LGBT Candidates and Allies Win Big in California

Tuesday night's elections in California were full of victories for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. Meg "Civil Unions Are Good Enough" Whitman was defeated by pro-equality Jerry Brown, in spite of the more than $150 million of her personal fortune she poured into her campaign. And this morning Kamala Harris pulled ahead of Steve Cooley in her race for Attorney General, though the rac...

California Progress Report • Nov 6, 2010

Prop. 8 proponents in Perry case seek order of contempt against California Equality and ACLU over discovery dispute, and aim to expand the dispute

Proponents now seek an order of contempt against Equality California and the ACLU for their continuing failure to produce documents subject to the March discovery orders. The March 22nd order required Proponents to assess the document production and determine, by April 12th, which documents would be relevant to enter into the case's evidentiary record. Having received no documents, Proponents cont...

California Progress Report • Apr 19, 2010

Judicial Candidacy of Prop 8 Mastermind's Conservative Lesbian Sister is Ended by Schwarzenegger Appointment

Anne Marie Schubert quietly ended her campaign early February after Judge Ken Peterson's days-earlier-than-anticipated retirement gave Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the chance at another judicial appointment before leaving office at the end of the year. By appointing Larry Brown of the U.S. Attorney's office, a UC Davis undergraduate and law school alum, Schwarzenegger eliminated what...

California Progress Report • Apr 3, 2010

Inequality is Messy Business

The rights of same-sex couples should not depend on whether they married before or after a particular date. Moreover, whether or not a couple is entitled to have their marriage respected by the government should not depend on whether they married before or after a certain date. We cannot have one set of laws for some Californians, and another set of laws for others. It is nonsensical that some sam...

California Progress Report • Jul 17, 2009

Conservatives Use Proposition 8 To Continue To Foster Cult of Victimhood

Margie Christofferson is not a sympathetic figure. She is someone in deep denial of reality, who is unwilling to reconcile her relationships with her own intolerance. It's not the rest of Los Angeles's job to play along with it, to enable it, to pretend as if it doesn't exist. Doing so merely continues the decades of injustice that comes when good people do nothing and discrimination is treated as...

California Progress Report • Dec 15, 2008

30 Years Ago and Today: Repealing Prop 8

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California Progress Report • Nov 28, 2008