Much has been made of the external challenges we face in DC as we build a movement to win and keep marriage for same-sex couples including the possibility of a Prop 8 style ballot fight and potential intervention from members of Congress. Each of those is a challenge that we must deal with, but for [...]

Dog vanishes, Spears fan may be to blame.
It’s Britney, Bitch!
A distraught man who claims his pink-adorned chihuahua was stolen from him at a Wilton Manors gay bar thinks a man with a Britney Spears tattoo is not that innocent in the crime.
Brian Dortort says little Hudson Hayward Hemingway was stolen from him as he was [...]

The vote on same-sex marriage in Maine won’t necessarily be the only election that LGBT folks will be watching this coming November.  The fourth largest city in the U.S. – Houston, Texas – will be holding its mayoral election, and on the ballot is a 20-year public servant in the city who has been elected [...]

Des Moines Register: “The Iowa Civil Rights Commission voted unanimously Thursday to formally support the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision allowing gay marriage, and to formally oppose any constitutional amendment that would overturn the decision.”

A state civil rights commissioner said Thursday that an amendment to the Iowa Constitution banning gay marriage would clash with the fundamental [...]

On November 8, some 2,000 women will head to New Orleans, board the Norwegian Spirit cruise ship and set sail for the Western Caribbean on the largest lesbian cruise ever.
The seven-day cruise is the culmination of months of work and planning by Sweet, the new lesbian travel company founded in January 2008 by Shannon Wentworth [...]

(CNN) — After hours of back and forth between members, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America decided Friday evening to accept noncelibate clergy members and lay leaders who are in “lifelong” and “monogamous” same-sex relationships.
One of the country’s largest Protestant denominations, the Lutheran church approved four recommendations to its ministry’s policies that underscore a new [...]