Marriage Equality – Irish style!

Marriage equality is about giving equal rights to marriage for lesbian and gay couples on the basis that lesbian and gay people and heterosexual people are equal in the law. Read more

An Interview with Sherry Wolf

On October 11th, 2009, a march billed as the National March for Equality will take place in Washington, DC. The organizers of the march are organizing under a single demand: “Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.” Read more

Should Marriage Be Our Number One Priority?

It would be foolish to argue that same-sex marriage, engulfed in the firestorm of Prop 8, is not our national LGBT equal rights priority. Read more

Time to Work: A Call for Action

Perhaps it shouldn’t be up to the courts to decide our rights. If that happens, there will always be the notion from adversaries that we don’t deserve those rights. It will be said that “activist judges” gave our equality to us. Read more

Say “I Do”

I do. I do believe in equality for all and I do want to make a difference.  When Prop 8 passed, I was heartbroken. Read more

Celebrate Freedom to Marry Week This Week

Join us in celebration of the 12th annual Freedom to Marry Week this week, February 8-14, 2009. People across the country have pledged to take part in any of our 7 Conversations in 7 Days during the week to move equality forward across the country, and it’s not too late: join in today!

To kick off blogging on Straight Talk on Marriage, Evan Wolfson wrote, “Conversations with the circles of people around us are the prerequisite to winning, the key to helping them push past their discomfort, complacency, or indifference to becoming supportive of our equality.” Read more

Citizens For Equality

Citizens For Equality was created after the passage of Proposition 8 in California, the measure that took away rights that had been granted to members of the gay community. Read more

Sean Kennedy Gay Bashing

Stephen Andrew Moller who threw a single, fatal punch at Sean Kennedy outside an Eastside bar was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after an impassioned argument about the role Kennedy’s sexual orientation may have played. Read more

Engaged for 55 Years

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin fell in love at a time when lesbians risked being arrested, fired from their jobs and sent to electroshock treatment. Read more