Marriage equality is the current enormous focus of the bigger goal of full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and via TPM, one response from Thursday’s pro-marriage equality vote in Minnesota reveals something about why the goal of equality is broader than marriage. After the bill passed, state Rep. Peggy Scott (R) said: [...]
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Queer Talk: Minnesota One Step Closer to Marriage Equality
The Minnesota House just passed a bill which brings the state one step closer to marriage equality. Expectations are that the Senate will vote by Saturday, where passage is anticipated. Gov. Mark Dayton says he’ll sign it. If that happens, marriage equality will go into effect August 1. The vote was 75 to 59. One [...]
Queer Talk: Delaware Seal, Before and After Marriage Equality
Yesterday, Delaware Joined the marriage equality list, becoming the 11th state. I used the state seal in that post, and thought then that those two guys seemed to be looking at each other. Thanks to Think Progress, I now have the visual.
Queer Talk: Delaware Joins Marriage Equality List
Equality Delaware tweets, via @EQED: BREAKING: Marriage equality passes in the Senate. Delaware is officially the 11th state to secure the freedom to marry! #DE4M At Think Progress: Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become the 11th state that recognizes same-sex couples’ marriages. [...]
Queer Talk: Illinois GOP Chair Resigns Over Gay Marriage
The Chicago Tribune reports that the chairman of the Illinois GOP, Pat Brady, has resigned over controversy of his support for marriage equality. With same-sex marriage legislation pending in the Illinois legislature, Brady this year voiced his support for the proposal despite a plank in the state GOP platform that said marriage should be reserved [...]
Queer Talk: “Kissing Wives” and Antigone Rising Interview (Part Two) [VIDEO]
Four women come together to create the band, Antigone Rising, in what their bio describes as the “second phase of their career.” See the first of a two part interview with members of the band here. In 2005, they’d opened for The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and Rob Thomas. After an “unpredictable” period due to a [...]
INTERVIEW FEATURE — Queer Talk: “Kissing Wives” and Antigone Rising (Part One) [VIDEO]
You’ve seen the “Gay Marriage Already Won” Time covers. The lesbian couple, or as I’ve heard it described, the “kissing wives” cover (the kissing engaged guys – Russell Hart and Eric LaBonté – were good, too, of course) are Kristen and Sarah Ellis-Henderson. Kristen and Sarah were married in New York in 2011, and have [...]
Queer Talk: Rick Santorum and Rand Paul Same-Sex Marriage Predictions
Maybe Time’s recent cover story, How Gay Marriage Won, got the attention of Rick Santorum and Rand Paul. Surely the, as it’s widely described, “avalanche” of marriage equality supporters played a role in the remarks the two recently made. When your side is being buried by the “avalanche,” you plan your observations and predictions accordingly, [...]
Queer Talk: On the Cover of Time, “How Gay Marriage Won”
Excerpt from the Time cover story, How Gay Marriage: … (N)o matter what the Justices decide after withdrawing behind their velvet curtain, the courtroom debate — and the period leading up to it — made clear that we have all been eyewitnesses to history. In recent days, weeks and months, the verdict on same-sex marriage [...]
Queer Talk: David Koch, ‘I Believe in Gay Marriage’
From Politico: Billionaire industrialist David Koch, who is helping steer millions of dollars to elect Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans, on Thursday told POLITICO he disagrees with the GOP’s stance on gay marriage and believes the U.S. needs to consider raising taxes to balance the budget. “Marriage equality” is the more accurate term, but whatever [...]
Hey Barack, This is How It’s Done
“New York has finally torn down the barrier that has prevented same-sex couples from exercising the freedom to marry and from receiving the fundamental protections that so many couples and families take for granted,” Cuomo said in a statement. “With the world watching, the Legislature, by a bipartisan vote, has said that all New Yorkers [...]
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