Politics

The House of Representatives voted 303 to 115 late Thursday to approve a sweeping global AIDS relief bill that includes language repealing a 1993 U.S. immigration law that prohibits HIV-positive visitors from entering the country and bars most foreigners with HIV from obtaining legal immigrant status. Read the full story here: House Approves Repeal Of […]

Proposition 8 is the gay marriage ballot measure which will be voted on in November by Californians. If passed, it may nullify the California State Supreme Court ruling which legalized same sex marriage in the state.  Maybe…the problem is no one really knows what will happen.  I’ve discussed this with several people and there’s a

The upcoming November election is a critical one for the LGBT community. Besides making sure that a Republican does not get elected, LGBT Californians and their supporters need to turn out in force to defeat the Gay Marriage Ballot Measure, which would reverse the recent Supreme Court Ruling. If you aren’t registered to vote you

The California Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to hear a challenge to a ballot measure asking voters to ban same-sex marriage. Read the story HERE

Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) yesterday introduced an amendment that would have added the name of Jesse Helms to the title of the HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria bill that is before the Senate. Helms, who died eleven days ago, was the nation’s most vociferous foe of federal funding for HIV/AIDS programs from the epidemic’s beginning until

Same-sex couples from Wisconsin who marry in California can face nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine on returning home, CNN reported last Tuesday. Read the story HERE

After McCain told The New York Times in no uncertain terms last weekend that he opposes allowing gay couples to adopt children, his campaign lurched back to the center Tuesday with a clarifying statement saying that “he recognizes that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes” and he “believes that in

The right-wing American Family Association (AFA) announced a boycott of McDonald’s restaurants. According to AFA, McDonald’s is part of a giant gay agenda. Read the story here:  AFA Boycotts McDonalds For Gay Agenda

Those wacky, magic underwear Mormons are at it again…The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is asking California congregants to join the effort to amend that state’s constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. A letter sent to Mormon bishops and signed by church president Thomas S. Monson and

Gay rights activists asked California’s highest court Friday to keep off the November ballot a citizens’ initiative that would again ban same-sex marriage. Lawyers for Equality California filed a petition arguing that the proposed amendment to the California constitution should be invalidated because its impact was not made clear to the millions of voters who