Not All Republicans Are Safe from NOM’s Storm

It looks like Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown and their illegally run National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is back in California.  Yes, of course they’re talking against marriage equality, but moreover, they’re talking trash about…ready for this…a Republican candidate!  Why?  Only one real reason of course…that Republican believes that LGBT tax-paying Americans should have the same rights as all “straight” Americans.

So, since Tom Campbell, a Republican, has stood in support of LGBT equality, he’s managed to place his face on NOM’s target.  Below, the shots they take at Campbell.  Will it be a bulls-eye or a miss?

CBS5: Newsome Announces Run for LG

Good news out of California from CBS5:

Months after abruptly dropping his bid to be California’s governor, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he wants to be second in command.

More on the story at: CBS5.com!

Boies, Olson Remain Optimistic about Prop 8

There’s a great post over at Gay City News by Paul Schindler that talks about the optimism that David Boies and Ted Olson (the attorneys fighting to repeal California’s Prop have that marriage equality will win.

Here’s an excerpt:

As the attorneys wait to return to Walker’s courtroom to make final arguments –– later this month or in early April –– Boies said, “I feel very good” about the outcome at this first stage. Walker, he said, outlined the issues he wanted addressed at trial, and if those remain the questions uppermost in his mind, “we win.”

Read more here!

So what do you think? Will Prop 8 stand or be overturned?

Silence of the Lambs

When news broke about California State Senator Roy Ashburn being arrested for, LGBT bloggers and news outlets began to speculate that Ashburn was gay.

Many LGBT bloggers in their subsequent postings expressed outrage, some feigning utter contempt with the use of vulgarity for the entertainment of their readership, in what appears to be the “best keep known secret” in California.

In the days which followed it was reported that many in various local communities knew Ashburn was, or at the very least suspected he was gay, having been seen in several gay bars in California. Many would share a drink or two with Ashburn. It has even been said that local media knew of Ashburn’s “closeted” side.

Yet as many pointed out even before Ashburn admitted in a radio interview on KERN that he was in fact gay, all these people including the press never, so it seems, ever called out Ashburn for being a gay man and yet voting against LGBT issues in the state of California.

In his remarks in the interview Ashburn stated, ”The best way to handle that is to be truthful and say to my constituents and all who care I am gay”.

He continued, “My votes reflect the wishes of the people in my district, I have always felt that my faith and allegiance was to the people there in the district, my constituents.”

More at: Focus On The Rainbow!

Getting Involved

From Instinct Magazine:

Jason Mraz certainly knows how to make us swoon. The Grammy winning singer-songwriter of “I’m Yours” dropped by the San Diego Gay & Lesbian Center to speak about equality in Southern California.

“I came down here to learn more about how I can get involved in the fight for equality,” Mraz, a resident of nearby Oceanside, said. “Not just marriage equality, but equality for all. And why it’s important to me is that it affects my life, many of my friends, management, staff, even one of my close, personal friends, my transgender surfing buddy.”

More here!

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