Subject: Same-Sex Marriage

• New York State recognizes, but won’t perform, gay marriage

  February 2, 2008

• New York county squints at gay marriage: says “That can’t be right!”

  February 22, 2008

• Rumor Mill: Historic Day For Gay Marriage in May?

  April 16, 2008

• Monday: Phelps Camp VS. Gays and Gavin Newsom at City Hall

  June 17, 2008

• Tourists Live It Up While Poor San Franciscans Take Stay-Cations

  June 25, 2008

• Prop 8 Fueling Vitriol at Folsom Street Fair

  September 25, 2008

• Prop 8 Ad Wars: The Counterattack

  September 29, 2008

• The Tragedy of Gavin Newsom & Chris Daly’s Shared Flaw

  October 16, 2008

• Still No Gay Couples in No on 8 Ads?

  October 30, 2008

• Election Night Storylines

  November 4, 2008

• Gay Marriage: Next Stop, U.S. Supreme Court

  November 4, 2008

• "No on 8" activists: please, please, PLEASE, don't turn this into a holy war

  November 10, 2008

• Obama Supports 'Separate But Equal' Principle For Gays

  Oh, the irony of it all: When it comes to his views on same-sex marriage, the first black man elected president in the U.S. uses the same principle employed in the past by whites to justify segregation in this country. Barack Obama opposes gay marriage, but he supports civil unions. Separate but equal. I know what many of you are thinking now: Obama couldn't support gay marriage during the campaign because if he did he'd never get elected. That could very well be the case. I'm just pointin

  November 17, 2008

• State Supreme Court To Review Gay Marriage Ban

  The Supreme Court of California just announced that it will consider the constitutional challenge to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but it will not issue a stay, which means the state considers gay marriages illegal pending the outcome of the constitutional challenge. San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles counties filed a public sector litigation on Nov. 5 challenging the ban, which voters approved by a narrow margin on Nov. 4. -- John Geluardi

  November 19, 2008

• Theatre Rhinoceros Secedes from State of California

  Say what?!! Theatre Rhinoceros (a.k.a. the "oldest queer theater in America") is so disappointed in the way California voted on Prop. 8 that its mainstage is seceding from the state. And you're all invited to the freebie secession party tomorrow night. Executive Director John Fisher writes: For thirty-one years our Mainstage has been a space of hallowed ground for Same-sex couples and it cannot continue as such if it does not recognize Same-sex Marriage. In recognition of the thousands of queer

  November 20, 2008

• Campaign for California Families' Efforts to Intervene in Prop 8 Litigation Denied

  By Ashley Harrell The California Supreme Court's reentry into the Prop 8 war satisfied almost everybody. Yes on 8 and its supporters figure that the three new court cases, which challenge the legality of a same-sex marriage amendment to the state constitution, don't stand a chance. No on 8 and it supporters are glad they won't have to wait long for the cases to be heard. But one little-noticed decision by the court to reject the efforts of a non-profit group, the Campaign for California Famil

  November 20, 2008

• Do Gay Rights Have a Future Outside of California? Do We Care?

  By Benjamin Wachs Although it’s easy to get lost in the fact that California voters recently decided to put discrimination in the state constitution, a little perspective is in order: gay couples in California still have (almost) full equality under the law, with provisions for civil unions, adoption, and other rights that aren’t going anywhere. That’s still a rarity. Most states in the U.S. don’t recognize gay civil unions, let alone gay marriage. Where the battle in California is

  November 21, 2008

• Will Gay Marriage Have to Wait for Democracy to Catch Up?

  History's Answer: Yes By Peter Jamison Since Californians voted to enshrine discrimination against gay couples in their state constitution on Nov. 4, the varied strains of lamentation from San Francisco's chattering classes have risen to a choral swell. The success of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, gave rise to all manner of complaint: Black voters killed the right of gays and lesbians to wed! So did churches! So did black churches! So did the class of first-graders who naively

  November 26, 2008

• Marriage equality can be achieved by separating church and state

  June 3, 2009

• The Gathering Storm: Lawyers, Loonies, Activists Ready for Prop. 8 Battle

  Civic Center Plaza, 6:58 a.m. By 7 a.m., the anti-homosexual zealots were roaring, the police were telling the guy with the Sodomy-Will-Destroy-America message mounted on his Japanese-made truck to move along, and the gay and lesbian chorus with the pink-haired director (quite good!) were warming up. A massive TV screen of the sort erected in European town squares during the World Cup loomed over Civic Center Plaza. You know, what we need here are some lawyers. Somewhat less than a battalion

  March 5, 2009

• Gay Mormons, Black Pentecostals, Jedi Drag Queens, Oh My! Demonstrators Descend on State Supreme Court for Prop. 8 Hearings

  Peter JamisonMinister Chauncey Killens thinks gay marriage should be illegal."I don't know any white gay man who sat on the back of the bus." So spoke Chauncey Killens, a black Pentecostal minister from Salinas, as he stood on San Francisco's Civic Center mall yesterday. Like hundreds around him, Killens had showed up to demonstrate outside the state Supreme Court, which today heard arguments on the legality of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that several months ago amended California's c

  March 5, 2009

• Will Gay Mecca Relocate From San Francisco To Des Moines?

  Disdain of San Franciscans' disdain of all things Midwestern has become nearly as clichéd as the original sin. And, yet, there's always a touch of schadenfreude anticipating city residents' chagrin whenever legitimately good news emanates from the Midwest indicating its denizens have out-progressived our self-anointed capital of progressivism.  The Iowa Supreme Court this morning did what many observers feel its San Francisco-based California colleagues will not -- rule that a ban on same

  April 3, 2009

• Gay Iowan Transplants to California Ponder Today's Gay Marriage Ruling

  They are a rare species, these gay Iowans who have moved out to the Golden State, the perfect journalistic formula to comment on today's news of the Iowa Supreme Court approving gay marriage while its California colleagues mull this same issue. But we put on our intrepid reporter cap and found two such individuals. (Actually, it turned out to be extremely easy, seeing that this reporter hails from Iowa herself.)Neither transplanted Iowan said that he or she was planning a wedding on the Bridges

  April 3, 2009

• Dog Bites

  April 3, 1996

• Against All Odds

  May 22, 1996

• Drama Season

  Prop. 8 divides Mormon family during the holidays.

  December 17, 2008

• He's No Menace

  Gay marriage has been very, very good to Dennis Herrera.

  November 19, 2008

• Will black neighborhoods in S.F. support the gay marriage ban — again?

  October 8, 2008

• The Gay Divorcees

  Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  June 4, 2008

• I Wish I'd Written That

  Deceased journalist Joe Dignan led coverage of California's movement toward gay equal rights

  July 12, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, April 13, 2005

  April 13, 2005

• "I Do" Redux

  Do you subconsciously oppose gay marriage? Take our quiz and set your id free!

  March 23, 2005

• Looking Ahead

  Aides insist that Mayor Gavin Newsom is focused on City Hall; his sudden celebrity has spawned speculation about higher office. Much higher.

  April 21, 2004

• Chub-a-Dub-Dub

  "Chubs are either chubby or husky, and the chub chasers are typically, though not always, average to thin."

  March 3, 2004

• Institute of Hate

  Right-wingers are targeting liberal pastors -- including at least one in S.F. -- who favor gay marriage

  February 25, 2004

• South to the Future

  Feminists Protest Gay Marriages

  April 5, 2000

• Go Figure

  Prop. 22's Christian backers know a thing or two about failed marriages

  March 1, 2000

• Missing in Action

  Why there's no more Knight in the Knight Initiative

  February 16, 2000

• Beautiful Dreamers

  John and Tom Henning hope to beat Sen. William "Pete" Knight at his own game, with a ballot initiative to legalize gay marriage in California

  December 29, 1999

• Beautiful Dreamers

  The anti-Knight initiative

  December 22, 1999

• The Holy War Over Gay Marriage

  Eighty Methodist pastors from Northern California plan to challenge church law by co-officiating at a lesbian wedding. It's an act of conscience that could sunder America's second-largest denomination -- and bring gay marriage to the center of national co

  November 4, 1998

• Letters

  January 22, 1997

• Extremely Civil Disobedience: Prop. 8 Protests Peaceful So Far

  Peaceful demonstrators shut down the intersection of Van Ness and Grove"Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face," Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1956. "But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime." San Francisco's 2009 version of the civil-rights struggle King waged fifty years ago saw plenty of smiling criminals arrested this afternoon. More often than not the cops were smiling, too.So far, d

  May 26, 2009

• Chron Helps Publicize Anti-Prop. 8 Rallies; Conservative Columnist Calls Foul

  Hmmm. What will I hate today?Conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is calling out San Francisco Chronicle political reporter Joe Garofoli for what she says is an inappropriate role in publicizing rallies in support of same-sex marriage.Malkin pointed out on her Web site this afternoon that Garofoli, in a blog on the Chron's Web site, has offered detailed instructions to readers on how to find protests today in the wake of the California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition

  May 26, 2009

• Campaign for California Families Motions to Butt Into Prop. 8 Lawsuit

  Just in time for pride weekend, the good ol' nemesis of California gay folk, Campaign for California Families, is trying to butt into the latest lawsuit against Proposition 8. In order to give you an idea of the company the organization keeps, the campaign is represented by Liberty Counsel, a non-profit based in perhaps appropriately named Lynchburg, Virginia. On their Web site, you can sign up for your very own "Right Extremist ID Card." Liberty Counsel has represented

  June 26, 2009

• While San Fran Attempts to Butt Into Legal Challenge to Prop. 8, Pair of Gay Supe Hopefuls Plead for Patience

  Scott Wiener This week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera petitioned to become a party in the case challenging Prop. 8 in federal district court, ramming full speed ahead into the legal challenge to the same-sex marriage ballot initiative.Meanwhile, the debate continues about when same-sex marriage advocates should take the issue back to the polls. What's it gonna be? Is 2010 too soon to change public opinion? Will the issue go stale by 2012, with voters even more entren

  July 24, 2009

• Equality California Says Same Sex Marriage Should Wait Until 2012

  You'll need a new cake by 2012...​Equality California announced Wednesday morning it recommends that same-sex marriage advocates wait until the 2012 election to bring the issue back to California voters. Citing the difficulty of changing voters' deeply entrenched views on the subject, the LGBT legal organization said the campaign should wait until more young people enter the voting population, since age is the No. 1 determinant of how people will side on t

  August 12, 2009

• Would Gay Marriage Not Being on the 2010 Ballot Help or Hurt Gavin Newsom? The Answer: Yes.

  Being emotionally charged up can certainly affect how demonstratively one waves his or her placard in a street protest, but it's of less use in the voting booth. No matter how emphatically you punch your ballot, it still only counts for one vote. This appears to be the crux of Equality California's decision not to push for same-sex marriage on the 2010 ballot -- activists didn't think they had as good a shot of winning now as in 2012, and they're astute enough to realize that moral victories are

  August 12, 2009

• Obama Administration Fails In Attempt To Have Its Gay Wedding Cake and Eat It, Too

  But does President Obama 'feel your pain'?​In the gay marriage wars, you can never make everybody happy. But a court filing by the Obama administration today may well piss off everyone.  Social conservatives surely have had their tighty-whiteys worked into a twist by the Department of Justice's legal brief stating the administration supports the legislative repeal of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. That's the law --much-loathed in these parts -- that denies federal recognition and benef

  August 17, 2009

• Maine Setback Won't Deter Californians Seeking Prop. 8 Repeal in 2010 -- Unless it Does

  Bad day for cake yesterday​For those who support same-sex marriage, yesterday's defeat in Maine was both a head-scratcher and a stomach-punch. The "No on 1" campaign was well-run, well-financed, not hamstrung by, say, the mayor of Bangor crowing about "whether you like it or not," and a huge percentage of Mainers flooded the polls. And yet, the state's same-sex marriage laws were still overturned.So, what does this mean for California? Oddly enough, yesterday's Maine election seems to appear a

  November 4, 2009