Obama Announces Opposition To California’s Ballot Measure

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a strong stand this weekend against a constitutional amendment to appear on California’s ballot in November that would effectively overturn the state supreme court’s recent decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
In a letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club read yesterday at the group’s annual Pride Breakfast, Senator Obama [...]

I’m So Old, (Insert Punch Line)

John McCain, when I was born, you were nearly six years older than my mother. Now, seven years into her retirement, you want a new job: the hardest job in the world. Wow Obviously, my mother isn’t running for president, but her age gives me a context for considering yours. And within that context, your [...]

San Francisco gay pride parade has new meaning

By LISA LEFF (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
June 28, 2008 5:57 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO – Move over Dykes on Bikes. Here come the brides – and grooms. Given San Francisco’s sizable role in initiating the lawsuits that led California’s highest court to strike down the state’s bans on same-sex marriage, the city’s 38th annual gay [...]

Why Baby Boomers May Bust the Housing Market

Think the current housing downturn and the subprime mortgage mess is the worst of the housing market’s problems? Not so, according to a report published this month in the Journal of the American Planning Association.
About to wreak havoc on the housing market are the 78 million American baby boomers who will “retire, relocate, and eventually [...]

DeGeneres, de Rossi planning ‘dream wedding’

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have set a wedding date, and to hear the talk show host tell it, the ceremony is going to be a doozy.
DeGeneres, who won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for talk show host Friday night, told reporters backstage at the Kodak Theatre that she and de Rossi are planning [...]

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