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Thursday, August 21
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Source: Eugene Register Guard , Oregonian COOS BAY, Ore. -- They met in high school in Edmonds, Wash. when Kitzen Doyle was 14 and Jeni Branting was two years older. Jeni is the only person...
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Thursday, August 14
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Source: Eugene Register Guard , Just Out , Oregonian , Salem News (BRO press release) OR anti-gay initiatives A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an attempt to force a vote on Oregon's...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: Just Out blog Portland's gay newspaper, Just Out , reports on its blog that an anti-gay group has abandoned its effort to collect signatures for three initiatives that would have...
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Monday, June 09
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle Times OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Registered domestic partners in Washington gain dozens of new rights and responsibility at midnight Thursday, when the bulk of the...
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Wednesday, May 21
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Source: Oregonian , Court decision Oregon's second-highest court ruled today upheld a 2004 ballot measure that limits marriage to heterosexual couples. The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled...
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Sunday, May 18
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Vancouver Sun San Francisco's tourist industry is betting that gay marriage will lead to a boon in same-sex wedding and honeymoon packages, but another...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: Seattle Times , Seattle Post-Intelligencer CA marriage case Seattle -- Activists in Washington cheered Thursday's decision by California's highest court to grant full equality...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: (Salem) Today's Sunbeam , (Newark) Star-Ledger , Associated Press via USA Today , Washington Blade , Crosscut (Seattle) TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey on Friday became the third state...
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Monday, March 31
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KCTS9 will air the emotional documentary Inlaws & Outlaws tomorrow (Tuesday, April 1) at 10pm as part of the PBS station's 'About Us' local documentary series. See Qblog post: Drew Emery creates a film and a movement to promote it The film, which has been shown at dozens of small gatherings throughout the country, should get its widest distribution with the television broadcast. In the documentary, couples talk about love, commitment, and marriage. Its producer, Drew Emery, insisted that his documentary is not so much about gay marriage as it is about marriage. Just marriage, without...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Associated Press EAGLE, Idaho (AP) -- A cross-country move from New Jersey to this Boise suburb has cost a gay couple the company-sponsored health benefits they shared on the east coast...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: Salem Statesman-Journal by Todd Simmons Oregon voters may well face two issues this fall that many people probably think were resolved some time ago: the state's new anti-discrimination...
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Wednesday, March 19
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The excellent local blogger, Gay Curmudgeon , yesterday compiled a helpful, brief guide to Washington's recently extended domestic partnership law. If you are already in a DP you can expect to get notification about the changes to the rights and responsibilities for your Domestic Partnership both 60 days and 30 days prior to the law taking effect on June 12th 2008. Until either of those things happen, I've extracted this list from the Senate Bill Report for 2SHB 3104 for your enlightenment and edification. There is, of course, plenty of frustration on all sides about the state's slow...
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Tuesday, March 18
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Asheville, NC - The national gay & lesbian wedding resource, RainbowWeddingNetwork.com , has announced that the company will be producing Seattle's first-ever same-sex wedding expo. The event will also include the Same Love, Same Rights® Mobile...
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Sunday, March 16
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle Times Olympia, Wash. (AP) Call it the Seinfeld session: 60 days about nothing. With a few of the usual exceptions, such as budget battles and dealing with...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Governor Christine Gregoire is scheduled to sign the Domestic Partnership Expansion Bill [see Qnews summary ] in Olympia tomorrow ( Wednesday March 12th ). The signing ceremony, which is open to the public, will take place in the State Reception Room, on the third floor of the Legislative Building. Connie Watts, executive director of Equal Rights Washington called the bill "an incredible victory for Washingtonians." She explained, "This bill will provide over 160 new rights and responsibilities for domestic partners in Washington State. It is an important step in our work towards...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Rep. Jamie Pedersen (left) and Sen. Ed Murray urged attendees at a GSBA luncheon to talk to friends, neighbors, businesses, and churches about marriage equality seaQwa photo: Robin Evans Sen. Ed Murray (D-43) told a packed luncheon crowd at a GSBA meeting today that eventual passage of a marriage equality law in Washington is up to each of them and everyone in our community. "It rests with you," he said. "Go talk to businesses -- and not the ones that you know are friendly to our issues." He urged the gathered business people to talk especially to other businesses that don't...
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Thursday, November 15
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Filmmaker and activist Drew Emery, creator of the film Inlaws & Outlaws , this week sent out a graceful Thanksgiving-season email to the film's mailing list acknowledging all the people who have helped get the film screened throughout the country. So we give thanks to Pastor Dan Shelly of the Ravenna UMC who hosted the very first Hearts + Minds screening in May. He wanted everyone to know that his congregation was open and affirming. And the latest was Friday in Des Moines . Clare Elizabeth decided that if her church was going to become open and affirming, they needed to see the film. Thank...
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Thursday, September 20
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Roger Winters' response to "A Constitutional Tipping Point on Marriage" by Richard Land on September 12, 2007 published in the blog of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Land is head of the...
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