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Proposition 8: U.S. Supreme Court Will Rule on California's Gay Marriage Ban

Update: Reactions quotes after the jump. The U.S. Supreme Court has announced today it will rule on the federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn California's gay marriage ban. In August 2010, Proposition 8 was found unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. That ruling was appealed and ... More >>

PHOTO: Dan Richards, Fish and Game Official, Hauls Murdered Mountain Lion Back to Lair

Updated at the bottom with Richards' amazing response letter, in which he admits to EATING the mountain lion. We kid you not. Originally posted at 12 p.m. OK, headline's a little dramatic. But so was the reaction of animal-rights activists and California politicians to a now-infamous photo of Dan ... More >>

Miss Representation: Jennifer Siebel Newsom on Her OWN Documentary at the Paley Center

From left to right, student activist Devanshi Patel, Spaceballs actress and activist Daphne Zuniga and filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom​Last night's screening of Miss Representation at the Paley Center wasn't merely a screening. It couldn't be, in the same way watching Food Inc. or Waiting for ... More >>

'City of East L.A.' Incorporation Movement Pushes Forward, Despite Projected City Debt of $20 Million

East L.A. wants to secede from county control.​While Angelenos bicker over small matters of locational pride like who's westside (read: supersnob) and who's eastside (read: street), the unincorporated patch of L.A. County known as East L.A. -- boxed in by cities on all sides -- still goes iden ... More >>

New York Legalizes Gay Marriage, LGBT Activists in California Respond

​On Friday night, June 24, the New York State Senate passed a bill that legalizes gay marriage in the Empire State. Governor Andrew Cuomo quickly signed it into law, which will go into effect in 30 days. LGBT activists in California and elsewhere quickly responded to the news. "We are beginn ... More >>

Zev Yaroslavsky Will Replace Antonio Villaraigosa as Mayor, Experts Predict

If Zev runs, he’s the man to beat in 2013

Debra Bowen Will Run For Congress

Debra Bowen​Updated at 3 p.m. with interview of Bowen.Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced today that she is running for Congress to fill the seat held by retiring Rep. Jane Harman.Bowen will face off against L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who launched her campaign last week. In an interview t ... More >>

California Election Results: Statewide Democrats Fend Off Republican Wave, Barack Obama Should Study Golden State for 2012

Colin Young-WolffPresident Barack Obama at USC​On a night when the Republican party took over the House of Representatives and made things tight in the U.S. Senate, Democratic President Barack Obama should study what California Democrats did right in their statewide races, fending off possibl ... More >>

USC Is Getting Visit By Obama; UCLA Gets Clinton: Who's Getting The Better Speaker?

Bill Clinton is at UCLA tonight.​Those dueling visits by presidents Obama and Clinton we told you about have turned into another classic bout between archrivals USC and UCLA, and we have to ask: Which school is getting the better speaker? Obama is heading to USC next Friday (Oct. 22) to speak ... More >>

Carly Fiorina Vs. Barbara Boxer

Running as a flat-out conservative, is Carly crazy, or crazy like a fox?

Young, Gay Dreams of Matrimony

For 20-somethings, Prop. 8's demise is a barometer of equality, not a path to the altar

Who's Behind Janice Hahn Recall Effort?

L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn​Today, Diana Chapman, a longtime watchdog of anything to do with Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, wonders who in the heck is behind the effort to recall the San Pedro politician? "Honestly, I'd sign the petition," writes Chapman in a column on the ... More >>

Food Fight at LAX

Purveyor of bland challenges plans to upgrade cuisine

Oil Companies Try To Suspend Green House Reductions Bill

​Big oil companies are trying to suspend a California green-house gasses law, which sets limits on such emissions until the state unemployment rate falls below 5.5%, according to NBC Los Angeles. A ballot initiative will put the issue of suspending the law before voters in November. Proponent ... More >>

CSU student fee hike is a big one: 5 percent slams California kids in November 2010

Abel Maldonado attacked the adults​If you attend CSUN, Cal State Los Angeles or Cal State Long Beach get ready, because costs for students and their families are taking a major leap, and graduate students are getting slammed even harder. Big college fee hikes were approved just minutes ago. R ... More >>

Fact-Checking Janice Hahn

​Today, the San Francisco Chronicle continues its efforts to fact-check political ads by examining this statement from Lieutenant Governor candidate Janice Hahn:We can send another ambitious career politician to Sacramento, or Janice Hahn - single mom, councilwoman, businesswoman, schoolteacher fo ... More >>

SoCal Cities Move Against Arizona Over Immigration Law

​Two Southern California cities this week voted to oppose Arizona's controversial law that would allow police to ask people they stop for proof of legal residence in the United States. The West Hollywood City Council voted uninamously to implement an official city boycott of Arizona good and ... More >>

Lessons in Viability from the California Democratic Convention

​This is how you go around the state Democratic Convention if you are a viable candidate: briskly, stopping only long enough to shake hands, and surrounded by bright young things who carry your placards and chant your name as though you are their personal Jesus.And here is how you go around if you ... More >>

Pro-Same-Sex-Marriage Initiative Fails To Make Ballot

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom campaigns against Prop. 8.​Proponents of a ballot initiative that would have asked voters to overturn Prop. 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, announced Monday that they failed to gather enough signatures to get the measure certified for the November ele ... More >>

Villaraigosa Endorses Janice Hahn for Lt. Governor

The "big announcement" came several hours later than expected, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has endorsed L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn for lieutenant governor.L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn​In a press release sent out last night, Villaraigosa says, "Janice Hahn knows what it ... More >>

I Drink Your Milkshake: Tips from Pastry Chef Mariah Swan and Councilmember Eric Garcetti

The personal diet is now intensely political. This ethic now even applies to lighthearted summer drinks like the milkshake. City Council President Eric Garcetti is among the participants in the latest Got Milk? campaign focusing on milkshakes featuring recipes by Grace and BLD pastry chef Mariah Sw ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Gay Pride, Kung Fu Femmes, Jay Reatard, Plus Lakers Win but Downtown L.A. Loses

Sunday night was a winning night for L.A. Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club Awards ceremony at the Universal City Sheraton hotel. Writers Christine Pelisek, Daniel Heimpel, Gendy Alimurung and Nancy Rommelmann all took home first place awards, while Darrick Rainey, Steven Leigh Morris, Patrick Ra ... More >>

Mo-Chica: The Best Peruvian Ceviche Might Be in a Warehouse South of Downtown

Raw deal

Proposition 8 Ruling Sets up California War

Gay-marriage culture battle deepens between gays, Latinos, Christians, liberals

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Is Home Shuling Next? L.A.'s Jewish day schools are facing big problems as the economy continues to teeter. L.A. TimesPrick Up Your Ears City officials are accusing mercenary dog rescuers of "cherry picking" their pound purchases based on later, lucrative resale value. L.A. Daily News Arboretum ... More >>

Villaraigosa and Solar Measure B Get Burned

March 3 was supposed to be a romp for the L.A. mayor, not a reprimand

Queer Town: Villaraigosa Breaks Bread with Rick Warren

A few days after gays and lesbians took part in national Valentine's Day-timed protests  against Proposition 8's November victory, evangelical minister Rick Warren addressed the city's annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown L.A.,  the L.A. Times reporte ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Torched Dancer Suspects Nabbed A joint effort by police and U.S. Marshals netted the two suspects who allegedly set bikini dancer Roberta Busby afire in the early morning hours of last Thursday. Rianne Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Petrillo, 22, were run to ground at a San Fernando Valley motel ... More >>

Coming Home

Editor's notes

Prolonged Battle over Proposition 8

It looks like the gay marriage ban won, but activists could upend the victory

Riding the Cultural Divide with Proposition 8

What's at stake in California's gay-marriage ban

Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters

The facilitator talks Obama, art, the DNC and Fairey's Denver arrest

No Face Time in Denver for Villaraigosa

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, according to the LA Times, may be the "Latino point man" for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, but when he arrives in Denver late this week for the Democratic National Convention, he will not have a prominent TV slot as a speaker.

Protecting Obama from Gay Marriage Politics

Activists argue that now isn't the time for more gay lawsuits

Queer Town: Villaraigosa's Disappearing Act

On June 17, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be missing in action. Instead of standing on the steps of City Hall, reading vows to Chuck and Mike or Deb and Julie, he will be visiting with airport security experts in Israel...far, far away from the TV camera crews that will be filming ever ... More >>

WeHo Reacts to California Supreme Court Gay-Marriage Ruling

God bless Gavin Newsom

Gay and Happy at a West Hollywood Candle Shop

The phone started ringing at Timothy Jay Candles a little bit after ten o’clock in the morning, and it didn’t stop for the rest of the morning. At one o’clock, the red portable phone rang again. Tim Sullivan, a bright-eyed man in his sixties and owner of the candle shop, answered it. “Tim ... More >>

Key Moments in the Struggle for Gay Marriage in the U.S.

Holy unions to Supreme Court battles

California Supreme Court Set to Consider Gay Marriage

Meet the L.A. four who started all the trouble

Splitsville

Watch out for whiplash as Villaraigosa spins his wrecked marriage

Splitsville: Villaraigosa Spins his Wrecked Marriage

Watch out for whiplash

Townie

“This is the best street in L.A.,” declares Eric Garcetti as we step onto Park Drive in the hills of Echo Park.

We Do, Too!

How to plan an absolutely fabulous same-sex wedding

Openly Rational

A straight, Republican judge rules for the home team

Hahn Solo

Hahn Solo

Jimmy doesn’t like to be called dull. In fact, he defends his style with, uh, passion

Gay Camelot

The 20-year brief, shining moment

Two Americas, Two Lists

Brave Newsom World

Gay Marriage Mania

Wedding Day