Ellen DeGeneres is becoming increasingly vocal on gay issues and, now that she's planning to marry Portia de Rossi, you really don't want to get in her way, as John McCain found out today. Watch the video at Towleroad.
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"You know, I'm wishing everyone good luck with their [same-sex] marriages and I hope that California's economy is booming because everyone is going to come here and get married." --California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressing an Environmental Defense Fund event in San Francisco, May 20. Photo by me
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With language and legal conclusions that could not possibly have been stronger (link, link), the California Supreme Court today granted same-sex couples access to plain old marriage. Two down, 48 to go. (Massachusetts did it four years ago.) Above: Outside the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. Photo by Michael Petrelis
The scene tonight on Castro Street. Photo by Michael Petrelis
Lawyer hero: Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and lead attorney for the gay side of the case.
posted by RW at 11:55 PM
Eight and a half hours till the California Supreme Court releases its decision on legalizing (or not) same-sex marriage. Above: My friend Hank from channel 5 reports live from Market and Castro for last evening's news. Below: Matt and Hank wonder what those dang justices are going to do, as we finish up dinner.
posted by RW at 1:19 AM
The weather cleared up today
Which made for happier pics from our Twin Peaks balcony
The photos are basically left to right
And if you click inside a photo, it'll get much larger
Oakland seems to want to be in every photo
It has some kind of complex
Mikey and I met in 1984 in Champaign-Urbana
Tonight we ate "soul food"
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Three Cajuns strike a pose
I use my powers to shrink the Cajuns
Bay Bridge
My Cajun has a thing for football stadiums
Even ones being taken over by weeds
Let's vogue
UC Berkeley
posted by RW at 2:09 AM
Matt's here but his furniture isn't. Maybe life with an air mattress, a roll of toilet paper, a coffee cup and a teddy bear isn't all that bad. Either he's contemplating that ... or some woofy bearcub is passing by on the sidewalk.
This is Matt's view. Click on the pic to make it bigger. Middle-right: the Castro Theater. Middle-left: the mongo rainbow flag that looms over the Castro. Matt loves this flag. I'm indifferent to it. We think this is related to our experiences in grade school.
Matt's view, zoomed.
Back at my (Mario's) Twin Peaks digs right before bed. If you click within the pic to make it bigger, you'll be able to make out City Hall, the Transamerica Pyramid, the Bay Bridge and whatnot.
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