Category: California

CA county settles suit with gay man separated from dying partner

CA county settles suit with gay man separated from dying partner

Saturday, July 24, 2010
California's Sonoma County has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by an elderly gay man who claimed he was separated from his dying partner, accused of abuse, and left penniless when county officials auctioned the contents of their home.

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Prop 8 supporters: ‘We are the victims’

Prop 8 supporters: ‘We are the victims’

Saturday, July 24, 2010
Proposition 8 (a.k.a. “traditional marriage”) supporters say they are the victims, not gay people. And that gay people have brought negative backlash upon themselves by standing up for their equal rights.

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Lawrence King, murdered Feb 12, 2008.

Judge denies defense request to delay trial in shooting death of gay teen

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
A California judge has denied a request by defense attorneys to delay the trial of a teen accused of first-degree murder and a hate crime in the 2008 shooting death of 15 year-old Lawrence King.

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Healthcare and LGBT seniors: the tragic story of Harold and Clay

Healthcare and LGBT seniors: the tragic story of Harold and Clay

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
This month, a jury there will begin hearing the case of Harold Scull and Clay Greene, an elderly couple who endured the worst nightmare imaginable at the hands of health care workers and county officials two years ago in the small town of Sebastopol.

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Perkins arrested shortly after Castro shooting.

San Francisco police resume manhunt for shooter in gay pride slaying

Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The man arrested on suspicion of opening fire on a crowd attending a San Francisco gay pride event Saturday night is no longer believed to be the gunman responsible for murdering 19-year-old Stephen Powell and injuring two others.

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Photo via twitpic @sharayray

Shooting at San Francisco gay pride event leaves 1 dead, 2 injured

Sunday, June 27, 2010
One man was fatally injured and two other people wounded in a shooting in San Francisco's Castro District late Saturday night during the "Pink Saturday" gay pride events.

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Mormon church fined over anti-gay marriage campaign contributions

Mormon church fined over anti-gay marriage campaign contributions

Thursday, June 10, 2010
[tweetmeme] The Mormon Church has agreed to pay a $5000 fine for failing to report some campaign staff contributions it made in support of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure in California that outlawed same-sex [...]

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Outed California lawmaker changes course on anti-gay voting record

Friday, May 28, 2010
A California state lawmaker who was forced to reveal he is gay after a recent arrest for drunken driving spoke out passionately in favor of gay rights during a legislative session Thursday, urging his fellow [...]

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California’s Harvey Milk Day first ever state recognition of LGBT person in U.S. history

California’s Harvey Milk Day first ever state recognition of LGBT person in U.S. history

Friday, May 21, 2010
Saturday marks Harvey Milk Day in California, the first official State Day of Recognition for an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person in our nation’s history. Last year, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law [...]

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California Assembly repeals decades-old law to seek ‘cure’ for homosexuality

California Assembly repeals decades-old law to seek ‘cure’ for homosexuality

Monday, April 26, 2010
Homosexuality is no longer a sexual deviation on par with child molestation that needs to be cured -- at least in the eyes of the California Assembly. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the lower [...]

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Prop 8 repeal fails to qualify for November ballot

Prop 8 repeal fails to qualify for November ballot

Monday, April 12, 2010
A challenge to California's gay marriage ban failed on Monday to qualify for the 2010 ballot, leaving gay activists mulling a 2012 push and hoping a federal court will overturn the measure before then. Los [...]

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California considers repeal of 1950′s law aimed at ‘curing’ homosexuality

California considers repeal of 1950′s law aimed at ‘curing’ homosexuality

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
A California Assembly committee approved a bill on Tuesday that would remove a section of state code that identifies homosexuality as a sexual deviation, equates it to child molestation and asks for research into its [...]

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Retired minister facing church trial for performing same-sex unions

Retired minister facing church trial for performing same-sex unions

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
[caption id="attachment_7533" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Spahr(Santa Rosa Press Democrat)"][/caption] A retired Presbyterian minister faces prosecution by her own church — for the second time in four years — for officiating the marriages of same-sex couples. The [...]

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Lopez (Photo: Fresno City College Rampage)

Fresno college: Instructor violated policy with anti-gay teachings

Friday, March 19, 2010
Fresno City College officials said they plan to take action against an instructor accused of presenting religious-based and anti-gay views as fact in a health class. Campus administrators have concluded [...]

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Internet gay bashing not protected by free speech, court rules

Internet gay bashing not protected by free speech, court rules

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Students at a private school in Los Angeles who posted internet death threats and anti-gay messages on a classmate's webpage, can't claim the constitutional protection of free speech, a California appeals court has ruled. The [...]

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