Dear Action Alert subscriber,
The last week has been amazing, historic, and emotional with gay and lesbian couples getting married throughout the state of California. Now we must do everything we can to ensure our right to marry is protected.
Pride Month is in full swing across California, and the celebrations are our biggest opportunities to mobilize [...]

Being read to by The Big Girl, Berkeley, CA.

Below, some pictures from our errand to city hall today. Narrative to follow next week.

At left: The beloved does what any sensible woman in her position would do on the subway commute to city hall.
At right: Dr. Phil’s emmisaries greet folks upon arrival to SF City Hall. Okay, so she doesn’t work [...]

Fourteen years ago in July, I was on my first date with the woman who would eventually become my life partner and the mother of my children. How we first met is a lesbian cliché par excellence. No, it wasn’t on the softball field. Remember, the beloved is a femmy theater type. [...]

Ruminations to follow. Today, a nod to a herstory-making moment in the LGBT Civil Rights Movement.
Whether or not you’re unmitigatedly pro-marriage, as an institution; even if you believe that federal rights and protections for all LGBT people would be best served by expansion of the federal Civil Rights Act to include us; [...]

Lil’ monkey’s first Steam Train ride. Can you tell?
Our Baba’s day this year was nothing if not a sign of parental arrival. Half of the events of the day were exactly the stuff of my dreams, pre-parenthood: kids bringing me a breakfast tray in bed; my making pancakes for ‘em; us going for [...]

Our Scotland desk has reported a “Closed” sign over at the comments window. So THAT’s why everything was so quiet! Scads and scads of you (meaning like maybe one? two?) have been clamoring to say something, anything, and have been rebuffed! By the server upgrade, or some php5 snafu, or some other [...]

Pops with the most recent of his three grandsons, Castro Valley, CA.