Posted in Links for on May 27th, 2009
LA Times article on the upholding of Proposition 8:
“The justices uphold the same-sex marriage ban but also rule that the 18,000 gay couples who wed before November will stay married. The decision is sure to spark another ballot box fight.”
American Foundation for Equal Rights is supporting the lawsuit filed by top litigators Ted Olson and [...]
Posted in marriage on May 26th, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed.
Demonstrators outside the court yelled “shame on you!” Gay rights activists immediately promised to resume their fight, saying [...]
Posted in gay marriage on Dec 16th, 2008
Law professors Jack Balkin of Yale and Ann Althouse of the University of Wisconsin debate whether marriage should be replaced with civil unions for both gay and straight couples.
Tags: gay marriage, legal, marriage
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Posted in sex on Nov 10th, 2008
. . .While the wording is simple, the situation has quickly become complicated. One question: What happens to those same-sex couples who married prior to the ruling? Legal challenges filed on Wednesday raised other questions: Was the referendum process itself lawful? Does the new language conflict with other parts of the state constitution? Separately, should [...]
Posted in gay marriage on Oct 25th, 2008
California’s Proposition 8 is the ballot initiative which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.
This post summizes the polling, which is all over the place – the gap is closing.
Two members from the East Coast sex positive community are raising funds in the fight against Proposition 8.
Comstock Films: Comstock Films is running a [...]
Posted in gay marriage, legal on Oct 10th, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions through the courts. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will [...]
Posted in marriage on Jun 17th, 2008
Phyllis Lyon (right) kisses her partner, Del Martin, after being married Monday at San Francisco City Hall by Mayor Gavin Newsom. The two have been together for more than 50 years. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP. [from AJC]
Time:
Same-sex couples began marrying late Monday night in courthouse ceremonies across California, putting triumphantly happy human faces on a debate [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 30th, 2008
What constitutes sexual harrassment? Confessions of a woman who can finally admit that she experienced it | BlogHer
He used such a crass image to verbally smack me in the mouth. To shut me up. I suppose he referred to my other colleague’s private parts to prevent any possible accusation that he’d suggested sexual acts done [...]
Posted in gay, gay marriage, legal, marriage on May 15th, 2008
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
(05-15) 10:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental [...]
Posted in sex on Mar 4th, 2008
Conflicts Of Interest: The goodbye email from Jimmy Wales’s girlfriend
Here’s the goodbye email from Rachel to Jimmy and an IM conversation that strongly suggests Wales violated Wikipedia’s rules to encourage favorable changes to Marsden’s Wikipedia profile.
Click Me: Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn by Bonnie Ruberg
Welcome to a dusty fantasy land of deep-throating elf [...]
Posted in bisexual, bondage, erotica, galleries, intercourse, roundup, sex, sex blogs, sexblogs on Jun 25th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #86? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.
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Posted in Events, Fetish & Kink, anniesprinkle, elizabethstephens, nyc, sex on Apr 20th, 2007
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens are coming to New York Cityand you are invited to the East Coast premiere ofExposed: Experiments in Love, Sex, Death & ArtThursday, April 26 thru Saturday, May 12, 2007Shows are at 7:30 PM, with late shows on Friday nights at 10:00 PM, plus matinées on Saturday at 3:00 PM.
At: Collective:Unconscious, [...]
Posted in Garrison Keillor, gay, gay marriage, lesbian, queer on Mar 19th, 2007
Garrison Keillor writes:
Ordinarily I don’t like to use this space to talk about my newspaper column but the most recent column aroused such angry reactions that I thought I should reply. The column was done tongue-in-cheek, always a risky thing, and was meant to be funny, another risky thing these days, and two sentences about [...]
Posted in Cameron Scott, Dan Savage, Eric Alva, Garrison Keillor, John Amaechi, Prairie Home Companion, gay, gay marriage on Mar 15th, 2007
Poor, poor, nostalgic Garrison Keillor. He appoints himself the spokesperson for monogamy, and then spouts stupid, outdated gay stereotypes (Stating the Obvious):
Under the old monogamous system, we didn’t have the problem of apportioning Thanksgiving and Christmas among your mother and stepdad, your dad and his third wife, your mother-in-law and her boyfriend Hal, [...]
Posted in sex on Oct 26th, 2006
Leonard Link (Prof. Arthur Leonard):“Nowhere does Justice Albin mention the important point, recently established by two federal appeals courts, that same-sex couples who have entered into civil unions or domestic partnerships do not have standing to contest the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, since they are not “married” in the eyes of [...]
Posted in sex on Oct 2nd, 2006
“It’s vile. It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.” — Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach, September 12, 1998, referring to Bill Clinton in the St. Petersburg Times.
Another one-two punch of karmic irony for Republicans. First, there was James West, [...]
Posted in sex on Jun 7th, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate voted down a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, but Republicans planned a vote in the House of Representatives to keep a national spotlight on the hot-button issue.
The 49 to 48 Senate vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to clear a procedural hurdle, [...]
Posted in sex on Jan 4th, 2006
The Weekly Standard’s anti-polyamory cover story (see previous entry) is getting taken apart on various blogs. Right off the mark, The New Republic’s Rob Anderson weighed in:
The latest Weekly Standard cover story, “HERE COME THE BRIDES: PLURAL MARRIAGE IS WAITING IN THE WINGS,” proves something that its author, Stanley Kurtz, most certainly did not intend [...]
Posted in sex on Jan 3rd, 2006
By LARRY DAVID
SOMEBODY had to write this, and it might as well be me. I haven’t seen “Brokeback Mountain,” nor do I have any intention of seeing it. In fact, cowboys would have to lasso me, drag me into the theater and tie me to the seat, and even then I would make every effort [...]
Posted in sex on Dec 15th, 2005
Josey Vogels
Another year, another sex scandal. Wait a minute. 2005 was decidedly lacking in sex scandals. No interns smoking the president’s “cigar,” no Tommy and Pam or Paris and, er, who was that guy again? Not even a measly exposed nipple to get us into a flap.
But that doesn’t mean 2005 was lacking in sexual [...]
Posted in sex on Dec 12th, 2005
It was sheer coincidence that I happened to be visiting South Africa’s constitutional court in Johannesburg on the morning its judges were announcing a decision of profound social importance. It was equally coincidental that it happened within a few days of an equally significant change in the law in this country, on the same subject: [...]
Posted in sex on Dec 11th, 2005
Gay couples seeking to marry in New York had their hopes crushed yesterday by a Manhattan panel of judges that said homosexuals have no “fundamental right” to get hitched unless the Legislature changes the law.
In a 4-to-1 ruling, the Appellate Division said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan was wrong last February when she ruled [...]
Posted in sex on Oct 28th, 2005
George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.
Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart [...]
Posted in sex on Sep 10th, 2005
BOSTON –Two gay activists are promising to post on the Internet the names and addresses of anyone who signs a petition that could lead to a statewide ban on gay marriage.
The move by Thomas Lang and Alexander Westerhoff, one of the first gay couples married in the state, came after state Attorney General Thomas Reilly [...]
Posted in sex on Jun 29th, 2005
Alexander PanettaCanadian PressTuesday, June 28, 2005
Canada becomes the third country to legalize gay marriage after its Parliament approved landmark legislation late Tuesday despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders.
OTTAWA — It was fought in courtrooms, in legislatures, in street protests, and one of the most turbulent debates in Canadian history was settled Tuesday with [...]
Posted in sex on Jun 16th, 2005
The Friend by Alan Bray · Chicago, 380 pp, £28.00reviewed by James Davidson
In 1913, Turkish workmen restoring the Mosque of the Arabs in Istanbul uncovered the floor of a Dominican church. Among the gravestones was a particularly striking one in grey-white marble with pink and blue veins. Two helmets with slits for eyes faced [...]
