Today’s gratuitous video: Flash Mob at San Francisco Prop 8 Celebration

Prop 8 Overtuned – followed by celebrations and a flash mob at San Francisco City Hall: 8/4/2010 from Dan Estabrook on Vimeo. A few quick videos of the celebration at San Francisco City Hall for Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to overturn Prop 8. Quite amazing. We were all treated to a flash mob to end [...]
August 5, 2010 2

PROP 8 OVERTURNED!

While I am joyous, the pro-Prop 8 team has already submitted an appeal of Judge Walker’s decision. Pam Spaulding has pulled together the interesting reaction from the right, using words like “judicial activism,” “Walker pushing his own homosexual agenda,” and it was “the whim of one judge.” Liberty Counsel’s reaction (home to Peter LaBarbera): Today [...]
August 4, 2010 1

Prop 8 Decision Coming Tomorrow!

From San Jose Mercury News: Judge’s ruling due in California Prop. 8 trial A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday will issue a much anticipated ruling in the Proposition 8 trial, a decision that will be a first step in a long legal process to decide whether California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violates the [...]
August 3, 2010 1

David Pakman Takes on Porno Pete

David Pakman’s great interview of Peter LaBarbera on Midweek Politics Radio. He takes on LaBarbera’s anti-gaytred and asks some great questions. LaBarbera also admits to taking photos at Folsom Street Fair – an event that he describes as one with “thousands of nude men.” Having attended the Fair for years, I can attest to the [...]
July 30, 2010 0

No H8

Many of you are aware of the photos people are having produced to denounce the passage of Prop 8 here in California. Graig, one of our straight allies contributing much to San Francisco’s gay scene, had such a photo done with his son (above). When he posted the photo to Facebook, he received a condemning [...]
July 1, 2010 1

A Song for Constance

“Constant” is an original song written and performed by Sean Chapin dedicated to Constance McMillan and every high school student gay and straight who wishes to take whoever they would like to their prom. LYRICS: One night to remember One moment of love One touch of forever It’s like it was only yesterday Tonight is [...]
April 9, 2010 0

Tonic.com and Ellen Give a Boost to Constance

By now, you’ve probably heard about Constance McMillen, the lesbian high school student from Mississippi whose school canceled the senior prom due to the fact that she wanted to take her sophomore girlfriend and wear a tux. My company, Tonic, covered the story and offered Constance a $30,000 college scholarship and an internship in our [...]
March 19, 2010 4

An Open Letter to Maggie Gallagher

From Fred Karger at The Huffington Post: Like millions of Americans, I was able to see the absolute joy experienced by hundreds of gay and lesbian couples who are now able to legally marry in Washington, DC. I wept when I saw television reports of couples who have been together, some for decades, finally able [...]
March 8, 2010 1

Irrational Anti-gay Arguments

Since I subscribe to various right wing-nut email lists, I usually get to see the daily anti-gay rhetoric fill my email box. Today’s nonsense drivel comes in the form of an American Family Association email about repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Gays showering with straights? Absolutely. If President Obama, congressional Democrats, and homosexual activists get [...]
February 9, 2010 1