The chair of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee said late this afternoon that the marriage equality bill may not make it out of the committee for a full vote. State Sen. Paul Sarlo said he would not bring up the bill in the Judiciary Committee he chairs unless enough votes exist to pass it on to the full Senate. The Bergen County Democrat said that, currently, the bill does not have sufficient support in the committee for a recommendation to the Senate. "Today, as I stand here, we do not have the votes in the Judiciary Committee," Sarlo said after he and Christie toured the Xanadu entertainment complex under construction in the Meadowlands. Full story...
The magic number is 216. Cross your fingers, kids.
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Scissor Sisters performed two nights at NYC's Bowery Ballroom this week where they debuted their (rumored to be) new single Fire.
"Openness about sexuality helps to destroy the foundation for prejudice and discrimination. One day there will be a big parliamentary apology to gay people for the oppression that was forced on them and the inequalities that were maintained in the law well beyond their use-by date.
Constance McMillen's school board in Mississippi yesterday filed a court brief claiming that her prom had been canceled to settle the "very explosive and disruptive issue" of their ban on same-sex dating.
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Westboro Baptist Church's freedom of speech case is coming up in the Supreme Court. Tonight the pundits on Hardball discussed whether Westboro "should be shut down.
Rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker showed Times Square what he thinks of staging a reality show episode around a critical LGBT rights issue.
The reconciled health care reform bill posted by the House is stripped of previously included provisions addressing LGBT concerns, such as the taxation of employee partner benefits.
The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court has ruled that the state may annul civil unions made in other jurisdictions.
Reichen Lehmkuhl appears in a new campaign from the Open Artist Movement along the lines of the NOH8 photo series.
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