Class surprises lesbian teacher on wedding day

A group of San Francisco first-graders took an unusual field trip to City Hall on Friday to toss rose petals on their just-married lesbian teacher - putting the public school children at the center of a fierce election battle over the fate of same-sex marriage.

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New ad fights back against Prop 8 lies - will you help it get on the air?

60,000 people donated more than $25 million to write discrimination into the California Constitution.

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Prop 8 Supporters launch massive ad effort, gain ground among young people, poll says

The Prop 98 folks must be cool: they're on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and BlueChowder. And it looks like the pack of lies, half-truths and distortions they are using is making an impact on young voters.

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Matthew Shepard: 10 Years Later

Today is Oct. 12 2008. It has been ten years since the death of Matthew Shepard. A decade. I was fifteen years old when it happened, and I am positively sick at what's happened to this country since then.

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Graying Gay

In the next 25 years, as the proportion of seniors grows from 12 percent to 20 percent of the population, the number of LGBT seniors older than 65 is expected to grow from 2.

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The Heterosexual Privilege Checklist

A compilation of things heterosexuals take for granted every day.

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Are the Prop 8 folks backing away from their two most outrageous lies?

Are the Prop 8 folks backing away from their two most outrageous lies?

Look at the web sites run by the folks trying to write unfairness into California's state Constitution and you won't see their claim that defeating Prop 8 will mean that churches "may" lose their tax exempt status if they refuse to perform same gender marriages.

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Analysis: Connecticut Gay Marriage Ruling "groundbreaking in various respects"

Analysis: The ruling was groundbreaking in various respects. In addition to establishing Connecticut as the third state to sanction same-sex marriage, it was the first state high court ruling to hold that civil union statutes specifically violated the equal protection clause of a state constitution.

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The Longest Road: Being Both Lesbian and Transsexual

At the age of ten, I knew two things about myself. The first is, I was female. The second was that I was and am romantically and eventually sexually attracted to women.

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Across California, Pro-prop. 8 ads inundate TV

An excited young girl tells her mother that her teacher told her "I can marry a princess." A woman asks her friend whether she's willing "to eliminate rights and have our laws treat people differently.

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