Results for: garden state
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Letting the Team Down: Failing at Gay Marriage
“For all of our joint bank accounts and shared wardrobes, for all our talk of travel and home loans, of potential babies – she was right, it was just a piece of paper, easily crumpled and lost with no consequence.”
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Having Your Wedding Cupcake & Eating It Too: Radical Queer & Progressive LGBT Politics Working Together
The new executive director of Garden State Equality, Andy Bowen, and I chat about the influence of queer radicalism on LGBT progressive organizations and movements.
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BREAKING: U.S. District Court Rules Oklahoma Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
This is too important for my intended Oklahomo pun, but I want y’all to know that I thought of it.
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New Jersey Ruling Calls for Legalizing Gay Marriage, Chris Christie Plans to Appeal Like A Total Jerk
The governor’s office plans to appeal the ruling, but activists in the state are already celebrating.
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We Get to Keep a Thing We Won! New Jersey Will Start Marrying Same-Sex Couples On Monday
Couples across the state prepare to marry after the state’s highest court orders same-sex ruling must stand.
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NJ’s Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Is Great, Not Indicative of Christie’s Conversion to Decency
Perhaps Christie’s evolution could help push Republicans into being less bigoted and terrible to queers. But that, of course, might be pie in the sky.
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Chris Christie and His Nonsensical Anti-Gay Arguments Are An Embarrassment to New Jersey
It has become increasingly difficult to defend my home state with our governor saying dumb things left and right, like his brief on marriage equality. Are you ready for a headdesk the size of a Jersey hairdo?
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Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta Stands Up for Gay Marriage and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Familia es Familia, unless you’re in the Salvation Army. Or Louisiana.
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Gay Marriage Wins: In Which We Celebrate and Also Push Forward
“For even one vote to come out in favor of gay marriage only three years later would have been historic; the fact that all four states did so is nothing short of incredible.”
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New Jersey Democrats Have High Hopes for Second Try on Gay Marriage
New Jersey Democrats are hoping that 2011 is the year their state sees marriage equality.
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Same-Sex Marriage Is Taking the Northeast By Storm
The Catholic Bishop in Brooklyn is talking crazy about it, New Jerseyans are suing for it, Rhode Island will take civil unions instead of it (for now), Obama won’t “make news on it” and a city clerk upstate refuses to do her job and sign certificates of it.
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New Jersey Senate Voting on Gay Marriage Tomorrow! Get Your Whiskey & Kleenex!
No one thought it would happen, but the New Jersey Senate agreed to hear the same-sex marriage bill tomorrow — what’s the outlook? Also, Rhode Island’s gay funeral rights bill veto, Prop 8 trial on YouTube, Obama’s transgender appointee, and the funniest bestest Daily Show video ever about that simple time Glenn Beck & his ilk are always reminiscing about.
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Day Three of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Let’s Get Offensive
Day Three of the Prop 8 Trial recap, in which the other side wants to talk about how gay men sleep around, schools teach children how to be gay, and that because we have Will & Grace, we don’t need equal rights. What they don’t know is that Will & Grace has been off the air for a few years. The plot thickens…