LGBT POV

I was among the lucky LGBT reporters who worked with the Sirius/XM Out Q news team of Tim Curran and Aaron McQuade to put together their Year in Review specials. My assignment was Prop 8 and in case some of you missed the special, I decided to post the script. I think the interview with EQCA executive director Geoff Kors was illuminating, for instance, in how he suggested that the upcoming Harvey Milk Day in California schools will help take away one of the Religious Right wing’s key arguments against marriage equality. And Shannon Minter calling Ted Olson and David Boies ” a Dream Team beyond description” indicates that the LGBT community is becoming more unified in their support of the federal challenge to Prop 8 that goes to trial next week. Please click inside to read the script.

OK – political break over. Robin Tyler offers a counter-point to the POV provided below by Jeanne Cordova. Robin says: “Probably the most debilitating LGBT response to the Maine defeat is a fatalistic “straight people hate us, we should settle for less than legal equality.” This is the essence of Jeanne Cordova’s post.” Click inside for more.

Openly gay Los Angeles Police Commission Rob Saltzman was among about 150 people of all ages who rallied at the Metro station at Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Ave Wednesday night marking the one year anniversary of the passage of Prop 8. Several also carried signs criticizing Maine for banning their marriage equality law from going into effect.

And so we end the Prop 8 anniversary series where we began – with love and marriage. From her honeymoon with her wife Diane Olson in Hawaii, Robin Tyler shares what this long experience and struggle has meant to her. After reading her comments, look at the photos of their re-committment ceremony – with Rabbi Denise Eger, Rev. Troy Perry, Matt, Sara and Chris from Equal Roots, attorney Gloria Allred and a number of other LGBT marriage activists who are in this movement for equality for the long haul. Click inside to read Robin’s story.