California gubernatorial GOP front-runner Meg Whitman gave an interview to the Mercury News in which she was asked about some of her positions on gay rights: "Asked to reconcile her stance against same-sex marriage with her willingness to allow gays and lesbians to adopt children, Whitman said she believes the term 'marriage' should apply only to the union of a man and a woman. Still, she's in favor of granting equal rights to gay people through civil unions and domestic partnerships. And she approves letting gays adopt because 'many kids need a great home.'" ...

Race was focused on heavily following the Prop 8 loss in California. The AP has an interesting piece on the D.C. marriage equality battle and how Washington's black community led the charge on both sides:  "Over the past year, both sides have courted the support of Washington's black community, a majority of the city's 600,000 residents and one traditionally perceived as opposed to same-sex marriage. 'In D.C., outreach to African-Americans wasn't part of the campaign. It was the campaign,' said Michael Crawford, the leader of a pro-same-sex union group, D.C. For Marriage. Crawford, who is black, said other residents weren't ...

Catholic Charities in Washington D.C. has made its latest move in ensuring its homophobic policies remain intact as marriage equality laws are set to begin in the district: "Starting Tuesday, Catholic Charities will not offer benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees who are not already enrolled in the plan. A letter describing the change in health benefits was e-mailed to employees Monday, two days before same-sex marriage will become legal in the District. 'We looked at all the options and implications,' said the charity's president, Edward J. Orzechowski. 'This allows us to continue ...

If you've ever wondered why there are so many inauthenticities on eBay, perhaps you should look no further than the company's former head: Asked to reconcile her stance against same-sex marriage with her willingness to allow gays and lesbians to adopt children, [CA Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman] said she believes the term "marriage" should apply only to the union of a man and a woman. Still, she's in favor of granting equal rights to gay people through civil unions and domestic partnerships. And she approves letting gays adopt because "many kids need a great home." Meg Whitman holds forth on ...

Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler appeared on FOX5 late last week to discuss his opinion that the state could recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...(via good as you) ...

Sometimes it seems the greatest obstacle to same-sex marriage in our nation's capital has been those who claim to support the effort. It was an unnecessarily long and winding road to get here, and now that our happy day has... ...

North Carolina State Senator Jim Forrester (R-Gaston) has a history of anti-gay and anti-POC statements and actions. His first order of business for the past six years has been filing an amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He has made anti-gay and anti-black remarks such as:"Slick city lawyers and homosexual lobbies and African American lobbies are running Raleigh"A local chapter of the LGBT advocacy group Parents and Friends of Lesbians & Gays(PFLAG) wanted to have a face to face meeting with the senator but he is rejecting that invitation."I doubt I will go to the meeting, but I appreciate the ...

Self-appointed Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley clarified her remarks that gays should heed the Bible's warning that they'll be put to death: "On Thursday, the beauty queen and her publicist downplayed the comments, saying the biblical passage isn't something she or anyone else should take literally. However, it is still the basis for her beliefs against same-sex marriage."Earlier this week, the City of Beverly Hills disavowed any connection to Ashley, and said she's a fraud who lives in Pasadena. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video. ...

A new political PAC called Fight Back New York has set up shop. The group aims to strategically replace anti-equality NY senators who voted against same-sex marriage with pro-LGBT senators. The group is non partisan and will be targeting both democrats and republicans who voted against marriage.Sign up, donate, and tell friends to participate with Fight Back New York. ...

Federal judges in the Bay Area are revisiting the question of cameras in the courtroom, and the timing could affect the Prop 8 trial's closing arguments, the SF Chronicle reports:  "Despite a rebuff from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Bay Area's federal judges are again proposing to allow cameras in their courtrooms, a plan that could lead to telecasting of closing arguments in a suit challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage. The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has posted a rule change on its Web site that would allow its judges to take part in a pilot ...

Photo: Mac/Fame PicturesDespite causing anger all across America and on major sites and television networks, on her recent interview where she shared her strong Anti-Same sex marriage views, giving everyone the Carrie feel dejavu,  Laura Ashley, Miss Beverly Hills candidate seems ok and unworried by all the pains and anger that her views had caused all across America, as she shop her day away! Possibly Ashley should do a bible check on how to love other people as she loves herself!  Her anti gay views shouldn't be the platform or her bid for the title, how can she represent ...

Thursday’s Gay News Headlines: Theater Notes; Navy & Marines on DADT; Update from India; A Fundraiser for Gay Ugandan’s; Maryland same-sex marriage ruling; A ‘Cure gays’ psychiatrist reported; Is ABC Gay-baiting?… Head Shrink Watch: BBC News – ‘Cure gays’ psychiatrist reported to GMC — A psychiatrist and former advisor to Iris Robinson who claimed he could [...] ...

I'm en route to Providence, Rhode Island today to participate in a panel discussion entitled "Beyond Proposition 8: Race, Sexuality, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage" at Brown University on Thursday. ...

    ::: Maryland law allows for recognition of marriage licenses granted to gay or lesbian couples by other states or countries, the state’s attorney general ruled today, DC Agenda reports. The long-awaited opinion by Attorney General Doug Gansler does not automatically grant recognition to married same-sex couples, but clears the way for the legislature to pass a law recognizing the marriages. The opinion was issued in response to a formal request from Montgomery County Democratic Senator Richard Madaleno, an out gay legislator who has proposed a measure to allow same sex marriage ceremonies to be performed in Maryland, ...

A Buenos Aires court has given a gay Argentinean couple the green light to get married in what would be the second such marriage to occur in all of Latin America. From an AFP news brief posted this evening:A judge on Tuesday authorized two men to marry in Buenos Aires in what would be the country's second same-sex marriage.In December, two Argentine men, Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Bello, became the first homosexuals to legally marry in heavily Roman Catholic Latin America, after the governor of southernmost Tierra del Fuego province allowed them to wed in the provincial capital, ...

From (Fair & Balanced) Fox News: Carrie Prejean isn't the only beauty queen open to expressing her objection to same-sex marriage. Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is also speaking out in support of traditional nuptials. "The Bible say... ...

 Fundie beauty queens, same-sex church weddings and Gareth Thomas, oh my! BEVERLY HILLS: It appears that there’s more where fundamentalist California ex-beauty queen Carrie Prejean came from. Witness this outburst from Lauren Ashley, Miss Beverly Hills 2010: “The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman,” Ashley told FOX News. “In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white.” Meanwhile, that epitome of fundamentalist ‘chastity’ ...

"The pink mountain" is a new term to refer to the tallest mountain on Earth Mount Everest. The mountain which stretches to several border countries lies partly in Nepal which recently legalized same-sex marriage and is now building a gay tourist industry around offering same-sex marriages on the mount. ...

An attempt yesterday to force a vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage failed in the West Virginia House, the Charleston Gazette reports:  "GOP delegates unsuccessfully tried to force a floor vote on a bipartisan resolution (HJR5) called the 'Marriage Protection Amendment.' The proposal calls for a statewide referendum on whether to amend West Virginia's constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. This week, Republicans launched a push to make the House vote on measures they say Democrats have allowed to die in the legislative process. They want to do that by 'discharging' ...

You know that West Virginia anti-equality amendment that Jeremy Dys is comparing to Civil War secession, and that TV host Bray Carey likened to unions that might exist between a man or a pig or a a man marrying his sister (the latter of which he said is the "exact same thing" as a gay couple's union)? Yea, well -- today this awesome thing happened: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Democrats in the House of Delegates on Tuesday swiftly shot down Republican attempts to advance a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Gay-marriage ban fails in House [Charleston ...