Subject: Gay and Lesbian Relationships

• James Randal Ross (1926-2007)

  Legendary outlaws and dirty jokes aren't typically mentioned in the obituaries of Superior Court judges in OC, but as the panel of judges who censured him in 1998 could have told you, James Randal Ross was not a typical judge. Ross, who served as an Orange County Superior Court judge from 1983 to 1995, died of a heart attack at his Fullerton home on Monday. He was 80 years old. Somewhat ironically for someone who served as a judge, Ross will probably be best remembered for his relationship to

  March 8, 2007

• Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau Goes Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, GAY!

  Hello, young gay lovers, wherever you are. If you are heading toward the altar, the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau wants you! That is, they want you to get married in fabulous, homo-hatin', Laguna Beach-acceptin', Belmont Shores nearin', closeted-gay legislatin' Orange County. It's rainin' men, and they're all driving Lexuses! "With the recent ruling by the State of California's Supreme Court, we anticipate that many event locations and hotels throughout Anaheim/Orange Count

  September 5, 2008

• Prop 8: No Way in Hell Is This Over

  I spent my Election Night trying to find non-existent parking outside Hamburger Mary's in Long Beach. The celebration inside sure looked like fun, though, but I don't think I would have stuck around past midnight to watch all the tears turn from Obama joy to Prop 8 despair. Failing that, I instead drove up Cherry to another gay bar, Pistons, the local leather/bear hangout, to check out the scene - which really wasn't much, just a handful of guys shooting pool. I left when a couple of inebriates

  November 5, 2008

• The Purpose Driven Knife in the Back of Obama's Gay Supporters

  Perhaps for not going so hard on Barack Obama in last summer's Saddleback presidential forum, the Lake Forest mega-church's pastor, Rick Warren (right), will deliver the invocation at the president-elect's swearing-in ceremony Jan. 20, reports CNN. Warren did not make a public endorsement in the race, but his past views (and forum questions) were certainly slanted more toward  John McCain. And Warren did publicly support California's Proposition 8, commenting in Saddleback's October newslet

  December 17, 2008

• Is Rick Warren Outing His Tolerant Self of Just Bluffing?

  UPDATED WITH PASTOR WILEY DRAKE SAYING GOD WILL PUNISH RICK WARREN FOR PARTICIPATING IN OBAMA INAUGURATION (SEE THE VERY END).The choice of Rick Warren as Barack Obama's inaugural invocation giver has apparently so touched the leader of Lake Forest's Saddleback Church that he has become The Most Tolerant Pastor Ever!!!He posed for a photo that has his arm around an openly gay guy at the Out of the Closet thrift store in West Hollywood. He met with Melissa Etheridge, apologizing for the way

  December 23, 2008

• Honest Abe Lincoln Delays OC Participation in Same-Sex Marriage Stunt

  Tomorrow, same-sex couples throughout the country will go to their local county clerk counters and request marriage licenses as part of National Freedom to Marry Day. That won't happen in Orange County, however. The Old County Courthouse is closed due to Abraham Lincoln's birthday. This is ironic, given that everyone knows Lincoln was gay.And so, Orange County's participation in National Freedom to Marry Day moves to Friday, Feb. 13. The same Friday the 13th that sees the opening of the new Frid

  February 11, 2009

• Supremes' Prop. 8 Oral Arguments Generate Vigils, Viewing Parties, Rallies

  Okay, Prop. 8, supporters, be honest: Would you rather attend a party thrown by gays or straights? If you answered the latter, well, then, you haven't been to a party thrown by gays, have you? Think of all the collected knowledge of Martha Stewart, the Queer Eye guys and Chelsea Handler funneled into a single event, and you get an idea of what kind of fab do you'd be in for.  So, perhaps you should put away your hateful signs and come on out to Eve of Justice, which refers to the evening be

  March 3, 2009

• [Trendzilla] They Oughta be Band

  January 8, 2009

• Theatre Out's 'Small Domestic Acts,' Staging in Fullerton, Is a Small Step in the Right Direction

  June 26, 2008

• Eat, Drink and Be Gay Married! After 27 Years, One Couple Finally Has Its Big, Fat, Mexican Wedding

  June 19, 2008

• [Summer Guide] My Big Fat Gay Wedding

  June 12, 2008

• Hate Sells

  January 11, 2001

• Prop. 8 Upheld, But Previous Gay Marriages Remain Valid

  The California Supreme Court has announced its ruling on the challenge to the state's gay marriage ban: The voter-approved ban shall remain in place, but the 18,000 gay couples who were married before it took effect will not have their marriages invalidated. The decision was made by a 6-1 majority of the justices.More coverage to come. There's a protest planned for tonight in Santa Ana at the Old Orange County Courthouse (Sycamore and Civic Center), 6 p.m.

  May 26, 2009

• LGBT Groups Seek to Intervene in Prop. 8 Challenge

  This just in from the ACLU, which believes the action taken today will help a judge hearing a challenge of Prop. 8 understand the unequal rights inherent in the ballot initiative . . . SAN FRANCISCO -- Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today asked the U.S. District Court in San Francisco to allow Our Family Coalition, Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays to intervene in Pe

  July 8, 2009

• Proposition 8 Is Keeping Same-Sex Couples From Marrying, But It Has United OC's Gay Community

  November 19, 2009