Tag: California
OkCupid bans Web browser over CEO’s anti-gay-marriage views
The appointment of a new CEO by the company that makes the Firefox Web browser has prompted board members to quit, a Twitter frenzy and a push back from a leading dating website because he supported California’s former gay marriage ban.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds SB 1172 Protecting California’s Youth
Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California SB 1172 which prohibits dangerous and disproved efforts designed to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender expression that have proven to inflict great emotional harm.
Jose Julio Sarria, founder of the International Court System, Passes Away
One of America’s gay rights pioneering leaders, José Julio Sarria, passed away Monday morning quietly in his home in New Mexico. He was 91. Funeral and Memorial Service arrangements will be announced by the Imperial Court of San Francisco.
Christianity and Science Are Allies, Not Weapons, on Transgender Equality
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, last Friday renounced an anti-transgender op-ed by Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
HBO to Show Behind-the-Scenes Documentary on Prop 8 Legal Battle
HBO Documentary Films will air a documentary on the battle to overturn California’s Proposition 8, with exclusive access to Ted Olson and David Boies as they represented two California same-sex couples fighting the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Marriage Equality Returns to California
Today, in a historic victory for marriage equality, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry that restores marriage equality to California.