Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Family Equality’s Nix in Newsweek: Mehlman’s Coming Out Roils Gay Community

From Newsweek: George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign chief and former RNC chair Ken Mehlman, long a thorn in the side of the LGBT movement, dropped August 26, 2010

At West Point, Hidden Gay Cadets Put in Spotlight

From today’s NYT: Code words, secret societies, covert meetings, fake identities: these are tools that a certain set of cadets learn here at the United August 25, 2010

Family Matters: The Smiths, an Old-Fashioned Nuclear Family

The vignette below is part of Family Equality Council’s “Family Matters,” a storytelling series that highlights LGBT parenting. Here is the Smith family, in their August 23, 2010

The Post-Game from Last Night’s CA Congressional Debate

Although the live feed was horrible…horrible, we get a pretty good post-debate synposis from the local TV station that sponsored the debate between Rep. Mary August 20, 2010

Live Blogging Bono Mack v. Pougnet Debate

opening statements… Mack: We need jobs, President’s stimulus is accomplishing little; government too big; “deeply concerned” about the direction this President and this Congress is August 19, 2010

Live Blogging Tonight’s CA Debate: Pougnet vs. Bono Mack

Tune in tonight for a campaign debate between Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., and Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet, the Democratic nominee and an openly August 19, 2010

Family Matters: What If There’s an Emergency?

The vignette below is part of Family Equality Council’s “Family Matters,” a storytelling series that highlights an LGBT family each week. Here is Cindy in August 18, 2010

New Horizons for Family Equality Council, MassEquality

Family Equality Council’s director of public policy, Kara Suffredini, has accepted a position as executive director for MassEquality, which works to protect marriage equality and August 18, 2010

No Marriages This Week in CA; On Hold Indefinitely

The AP reports: SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely Monday while it considers the constitutionality of August 16, 2010

The Looney Tunes of Florida’s Candidate for Governor

A priceless cartoon and excellent editorial in the Pensacola News Journal. In an interview last week, McCollum — as attorney general currently losing the state’s August 16, 2010

Family Equality Council Congratulates Soon-To-Be Parent Neil Patrick Harris

Via Twitter yesterday, actor Neil Patrick Harris announced he and his partner are expecting twins this fall. Harris tweeted, “So, get this: David and I August 16, 2010

Prop 8 and Families

The indispensable NYT columnist Frank Rich brings it home: Much has been said about the triumph of the odd-couple legal team, the former Bush v. Gore August 16, 2010