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Wednesday, July 23
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Source: Orange County Register , Los Angeles Times Laguna Beach, long a gay-friendly community, followed Los Angeles' lead as one of the first cities to reject a ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa approved a similar measure earlier this month, LA Times reports. If passed in November, Proposition 8 would limit marriage to heterosexual couples, legally prohibiting same-sex marriage. "I never doubted for a minute – a second – that anyone on this council would not support this," Councilmember Elizabeth Pearson told Orange County Register...
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Sunday, July 20
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Source: Newsweek King shooting Six months after he was shot in a classroom at E.O. Green Middle School in Oxnard, California, Newsweek devotes its cover story this week to the murder of 15-year-old Larry King by a classmate. The Newsweek story by Ramin Setoodeh adds more detail to the story that has been missing from the mostly local coverage given the story by Ventura County Star and Los Angeles Times . Setoodeh's report offers far more detail about King's schooldays and his homelife, but in doing so comes dangerously close to blaming King for his own murder. It's a danger that Newsweek...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: North County Times , Lambda Legal press release SAN DIEGO -- Three years after a jury awarded a pair of gay students $300,000 for harassment by their Poway High School classmates, school district attorneys were in court Friday asking a three-judge panel to overturn the verdict. The students who brought the suit were also on hand to watch as their attorneys argued that the jury's findings were proper. One of the issues before the state 4th District Court of Appeal, California's mid-level court, is whether the jury was given proper instructions before it decided in favor of Joseph...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: San Diego Union Tribune , Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO -- Before showing pride, the local gay community tried to exhibit a little muscle. Activists rallied at noon yesterday outside the Manchester Grand Hyatt, calling for a boycott of the downtown San Diego hotel. They are angry that owner Doug Manchester has contributed more than $100,000 toward a November ballot measure to make same-sex marriages illegal. Although they expressed outrage last week about the boycott and rally, opponents of gay marriage also immediately began using it in their fundraising appeals. On Tuesday, they sent a...
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Friday, July 18
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Dallas Morning News Scores of United Methodist Church ministers in California are putting their careers on the line in an open revolt against religious edicts that forbid them to conduct weddings for gay and lesbian couples, Los Angeles Times reports. The pastors could lose their jobs and clerical credentials in the church, the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. Ministers in Santa Monica, Claremont, Walnut Creek and other cities have already performed ceremonies for gays and lesbians or are planning to do so. In addition, 82 retired pastors in Northern...
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Friday, July 18
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Press Enterprise , Sacramento Bee In a finding that could foreshadow a difficult political battle for a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage, a new Field Poll says more California voters oppose Proposition 8 than favor it. By a 51% to 42% margin, voters appear ready to vote No on Proposition 8, the "Limit on marriage" constitutional amendment. The new poll, released today, is the first independent statewide measure of public opinion on the proposed constitutional ban since gay men and lesbians began marrying legally in California on June 16. It was...
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Monday, June 23
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune , Deseret News On the 39th anniversary of New York City's Stonewall Riots, which arguably launched the gay rights movement, their church is asking California Mormons to support a proposed constitutional amendment that would recognize only marriages between a man and a woman. The statement signed by from the top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) urges California church members to "do all you can" to support a constitutional amendment to recognize only marriages between a man and a woman. "Marriage between a man and a woman...
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Sunday, June 22
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , Louisville Courier Journal The proper role of gay and lesbian members and clergy in the Presbyterian Church (USA) has been a subject of contentious debate among church leaders every other year for the past three decades when they've met for their biennial rule-making body, the General Assembly. They've debated endlessly, but they just can't make up their mind. And while leaders of the church have debated, membership in the denomination has been dropping. The Louisville-based denomination suffered its worst annual membership decline...
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Saturday, June 21
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Source: Marin Independent Journal , Associated Press , San Diego Union Tribune Sara Taylor and Sherrie Holmes lined up along with other eager couples at the Marin County clerk's office Tuesday and got their license after 18 years together, but they waited until yesterday to get married Marin County issued licenses to Taylor and Holmes and to 34 other same-sex couples Tuesday. County employees also performed 14 same-sex weddings. But the Taylor-Holmes wedding held outside a county courts building yesterday became significant among the hundreds celebrated in California last week because it was...
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Saturday, June 21
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , Los Angeles Times CA marriage case SAN FRANCISCO -- Equal rights organizations today asked the California Supreme Court to block a November ballot initiative that would restore the state's ban on gay marriage, arguing that it was not drafted properly. In court papers filed with the state's high court, equal rights lawyers insist that backers of the ballot measure did not follow proper procedures for amending the California constitution. The measure would amend the state Constitution to limit marriage to a union between a man and...
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Friday, June 20
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Source: San Diego Union Tribune , Los Angeles Times , North County Times At least 14 employees in the San Diego County Clerk's Office raised religious objections to performing gay wedding ceremonies but were told by their boss they couldn't pick and choose between marriage applicants, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. Under the California Public Records Act, The San Diego Union-Tribune obtained e-mails from the clerk's office in which employees were told they would have to perform the ceremonies without discrimination or seek a reassignment within the department or the county. "It...
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Thursday, June 19
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Source: Sacramento Bee (multiple reports, see below) Sacramento -- A man linked to to a volatile feud at Lake Natoma last summer that killed a young man guilty was found guilty Wednesday of two misdemeanors, but the jury couldn't come to an agreement on a more serious hate-crimes charge filed against him, Sacramento Bee reports. A mistrial was declared on the hate-crime charges. Satender Singh died after a confrontation in July 2007 photo: via Sacramento Bee After more than four days of tense deliberations, the jury of seven women and five men could not agree on whether the defendant was involved...
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Wednesday, June 18
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Source: Contra Costa Times , San Francisco Chronicle MARTINEZ — Barbara Chambers has officiated more than 5,000 weddings as assistant clerk-recorder in Contra Costa County, but she broke out a highlighter Tuesday morning as a reminder of a significant change to the wording that she'd repeated so many times before, Contra Costa Times reports. As she read her boss' vows, the phrase "Spouses for life" jumped off the page covered in a bright yellow marker. "I didn't want to screw that one up," she said, laughing, moments before presiding over Contra Costa County's...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: Sacramento Bee , San Diego Union Tribune , Bakersfield Californian , Los Angeles Times Reports indicate only scattered protests in California today during the first full day when gay and lesbian couples could obtain marriage licenses from county clerks. In Sacramento, where anti-gay protests have sometimes become intense in the past several years, about two dozen protesters were massed across the street from Sacramento County Clerk's office on F Street, Sacramento Bee reports. They were separated by police stationed at every corner from about two dozen delighted celebrants with rainbow...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: Sacramento Bee , Stockton Record , San Diego Union Tribune , Oakland Tribune , Bakersfield Californian CA marriage case Cheers erupted from a crowd of about four dozen people outside the Sacramento County clerk's office each time the doors swung open this morning and another newly married couple emerged. At least 108 couples were expected to obtain marriage licenses at the office Tuesday, many of them same-sex couples, the Sacramento Bee reports. Kristin Maddox, 25, and her partner of nearly three years, Jennifer Terrazas, 24, both of Sacramento, were the first to apply for a marriage...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times , AFP "I now pronounce you spouses for life," said the rabbi. With those words and the marriage license they'd obtained moments before at the Beverly Hills courthouse, longtime partners Diane Olson and Robin Tyler became the first and only same-sex couple to celebrate their official and legal union yesterday in Los Angeles county. Up north in San Francisco at about the same moment, cheers filled City Hall shortly after 5 pm as longtime lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, partners for more than 50 years, began their second...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: Sacramento Bee , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News Opponents of marriage equality filed another legal attempt Monday to block future same-sex marriages in California, Sacramento Bee reports. A petition signed by what the Bee describes as "a handful of politicians from across the region" was filed with a Sacramento County judge. It questions the validity of new gender-neutral marriage licenses that clerks are now (as of 5 pm today) required to use for all marriages. Instead of "bride" and "groom," the new forms refer to "Party A" and "Party...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: seaQwa staff from multiple reports (see list below) CA marriage case When the first few marriages of lesbian and gay couples are celebrated in California today starting at just after 5 pm, the focus will turn, at least temporarily, from political, legal, business, and religious issues to simple stories of people. For most couples, of course, a paid wedding announcement in the local paper is the most publicity they want or that they can hope for, and it will soon enough be the same for gay and lesbian couples marrying in California. But for these first few days, at least, there is far more...
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Saturday, June 14
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Source: Washington Post , Christian Post , San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case Lesbian and gay couples will be able to get marriage licenses starting Tuesday from their local county clerk -- Monday evening in a few places -- but that doesn't mean they'll be able to formalize the union with a church wedding. Ministers at a few denominations, including some Unitarian churches, have eagerly embraced the new equality of the state's civil marriage laws. After the county clerk there halted all civil marriages in the county because of the Supreme Court decision mandating marriage equality...
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Friday, June 13
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Cybercast News Service via Crosswalk , Associated Press CA marriage case A conservative Christian legal group made a last ditch effort on Thursday to prevent the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Virginia-based Liberty Counsel asked a midlevel appeals court to temporarily prohibit county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning next week. Liberty noted in a news release that the Court of Appeal will regain jurisdiction when the Supreme Court ruling takes effect at 5 pm on June 16. "The Supreme Court decision directs the...
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Thursday, June 12
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , KGET-TV , Bakersfield Californian , KERO-TV Bakersfield, Cal. -- Whitney Weddell, a leader in the gay community in Bakersfield, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she anticipates a peaceful day at the clerk's office Tuesday when the office will have to start issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. Because the clerk's office is refusing to conduct wedding ceremonies, couples plan to get married outside the office at ceremonies officiated by a local minister. "We are going to obey the law. I have no idea what the opposition will do,...
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Tuesday, June 10
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Source: Oroville Mercury-Register , Pam's House Blend OROVILLE -- Another county in California is getting out of the wedding-ceremony business, but -- unlike a similar decision in Kern County -- officials in Butte County insist that the change is only about dollars and cents, not about politics or values. Butte County Clerk Candace Grubbs told the Oroville Mercury-Register that her office will stop performing civil ceremonies, but will gladly refer couples to people private sector who that perform the ceremonies. "We decided to not do any marriage ceremonies because of budget constraints...
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Tuesday, June 10
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CA marriage case New York -- The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and several other advocacy and legal groups are urging gay and lesbian couples who get married in California to avoid the temptation to file suits in their home states. In a statement entitled "Make Change, Not Lawsuits" [ pdf copy of full statement ], the groups say that any lawsuits filed as a result of the May California Supreme Court ruling should follow careful strategic objectives. The statement concludes that the most important immediate step for people who support marriage equality is to help defeat the November ballot initiative...
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Monday, June 09
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Source: KTLA-TV , Los Angeles Times , Salt Lake Tribune , Winnipeg Free Press , New America Media The mood was celebratory throughout North America this weekend as several LGBT Pride parades marched on the streets from Winnipeg, to Salt Lake City, to the biggest festival of all this weekend in West Hollywood. The celebration in Los Angeles was given added meaning since the state Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage last month. Estimates of the crowds lining Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood were as high as 175,000 people. They gathered to watch and cheer more than 125 entries...
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Saturday, June 07
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Source: Bakersfield Californian , Los Angeles Times , KGET-TV Bakersfield, Cal. -- The conservative county clerk in the dusty Central Valley city of Bakersfield has done everything she could to avoid complying with the May 15 ruling of the California Supreme Court that civil marriages in the state are a basic right that cannot be denied to lesbian or gay couples. That includes asking for help from a right-wing activist law group, the Bakersfield Californian reports. Kern County Auditor-Controller-County Clerk Ann Barnett instructed a lawyer on the county payroll to join a petition asking the court...
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Friday, June 06
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , BakersfieldNow , San Jose Mercury News , KGET-TV Local officials authorized to grant California marriage licenses can begin to issue them to lesbian or gay couples as early as 5 pm on June 16, the California Office of Vital Records said late yesterday. San Francisco officials had asked if they could begin issuing licenses at that time, when the state Supreme Court decision granting marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples takes effect. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said earlier this week he wanted to start marrying couples "the minute" the ruling...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: Gay City News , Advocate Gay literati were the stars in LA on May 29th as 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards -- affectionately known as the "Lammys" -- were held on in what is likely America's gayest two square miles -- West Hollywood. Twenty-one books received awards. Highlights include the LGBT anthology First Person Queer , edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press) and The IHOP Papers , by Ali Leibegott (Carroll & Graf) in the category of Women's Fiction. The award represents double triumph for Leibegott, who received a Publishing Triangle...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: SF Gate , New York Post , PR-Inside When George Takei -- best known for playing Sulu on "Star Trek" -- weds longtime boyfriend Brad Altman in September, his best man will be Walter Koenig, who played Chekhov on "Star Trek," and the matron of honor will be Nichelle Nichols, best known as Uhura. Leonard "Spock" Nimoy is also among the 200 invited guests. Takei and Altman plan to marry Sept. 14 in the Democracy Forum at the Japanese National Museum in Los Angeles. Takei, who had a recurring role on NBC's "Heroes" last year, and Altman plan to honeymoon...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Associated Press via IHT , Concord Monitor , Newsday CA marriage case The final hurdle to marriage ceremonies this month for gay and lesbian couples was cleared away today when the California Supreme Court rejected a bid to delay last month's ruling recognizing full marriage equality in the state. The Supreme Court says its ruling will be final at 5 pm on June 16. The justices were divided 4-3 on whether to rehear their earlier decision, the same split that unfolded when the gay marriage case was decided in May . The denial clears the way for gays and lesbians...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: Sacramento Bee , Associated Press CA marriage case California voters will have a chance to overturn the recent state Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage just five months from now. As expected, the secretary of state today certified a measure for the November ballot that would amend the constitution to define marriage as "between a man and a woman". Proponents of the measure submitted more than 1.1 million signatures to qualify for the general election ballot. Secretary of State Debra Bowen says a random check of signatures submitted by the measure's sponsors showed...
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