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Aiming to stake his claim to the tech-savvy young voters who helped elect President Obama, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, 41, today took to the new media to formally announce he’s running for governor – by directly addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters simultaneously via his site, Facebook and Twitter. Read the rest of story

Local activist Robin McGehee is interviewed in a very interesting article in the Bay Area Reporter: "On March 26, McGehee said that she and others had a call with Shorter and others from EQCA. The organization had wanted to check in to learn more about Meet in the Middle, and McGehee told the B.A.R. she

The audition tapes behind the National Organization For Marriage’s new anti-gay ad are being continuously posted, pulled and re-posted…here they are while they last…

**The audition tapes for this commercial were released April 8th, which showed that all those in the commercial were actors, but the National Organization For Marriage forced YouTube to pull those ads from the internet on April 9th…

While we in California await a decision from the Supreme Court which looks as though it will be another defeating blow to our movement, Vermont has become the 4th state in the nation to legalize same sex marriage. This, even after a veto by the state’s Governor. The legislature stepped in to overturn his veto.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state _ and first in the nation’s heartland _ to allow same-sex couples to wed. Iowa joins only Massachusetts and Connecticut in permitting same-sex marriage. For six months last year, California’s high court

(Stockholm) Sweden on Wednesday became the seventh country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. Following a five-hour debate in Parliament, the legislation was overwhelmingly passed on a 261 to 22 vote, with 16 abstentions. The new law will go into effect May 1, replacing a 1995 law that allowed civil partnerships. Click HERE to

The ballot measure war has begun. Earlier this month two Southern California students got approval to start collecting signatures for a measure which, if approved, would strike the word "marriage" from all California state laws, which would include heterosexual couples. A second ballot measure proposal was just approved for signature gathering. This measure, if passed,