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First some background… Last December the DC Council passed and mayor Adrian Fenty signed a marriage equality bill into law. As is DC law Congress had 30 days to review the bill and haters like the NOM, National Organization [Against] Marriage, freaked out and tried their best to get Congress to meddle in the [...]

Over the weekend HRC had a big shin-dig in Raleigh, NC.  Pam of PamsHouseBlend was there and has an awesome first person writeup on her blog here.  Attendees were entertained by Clay Aiken and Meredith Baxter but the real headliner was HRC President (and Inspector Gadget look alike) Joe Solmonese who  made some lofty promises:

Here’s [...]

Very rarely do I post something that has absolutely nothing to do with gay and or Denver life but I stumbled across this on one of my favorite gay blogs today and got such a kick out of it I felt the need to repost it.
Today’s media cycle has been saturated with coverage of the [...]

Via CBS News:
Now Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is saying he expects the president to address “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the speech, CBS News Capitol Hill producer John Nolen reports.
Levin said he didn’t know what or how much the president would say on the topic.
The senator, [...]

Gov Bill Ritter is expected to announce later today (Denver Post) that he will not seek re-election later this year.  Scott McInnis, Ritter’s expected Republican challenger, currently leads in early polling.
In his single term Gov Ritter has been a champion for gay rights in Colorado having signed bills regarding second parent adoption, designated beneficiaries, employment [...]

Oh Sally.  In 2008 she said that gayness is a bigger threat to the US than terrorism and Islam.  Later that year she was caught twice bringing a loaded gun with her into the state capitol building.

Her latest lunacy?  Banning divorce.  Well kind of.  Via KOCO News:
Scheduled for introduction in the 2010 legislative session by [...]

Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine leaves office on January 19th and will be replaced by a Republican.  Corzine has pledge to sign a marriage equality bill if the legislature passes one so Garden State Equality is hauling ass trying to get a bill to his desk before the end of his term.
The New Jersey [...]

Remember the afternoon the CA Supreme Court declined a request to strike down Prop 8 a group of 5 Denver activists with Soulforce staged a sit-in at the clerk and recorder’s office? Well those 5 people have taken their fight to court and are holding a joint-fundraiser this Friday to help pay their legal [...]

I promised to let you know when ENDA (the federal nondiscrimination law) was making progress so here we go.
It’s looking like the House Education and Labor Committee is going to vote on ENDA soon and pretty much every gay rights group in the nation is asking their members across the country to call and write [...]

Via ABC 7 Denver:
It was good for me to go through the Christian hatred of people believing that I was a gay man — and hating me so strongly because of it. And so because of it, my compassion for the homosexual community has gone up incredibly,” said Haggard.
I’m not sure what “homosexual community” Ted [...]