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Same-Sex Marriage

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Rick Warren Weighs in On Weight Loss, Them Gay People

    Rick Warren sat down with ABC's Jake Tapper for "This Week With George Stephanopoulos". The pair discussed gay marriage, Tim Tebow and Rick's weight loss. "I was a purpose-driven eater," Warren said. Just when I thought we were headed for a non-humblebrag interview with Rick, he mentioned his mot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Gay High School Student Gets Apology From Assistant Principal Who Booted Him From Mr. Fullerton Pageant

    Kearian Giertz, the Fullerton Union High School student who was promptly pulled from the Mr. Fullerton pageant Tuesday night for supporting gay marriage, has received an apology from Assistant Principal Joe Abell. Giertz reportedly responded to the question "Where do you see yourself in 10 years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    'Thank Starbucks' Counters 'Dump Starbucks' In Battle Over Company's Support of Gay Marriage

    ​Last week, Dave reported on a movement bitterly brewed by the folks over at National Organization for Marriage (NOM). "Dump Starbucks" urges opponents of gay marriage to ditch the coffee chain because of its support of marriage equality for same-sex couples. Since launching around May 21, its onl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Starbucks CEO Smacks Down NOM Flunky; NOM Organizes Pointless Boycott

    ​Part of the problem with holding the required annual shareholders' meeting is having to talk to shareholders, as Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz found out yesterday. Shultz was taking questions after his presentation when a representative of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)--the people wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Student Claims OCC Professor Ken Hearlson Wrote "Gays are Racist" on White Board During Class

    ​Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban, was declared unconstitutional last week in a federal appeals court. But for one gay student, 18-year-old Ali Azarifar, the celebration quickly turned sour during a class at Orange Coast College.  Azarifar claims that political science p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Starbucks Supports Gay Marriage

    ​Even if their coffee's not really your thing, this might warm you up to the StarCorp. The company has come out in support of Washington State legislation that recognizes marriage equality for same-sex couples.Here's the letter sent out to nearly 150,000 employees: 

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Dream Team Assembled at UCI Law School Squeezes Boring Right Out of 2010-11 U.S. Supreme Court Term

    ​For the UC Irvine School of Law's first-ever Supreme Court Review Wednesday, the assembled panel was saddled with a reportedly "boring" 2010-2011 term. Fortunately, the legal all-stars who enlightened about 170 lunching students, lawyers and professors on campus (and an equal number watching the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    As State Supremes Vow to Rule on Prop 8 Backers' Standing, Tom Harman Tries to Make Matter Moot

    Presumably non-gay State Sen. Tom Harman​The California Supreme Court yesterday agreed to analyze whether Proposition 8 proponents have standing to appeal a federal judge's ruling that lifted the ban on same-sex marriages in the Golden State--a legal detour that could delay an appellate decision o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Prop. 8 Judge Married to ACLU Leader Refuses to Disqualify Himself

    ​If there's one group that so-called "family values" social conservatives love to hate more than gays, it's the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU. So there's more than a little bit of karma in the fact that Stephen Reinhardt, the judge expected to rule whether Prop. 8, which would deny gay c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Prop 8 Backer Blasts FCK H8 Video with Kids

    ​Are same-sex marriage proponents engaging in child abuse?Peter Sprigg, writing on the Family Research Council blog, thinks so--at least when it comes to the FCK H8 campaign's video on the next page.

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Prop 8 is Illegal Because All California Ballot Propositions are Illegal: Appellate Lawyer

    ​An appellate lawyer has filed a brief before the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco that argues same-sex-marriage banning Prop 8 should be struck down because all ballot propositions are illegal.As Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) put it in ... And Justice for All, "You're out of order! You're out of or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Gay Cameraman Sues Sacha Baron Cohen Over Prop 8 Riot in Bruno

    ​This time "Bruno" went too far, claims a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.Funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego and his crew assaulted a man at a Prop 8 rally, alleges the suit that seeks $25,000 in punitive damages and reimbursement for medical expenses and general damages.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Prop 8 Debate Devolves Into Gay Whac-A-Mole

    Happily tossing everything but the kitchen sink at gay citizens​Nothing drags out the vitriol like a discussion about homosexuality, and the ongoing debate over the constitutionality of anti-gay marriage Prop. 8 in California has driven sentiment to new lows.We know that here at the Weekly, where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Richard Nixon Library is g-a-y Gay!

    ​The Richard Nixon Presidential Museum and Library in Yorba Linda is gay, gay, gay.That's what New Yorkers must believe after recent pieces in their most venerable publications, The New Yorker and the New York Times.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    UPDATED: Prop 8 Judge: Same-Sex Weddings Can Resume ... on Wednesday

    Law.UCI.eduChemerinsky​UPDATE: The dean of the UCI Law School does not see grounds for an appeal of the stay against gay weddings in California (see below) . . . U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco today lifted the stay on same-sex marriages in California--beginning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    As Prop 8 Decision is Cheered, Marriage Equality Supporters Brace for Backlash of Hate

    ​At Long Beach's Bixy Park on Wednesday afternoon, a crowd of a few hundred people came holding rainbow flags, American flags, yellow and blue equality stickers, and each other. There were couples and families. Strollers and dogs. A guy with a black eye and a hat on his head that looked like somet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Prop 8 Overturned

    ​UPDATE: More details on tonight's celebratory rally (see end of post) . . .In a landmark case, Proposition 8, the 2008 California voter initiative that outlawed gay marriage, was overturned. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco ruled that the voter initiative is unconstitution ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Married Topless Pro-Abortion Gays Unite!

    ​California voters overwhelmingly support reproductive rights and, if they were to cast ballots tomorrow, a majority would support same-sex marriage, according to separate polls out today.But those findings are not nearly as surprising as the one concerning American attitudes toward nude sunbathin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Read This: The Prop 8 Trial Closing Arguments

    Kimberly Valenzuela​The closing arguments in the lawsuit challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage were delivered on Wednesday. Cameras weren't allowed into the courtroom, but there were plenty of observers blogging the proceedings. But you don't need to get the arguments filtered. Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    How to Watch the Previously Unwatchable Prop 8 Trial

    Screen capture from equalityontrial.org.Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler. Wait, no...​Back in January, Perry vs. Swarzenegger, the high-profile lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban, was already set to make history by becoming first federal trial with proceedings broadcast l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    The New Yorker Tags Along With OC Gay-Rights Activists

    Jennie Warren / OC Weekly OCEC board members (front) Cas Gregory, Archer Altstaetter and Felicity Figueroa with (back) Equality California's Elizabeth Aversa and Daniel shad​Last week's New Yorker magazine featured "A Risky Proposition," an exhaustive, fascinating look at the prospects for the leg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    OC Republicans' Choice for First Lady Comes Out... Against Prop. 8

    NOH8 CampaignTale of the tape​In the November 2008 election, 579,064 Orange County voters wanted John McCain to be president of the United States right now (versus 549,558 for Barack Obama). By extension, Cindy McCain was 50.2 percent of the electorate's choice for first lady (versus 47.6 percent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    OC Activist Compiles Prop. 8 Trial Tweets

    ​Anyone who thought the trial in the federal lawsuit challenging California's ban on gay marriage would be a dry, legalistic affair has been proven wrong by accounts of the first two days inside the San Fransisco courtroom. It's a case about the constitution, but the testimony thus far has delved ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Groups on Either Side of Prop. 8 Blast 2012 Same-Sex Marriage Initiative

    Equality California's decision to hold off on pursuing a same-sex marriage voter initiative at least until 2012 is not being cheered by groups on either side of the Prop. 8 debate.Reports the San Francisco Chronicle:But the organization's decision appears to collide with other progressive groups fig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Move Over, OC, Placer County's Now Bastion of Conservatism

    Thomas Shaller of FiveThirtyEight--a website that takes its name from the 535 electoral college votes as it crunches polling data and other numbers--makes a compelling case that Placer County in Northern California is the new Orange County when it comes to bastions of conservatism.While Orange Count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    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 o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    First Latino Gay Couple To Wed in OC Last Year Says Court Sent Mixed Message

    Happier times: Alfonso and Manuel on the eve of their wedding last year. Today's state Supreme Court ruling on Prop. 8, which upholds a ban on same-sex marriage, was bittersweet (but mostly bitter) news for Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel "Bibys" Chavez, the loving duo we profiled last year, and the fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2009

    Actually, Here's The Important Prop. 8 Decision Event To Attend

    Thanks to Paul Cook-Giles for pointing out that I missed the real OC-connected news with regards to the upcoming California Supreme Court decision on a challenge to Proposition 8. While Gloria Allred's press conference is cool and all, you might be better served by going to OC Equality Coalition's " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Gloria Allred To Say Things Next Week. Also, Fate Of Gays To Be Decided.

    This morning, media-master attorney Gloria Allred sent out a press release that scooped my RSS reader to the news that the California Supreme Court would be announcing its decision on the challenge to Proposition 8 next Tuesday. As if you need a refresher, Allred's the lawyer whose dipped her toes i ... More >>

  • News

    May 21, 2009

    Chuck DeVore Tweets on the Issues!

    This morning, media-master attorney Gloria Allred sent out a press release that scooped my RSS reader to the news that the California Supreme Court would be announcing its decision on the challenge to Proposition 8 next Tuesday. As if you need a refresher, Allred's the lawyer whose dipped her toes i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Still More Fun From the Prop. 8 Imbroglio . . .

    If it is even possible, there will be a greater concentration of gay and lesbian people in San Francisco on March 5, when the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the challenge of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. On the flipside, the day could also see a huge spike in intol ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 8, 2009

    [Trendzilla] They Oughta be Band

    If it is even possible, there will be a greater concentration of gay and lesbian people in San Francisco on March 5, when the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the challenge of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. On the flipside, the day could also see a huge spike in intol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2008

    Martin Millard Not Just a Racialist, But a Homophobe

    The man who fancies himself the savior of Costa Mesa had this concluding couplet in his rambling reasoning to support Proposition 8: "On the other hand, it could be argued that if it is true that, as many gays now assert, homosexuality is genetic, then allowing gay marriage (and the normalization o ... More >>

  • News

    October 23, 2008

    [Election 2008] Three Weddings and a Moose

    The man who fancies himself the savior of Costa Mesa had this concluding couplet in his rambling reasoning to support Proposition 8: "On the other hand, it could be argued that if it is true that, as many gays now assert, homosexuality is genetic, then allowing gay marriage (and the normalization o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    No on Prop 8 public service announcement

    Weekly contributing writer Dave Barton and his friend Greg Adkins directed and edited this moving No on Prop 8 clip, currently making the rounds of YouTube and even the Daily Kos. The lines being read are from 1 Corinthians. And of course you already knew that Proposition 8 is the November religious ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    Rev. Schuller Spins Orange Coast Magazine

    Like Rich, we're excited to see the "new" Orange Coast, and wish it the best even though it's now technically a competitor. I've yet to see the issue that Rich dissected but did catch the one before, one that already had hints of the literary journalism and well-written analysis readers can expect u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    This Week in The OC Weekly

    In this week's issue: Daffodil J. Altan follows Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel Chavez on their wedding day in "Eat Drink and Be Gay Married: After 27 years together, one couple finally has its big, fat, Mexican, recovering-drug-addict, HIV-positive, ex-transgender gay wedding" Rich Kane offers some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2008

    The OC Blade: Gay marriage? What's that?

    So how did the Blade, the self-proclaimed "connection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendred community" for Orange County and Long Beach, cover Tuesday's gay marriage extravaganza? Ummmm.... Well, judging by the Blade's web site, it appears that the mucky-mucks at the Laguna Beach-based m ... More >>

  • Features

    June 19, 2008

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

    So how did the Blade, the self-proclaimed "connection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendred community" for Orange County and Long Beach, cover Tuesday's gay marriage extravaganza? Ummmm.... Well, judging by the Blade's web site, it appears that the mucky-mucks at the Laguna Beach-based m ... More >>

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    Transitive Verbs and Gay Marriage

    A fantasy in which our culture gets some real values

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2006

    From our lesbian flower girl

    On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, in Annapolis, at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify. At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only b ... More >>

  • Features

    October 21, 2004

    Best of OC 2004: Part 4

    On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, in Annapolis, at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify. At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only b ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    Bushs Big No. 2

    Spooky Dick Cheney, serving up dripping red meat, defending the honor of Halliburton

  • Columns

    May 27, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    Spooky Dick Cheney, serving up dripping red meat, defending the honor of Halliburton

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    Notes From The Banana Republic

    A Night at the Queer-Bashing

  • Columns

    March 4, 2004

    Letters

    A Night at the Queer-Bashing

  • Columns

    February 26, 2004

    Letters

    A Night at the Queer-Bashing

  • Columns

    February 12, 2004

    In Defense of Gay Marriage

    So just shut up and buy Adam and Steve a nice present already

  • Columns

    January 30, 2003

    Pop Your Go Pills, Then Read

    So just shut up and buy Adam and Steve a nice present already

  • Columns

    February 17, 2000

    Cesar Salud

    So just shut up and buy Adam and Steve a nice present already

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