 9th-Circuit rule-making body had followed improper procedures when it allowed judges to permit cameras for some trials. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, who is hearing the Prop 8 case, had proposed last week distributing video of the trial after a delay to a YouTube channel. He also ruled that the video ...

Jayson Mattison, Jr (Photos supplied by friends to Baltimore Sun) At a of a West Baltimore church Wednesday morning, an overflow crowd spilled out of the sanctuary and into the vestibule for the funeral of Jason Mattison Jr., a gay 15-year-old killed last week in a brutal attack at his family’s home. “No one is truly gone if you carry them in your heart,” Starletta Jackson, principal of Jason’s high school, said at the funeral. “And Jason is a part of our heart. We all knew that Jason wanted to be a pediatrician. There was ...