A brand new poll (pdf) from the Public Policy Institute of California shows majority support for marriage equality for the first time with 50% of Californians supporting marriage for same-sex couples while 45% oppose equality under the law. The margin of error is +/- 2 percentage points. Equality California's reaction

The latest tallies on Referendum 71 from the Washington State Secretary of State election results page show that the good guys are ahead 593,956 (51.65%) Approve to 556,090 (48.35%) Reject with 394,282 ballots still to be counted! However, mathematically there is almost no chance that Referendum 71 will be rejected

The names of the six people on Barack Obama's short list of potential nominees to the United States Supreme Court have been leaked and the list apparently no longer contains any known lesbians. They are: Diane Wood of the 7th Circuit Solicitor General Elena Kagan Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd

The Obama Administration announced John Berry would become its appointee for the important position of Director of the Office of Personal and Management. Berry is openly gay, and would become the most senior openly LGBT member of the Obama Administration. See if you can tell that from the  official press release:

Tuesday's Daily Roundup by the Capitol Weekly reports on a new poll which shows a closely divided electorate on the question of whether marriage equality should be allowed in California: "Voters in California are sharply divided on same-sex marriage, and an amendment to overturn Prop. 8 would depend largely on

  Marc Solomon, the Executive Director of MassEquality has accepted a position as Marriage Director at Equality California. Solomon headed the organization when it went from a small statewide organization with a budget of less than a half-million dollars to its current budget of over 3 million dollars.

Equality California has released a 30-second ad that it says it will start airing on television stations around the state to educate Californians about the history of the discrimination against LGBT individuals. Watch the ad here: My commentary, an overall grade and a full transcript of the ad below the

  Today is not only National Freedom To Marry Day and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, but also the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, more commonly known as the NAACP.

It’s interesting to think about the connections between the shared anniversary of the birth of the nation’s greatest President, the birth of the man who formulated the the theory of evolution, the founding of the oldest and most respected civil rights organization and a day to acknowledge legalized state discrimination against same-sex couples who want to marry.

    Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of the devastating impact that HIV and AIDS have had on Black people in America (and the World).