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Terry Baum brings No on 8 benefit performance to B-town!
0 Comments Published October 10th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.
find out more at terrybaum.com
A No on 8 speaker will be on hand to talk about what’s at stake, and what we all can do.
Leave with your calendar filled, your wallet lighter, and your spirits flying!
• Google map here • excerpt from the one-woman play here
• for further info, contact yrs truly
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Good news from Connecticut*
8 Comments Published October 10th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.New York Times: “Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage“:
In his majority opinion, Justice Richard N. Palmer wrote that the court found that the “segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm,” in light of “the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians, and because the institution [...]
Register to vote! And then hang on tight to it!
1 Comment Published October 6th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.[I feel compelled to remind us all that the ongoing election season content caveat applies here: nothing directly relating to lesbians or children or lesbians' children appears below, except that we all ostensibly live in a democracy, whether vital or compromised or, as I often tend to think so many things are, a little bit [...]
If ever there was a time to step up, it’s now
34 Comments Published September 11th, 2008 in APB, Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment.I went to a talk at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center last night, sponsored by Our Family Coalition, our amazing local LGBT family organization. Family Law and Estate attorneys Deborah Wald and Deb Kinney spent an hour and forty minutes helping explain the mysterious inner workings of the law, as it functions for those [...]
Rest in peace, Del Martin*
0 Comments Published August 27th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.…and the rest of us, let’s not rest until we finish the job in her name.
Del Martin, lesbian civil rights pioneer, died in San Francisco today at the age of 87. She is survived by her partner of 55 years, and legal spouse of 71 days, Phyllis Lyon.
I hope you will read many tributes [...]
Immediate Family
2 Comments Published August 22nd, 2008 in APB, Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment.Acclaimed playwright Terry Baum has revived her one-woman play, Immediate Family, and will be performing it through this fall as a fundraiser for the No on Proposition 8 (the CA marriage ban) campaign. She’ll be performing it this Sunday, August 24 at 2pm, at her San Francisco home. Find out where by sending [...]
We interrupt this parenting blog to crow about a well-placed lesbian television and radio commentator
17 Comments Published August 20th, 2008 in APB, Miscellaney.I don’t even watch television, but a friend has been saying for months, “Don’t you know about Rachel Maddow?! You have to! Brilliant! Progressive! Out dyke! From your home town fer Chrissakes! On television! Go watch her right this very instant and then report back.”
Sadly, the years of Rachel Maddow’s ascension in broadcasting have more [...]
This is what people mean when they say it’s going to get worse before it gets better***
7 Comments Published July 30th, 2008 in APB, Go hetero ally go!.
An out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire at a Unitarian church, killing two people, left behind a note suggesting that he targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal policies, including its acceptance of gays, authorities said Monday. (AP)
Tennessee gunman targets church over its stance on gay rights (Times UK)
Breaking: Shooting in Tennessee — [...]





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