Good As You: Proposition 8 Roundup
03/04/2009
Committed to commitments: Brown tears 8 down
Since the only Crystal Ball we've ever seen in real life was a drunken drag queen in a to' up pair of see-through Barbie shoes, we can't predict what's going to happen in the California Supreme Court this Thursday. Though...
Photo: The greater weight is not always the greater weight
By this week's 'Ugly Betty,' we may know fate of ugly bias
Did you know that on Thursday, when the California Supreme Court hears arguments for and against overturning Proposition 8, that we might actually learn the outcome before day's end? It's true: The California Supreme Court may reveal Thursday whether it...03/03/2009
Video: Does The Message™ speak to you?
Equality California is gearing up for this Thursday's Prop 8 hearing by firing this commercial off onto California airwaves: Hmm. It's certainly relevant, with the attempt to capture the Milk zeitgeist. And it's certainly -- cool. But does it capture...CA legislature gives no props to 8
Dear Prop 8, Your state legislature would like you to please kindly leave California, ASAP. We appreciate your prompt cooperation on this matter of great historical import. Best, Good As You SACRAMENTO – The California Senate today passed Senate Resolution...03/02/2009
The gavel vs. the cross, the temple garments, the kippah, or prayer mat
Want an example of the problems that plague this country's same-sex marriage discussion? Well here, check out this little snippet from the AP and then we'll get back to ya: A broad spectrum of civil rights groups, including the NAACP,...02/25/2009
'Yes on 8': Never met a decent plea that they can't paint as evil
Just to remind you, this is what Dustin Lance Black said upon accepting his Oscar: Did you hear any Mormon Church "bashing"? Did you hear anyone referred to as "hateful bigots"? No, neither did we. That's because we, and presumably...02/17/2009
Hey Yes on 8: You may have started this conversation, but you don't get to put an end to it!
Rather than let the California Supreme Court's principled, measured, studied civil marriage ruling stand, the Yes on 8 crew forced not only the state, but also the entire nation to waste resources, time, and considerable finances ($80+ million! In this...02/15/2009
Prop 8: Give us mo' money to separate a 'mo from his honey
For the sole cause of hurting gay people, they've already managed to siphon 40+ million dollars out of citizens. But for the Yes on 8 campaign, that's not enough. For them, there exists a more, more, more scenario. What's that...02/13/2009
Stiffed on the Bill: Activist's Clinton cries go unheeded
Yesterday we told you how a coalition of organized labor and marriage equality supporters are asking Bill Clinton to cancel/move a weekend speech at San Diego's Manchester Grand Hyatt, because of owner Doug Manchester's contributions to the Prop 8 campaign....02/12/2009
Latter day education: When, why, and how do we proceed?
Those involved with the No on 8 campaign admit that they didn't know the full depth of the LDS church's anti-equality efforts until it was much to late. But could they have known more? Should they have known more? And...Rebooking Bill: Activists seek early checkout time for Clinton reservation
Years before Doug Manchester's Prop 8 donation came to light, yours truly stayed at San Diego's Manchester Grand Hotel. So as one of the hotel's former head-resters, I totally know how good their breakfast buffet is. It's a little pricey,...02/11/2009
The smart kid is not always the most popular
The majority of a class of second-graders can say that 10+10 = 19, but 20 will still be the right answer. A larger portion can support segregation, but the pro-intergration camps will be remembered as the heroes. Millions can give...02/10/2009
Debating 8: Starr twinkles some light on what arguments we might expect
One Kenneth Winston Starr was in Nashville today, explaining how, exactly, he plans to defend bias and majority tyranny when he defends Prop 8 in the Supreme Court. This from Baptist Press: "What is being argued before the California Supreme...Prop 8 is wrong, to the letter
People in love with both their country and their partners. Reasoned arguments stifled by irrational fear. Onward we push, refusing to be bullied into silence. Peacefully protesting wrongheaded decisions, rulings, or ballot initiatives. Only thing? Our principled stands are misrepresented...Equality in peril -- Equality in Apparel
The popular American Apparel clothing chain is now selling these fab new shirts: "Legalize Gay, Repeal Prop 8 Now." Not to be outdone, Prop 8 proponents are said to already be in talks with UnAmerican Appalling for a line befitting...02/05/2009
Video: 'Fidelity'
This video plays in beautifully to our earlier post about divorce and commitment. Check it out: We're a beautiful people. We will triumph over the fug bias. "Fidelity": Watch the video and sign our letter to the state Supreme Court...Wherein Ms. Mullarkey's words paint an even worse picture than before
On Tuesday we told you about Maureen Mullarkey, a New York artist who, despite her past work covering gay pride parades, the Daily News uncovered as being a Prop 8 supporter. Well now speaking to the Journal News, Ms. Mullarkey...02/04/2009
FOF, LDS: Who was bigger anti-M4M ATM?
In terms of who convinced more followers to donate more Prop 8 money, it's debatable if the LDS church or Focus of the Family had more reach. But just in terms of hard reported data, the stats are showing Dr....02/03/2009
Potential error correction gets date
We knew the Proposition 8 legal challenge would begin sometime in or around March. Now the California Supreme Court has made it official: The justices will hear oral arguments on Thursday, March 5, 2009. California Supreme Court to Hear Oral...Art intimidates life: 'Daily News' unearths load of Mullarkey
Art critic Garrit Henry, writing for Art In America, once said this about artist Maureen Mullarkey's work documenting the NYC gay pride parade: This delving into sexual politics seems a highly fashionable art-world strategy. You'd think the artist couldn't go...02/02/2009
Mormon's Prop 8 closet: Meet some new skeletons
Surprise, surprise: SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Mormon church officials say they spent $190,000 more supporting the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban than they previously reported. ... The report filed Friday with the secretary of state lists church leaders' travel expenses; $20,575 to use...01/30/2009
The CA donor fight: What's really going on here?
Yesterday we briefly told you that a federal judge has denied Prop 8 supporters in their bid to withhold disclosing anymore names and addresses of donors who gave money to pass the discriminatory measure: Judge: The donor rolls must go...01/29/2009
Judge: The donor rolls must go on
Good news for those tired of the Prop 8 supporters' "victim" claims: A federal judge today denied a request by supporters of Proposition 8 to withhold disclosing anymore names and addresses of donors who gave money to pass the state’s...01/26/2009
Parity Powwow: What went down?
Here in NYC, we froze our asses off and pondered what, exactly, senator-designate Kirsten Gillibrand will be able to do for us. But over in sunny Boxer/Feinstein-repped L.A., many of our gay rights counterparts spent their Saturday hunkered down at...Poll: Majority of our opponents have stopped listening altogether
And now in disturbingly closed-off marriage views news: A newly released survey suggests that more than 70% of those Californians who voted for the nasty and discriminatory Prop 8 wouldn't have changed their votes, no matter what we in the...01/23/2009
Curtains for Prop 8: 'Ave. Q' comments on nasty measure's lifespan
Up until recently, this was the finale number from the Broadway musical Avenue Q: But of course earlier this week, the "for now" listed at the 2:03 mark was sent packing. So what is a good, creative, puppet-based musical to...Taking Prop 8 to the Matt
Judging by our bloggy fellows, it seems that posting the following Op-Ed from Matt Foreman, former NGLTF executive director and current program director at the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, is the LGBT blogging requirement for the day. So...01/20/2009
If we move to Anaheim, we'll prob. have to look elsewhere for shrubs
Anaheim, California's Marina Landscape Inc. gave $15,000 in support of Proposition 8. But not happy with simply taking away our marriages, their company's staff is now sending us odd bits of rage in which they seem to connect Rick Warren...01/16/2009
Amicable developments
There have been so many anti-Prop 8 amicus briefs filed over the past few days, it's been hard to keep up. Seriously -- queer legal document fetishists need a smoke after the "friend of the court" orgy in which they've...01/15/2009
Chico and the ban
The Chico Peace and Justice Center, a nonprofit organization that had been offering its facilities and ordained ministers for the purposes of marriage, has announced that they will no longer be doing so. Why, the "I don't" to "I do,"...Video: Mormons and Prop 8: A taxing problem?
The annoying thing about videos like this one is that it's so easy for social conservatives to work the "religious freedom under attack" angle and have people buy into. It's also easy and more convenient for those who don't want...01/13/2009
Labor of love: 50+ unions stand up for ours
Good news for fans of weddings, organized labor, civil fairness, minority rights, and taking stands against tyranny. A massive coalition of labor unions are filing amicus briefs urging the CA Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8. This comes from Sacramento...01/08/2009
Well they've already altered one law, why not another?
The anti-gay side's latest attempt to stop the big, bad gays from "harassing" them? To completely change campaign finance law, natch: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys together with ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of...01/06/2009
To be brief: Prop 8 = wrong
It was a day of gay briefs yesterday in California. But don't get too excited, tightie whitie fans -- we don't mean it was a day of queer boys dancing around in their Calvin Klein skivvies. You'll have to go...01/02/2009
You can take away our rights -- but the takeaway message will benefit us!
Speaking about Prop 8 and the "pro-family" community's supposed "victory" in California, the anti-gay side's Ron Prentice asserts the following to Focus on the Family's CitizenLink: "California’s vote in favor of traditional marriage should give the silent majority comfort that...12/23/2008
United we could stand, but divided is what they've been working since fall
You know we gays are always accused of "hijacking" the African American civil rights movement? Yea, well check out this latest quip from major Prop 8 proponent Maggie Gallagher and tell us who is REALLY exploiting race here: "It's appalling...12/22/2008
Brown vs. the bored of (any pro-gay) education
Responding to the FANTASTIC news that California Attorney General Jerry Brown wants Proposition 8 tossed, Protect Marriage's Andrew Pugno has issued the following statement: "It is disappointing that the Attorney General has refused to defend the vote of the people...12/17/2008
Appealing 'Onion' might cause you to howl
Almost as monstrous as the actual Prop 8! But of course here in the real world, the only "full moon" with which the true measure hinged was the collective arse from which our opposition harvested and spewed every last bit...12/16/2008
Video: Mel-lisabeth hash it out
In the days following Prop 8's unreasoned passage, we became extremely pissed when Elisabeth Hasselbeck -- who in the past has been kind of okay on marriage equality matter -- started breaking out extremely flawed conservative talking points to justify...12/15/2008
PETA has (soy) beef with Prop 8
Depending on your animal rights-iness, you might disagree with their stances on consuming/wearing/making rugs out of flesh. However, we can't imagine that too many of even the most beef-noshing of gays are gonna have a problem with PETA's choice for...12/06/2008
Better than never. But woefully too late
On, the bitter irony. From May to November, we poured our little hearts out trying to show the public the ills of Proposition 8. We took to the air, to the web, to the streets, hoping to stop the horrid...12/04/2008
Goldberg's column doesn't make us say 'Whoopi!'
Here's the intro to a new piece from conservative writer Jonah Goldberg. Read it and then we'll get back to you: Did you catch the political ad in which two Jews ring the doorbell of a nice, working-class family? They...So then is it 'moral' for evangelicals to have gotten in bed with a 'cult'?
The Mormons and the evangelical Christians might have formed a cordial Proposition 8 alliance, but don't expect a sizable portion of the latter group to actually hold genuine respect for the former group's beliefs. To many of these "true Christians,"...Survey: Paper, both in diploma and currency form, leads to gay-friendliness
Those Californians who paid a lot of money so that their twentysomething selves could learn how to do keg stands, as well as those who have made a lot of money in the years since those drunken days of youth,...12/03/2008
Video: Prop Misérables
Not since Oklahoma has a musical so fully captured the spirit of a state: We see a Tony (who can't marry his partner Steve)! Neil Patrick Harris and Jack Black in Prop 8: The Musical [Towle] **UPDATE. 12/4: Some evangelicals...12/02/2008
Rolling Stone: 'No' campaign was exactly that
Go read this Rolling Stone article right now: "This was political malpractice," says a Democratic consultant who operates at the highest level of California politics. "They fucked this up, and it was painful to watch. They shouldn't be allowed to...Difficult audio: Anti-gays dance on equality's grave
On November 6, after Proposition 8's passage was confirmed, the "yes on 8" side held a webinar to discuss their unrighteous "victory." Today we heard the thing for the first time. [::writer pantomimes vomiting, then reels himself in before he...12/01/2008
Audio: Wait, why'd we lose again?
Whether it was due to being an apathetic activist with a massive case of gay marriage ennui, a Thanksgiving-bound vacationer who shut their brain off at the beginning of last week, or, simply, a Mac user, you might have missed...11/26/2008
Well our opponents do accuse us of being too PC...
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