Posts Tagged ‘prop 8’
California to Gay Couples : You Can’t Get Married.Ok You can. Um..Never Mind
10:23 am By Maegan La Mala · California|GLBT|mexico · 6 Comments
17 Aug 2010
The narrative feels a little like a novela, with California’s courts playing fickle lover to the devoted, fight till the end marriage equity crowd.
Earlier this month, Proposition 8, which barred same sex marriage in California, was shot down by a Federal Judge. Not surprisingly, the appeal was immediate which halted marriages first until tomorrow. Then yesterday, a federal court in San Francisco blocked the stay from being overturned until a hearing, expected in early December.
In the meantime, everyone can move to Mexico City.
Sentencing Day for Jose Sucuzhanay Killers
7:30 am By Maegan La Mala · GLBT|Immigration|Justice|New York City|Violence · Comments Off
5 Aug 2010Today in Brooklyn Criminal Court, the family of Jose Sucuzhanay awaits the sentencing of the two men convicted of killing the Ecuadorian businessman, brother, and son in a hateful attack.
I wanted to highlight this this morning and bring all of your thoughts to the Sucuzhanay for two reasons apart from the horrible injustice that no court will ever be able to fix. First, the sentencing is happening while New York City finds itself smack in the middle of another wave of anti-Latino/anti-Mexican hate crimes. Certainly, people will be looking to this verdict as a sign of what the NY justice system values the lives of Latinos at. However this is also dangerous, as the NY justice system is the same that incarcerates both Latinos and African-Americans at record numbers. Having working with families who have lost their children to hate crimes and racial violence, I understand the desire and want for the loss of life to come at some cost, for equal protection under the law to really work for once. But I also know that no time behind bars will bring back the Jose’s of the world.
Ozomatli’s Gay Vatos In Love
1:55 pm By BiancaLaureano · GLBT|Music · 9 Comments
3 May 2010Although some band members in the musical group Ozomatli have changed, their focus on social justice and human rights through art and musica has not. While reading an article from the Los Angeles Times, I was introduced to the single Gay Vatos In Love from Ozomatli’s fifth album, FIRE AWAY, which is in stores now. Ozomatli does not just create a song about gay men in same gender relationships. They also discuss couples who are not “out” and make connections to love and the murder of Angie Zapata (although not a fully convincing recognition to what trans-misogny is and how this led to her murder, but one of the first times I’ve heard a pop culture reference has mentioned her). Below is an upload of the song with a seperate video (not an official one by Ozomatli).
Gay Marriage in Maine: Will Prop 8 Repeat Itself?
11:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|GLBT|Justice|Maine|society · 1 Comment
17 Sep 2009Back in April, we told you about how Maine had just become yet another U.S. state to legalize marriage between two people of the same sex, and that was something to celebrate — back then, that is. As has been the case in many states passing such legislation, the backlash is strong and often catches us, who are busy celebrating, off guard.
Such was the case in California and that intricately mobilized hate campaign had serious consequences. And the same is beginning to play out in Maine, where the fate of gay marriage is now in the hands of voters, who will be asked to cast their ballot for or against Question 1, an initiative that if passed would overturn the law. Playing dirty apparently pays, and it appears that gay marriage opponents in Maine have figured that out, as this is what the citizens of that state are currently getting on their TV screens:
Funny, that “gay marriage will be taught in schools” rhetoric lie was precisely the “gota que colmó el vaso” in the California Prop 8 debate. Many believe that inserting that little piece of bigoted dishonesty is what put on the fence voters on the side of voting against civil rights for Californians:
Very original Maine homophobes! Luckily, gay marriage supporters have put together some great ads of their own, taking the high road and showing what “family values” are really all about. Check them out after the jump.
California, Get Some Courage
4:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Controversia|GLBT|society · 2 Comments
26 May 2009Guess who’s not proud to be a Californian again?
Even in the worst of times, it is important to remember: the fight is not over.
Please sign the pledge to keep the campaign for marriage equality in California going. This can’t end this way.
Via / Courage Campaign
Prop 8 in Cali to be decided today
12:20 pm By la Macha · GLBT · 3 Comments
26 May 2009
And as I was writing this post, the decision came out: Prop 8 is upheld (which makes same sex marriages are illegal), but the 18,000 couples that got married when same sex marriage was legal are still considered “real.”
More as news breaks.
Edited: Here is the Supreme Court decision in PDF format
EDITED: Here is live CBS coverage the protests going on in San Fran right now.
Both Sides of the Prop 8 Debate
12:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT|Media|Politics|society · Comments Off
6 Mar 2009Want to hear some intelligent debate on the Prop 8 issue? Well, you’ve come to the wrong place. I just wanted to call attention to what Fox News attempts to pass off as intelligent debate these days. Check it out.
But could you really expect more from Glenn Beck? “M&Ms and donuts”…yeah….
Via / YouTube
Schools Can Legally Expel Lesbian Students
10:04 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|GLBT|Justice|society · 1 Comment
30 Jan 2009
Fresh off the heels of the Prop 8 victory, my beloved California is faced with another case of discrimination on the basis of orientation. The California 4th District Court of Appeal has ruled that a Lutheran school was within its right to expel two lesbian students based on their gender preference in partners:
After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship,” the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law.In response to that suit, an appeals court decided this week that the private religious school was not a business and therefore did not have to comply with a state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating. A lawyer for the girls said Tuesday that he would ask the California Supreme Court to overturn the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal.
The appeals court called its decision “narrow,” but lawyers on both sides of the case said it would protect private religious schools across California from such discrimination suits.
Huckabee defends the honor of marriage
10 Dec 2008Mike Huckabee pulls out every well thought out reason why gay marriage sux big hairy man balls here, and fortunately, Jon Stewart calls him on every single one of them. In light of the fact that two Latin@s were brutally beaten, one of them to the point of death, because of gay hate, it’s important to remember that not calling out even the well thought out homophobic reasoning has consequences.
There is no reasonable hate–I am glad Jon Stewart, at least, recognizes that.
Prop 8 Musical
8 Dec 2008I know we’re kinda late on this…but that’s ok. If you’re like me, you refuse to hope on the bandwagon until the bandwagon has pulled out of the station and is thirty miles down the road.
BTW: video is remarkably subversive for a Hollywood deal. Anti-capitalistic interrogation of anti-gay measures? Haven’t seen this sorta subversiveness since the Red Scare.
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