The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – yesterday praised the ruling of Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that the videotapes of the trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown) should be made public.
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My gay son: the face of church’s lack of respect
I am a Catholic who voted against Proposition 8 in 2008 and contributed $1,000 to the No on 8 Campaign, a Catholic who is sustained by regular Mass, scripture and prayer. I am also the father of a gay son, from whom I was slow to learn how painful, debilitating and denigrating are the constant legal and social reminders that he and those like him are not fully accepted members of the human community.
Whoopi Goldberg Joins the Call for Marriage Equality in New York and Nationwide
The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – released the tenth video of the “New Yorkers for Marriage Equality” campaign. In the most recent video, which comes on the heels of oral argument in the appeal of California’s Proposition 8 case, actress and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg joins the cast of iconic New Yorkers in speaking up for marriage equality.
Hit Gay Film “Homewrecker” Stays Current With Repeal of Prop 8
The Producers of the Gay Indie Comedy “Homewrecker” Altered the Film to Show Support for Marriage Equality. Production Team Bruce and Paul Hart and Stars Dylan Vox and Rebekah Kochan Create “An Outrageous Gay Parody of Lifetime Original Movies.”
Proposition 8 Backers Move to Stop Gay Marriages
Backers of California’s Proposition 8 filed an emergency appeal on Friday with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals they hope will block a federal court ruling permitting same-sex marriage in the state.
California gay marriage ban overturned
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a California ban on same-sex marriages as unconstitutional, handing a key victory to gay rights advocates in a politically charged decision almost certain to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
Post-Prop 8, gay marriage winning support in California
New polls in California indicate public opinion on same-sex marriage may be shifting toward acceptance, and religion continues to play a large role in the change.
8: The Mormon Proposition
A searing indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.
ESF Applauds LDS Church
The Empowering Spirits Foundation (ESF), a national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today applauded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for endorsing the employment and housing non-discrimination acts now before the Salt Lake City City Council.
A Letter to the President from Joe Solmonese
This morning HRC President Joe Solmonese sent a letter to President Barack Obama responding to the administration’s brief that argues for the Defense of Marriage Act to be upheld in court.
Human Rights Campaign Statement on the Obama Administration’s Defense of the Defense of Marriage Act In the Smelt v. U.S. Case
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, issued a statement today regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a gay couple who married in California. Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer, who were married in California on July 10, 2008, filed a suit in federal court in December challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The Administration responded yesterday.
