Tags: david blankenhorn, prop 8, defendants, star witness, institute for american values, conservatives, marriage equality, somes out, support, right, judge vaughn walker, same-sex, gay
Updated 3:15 p.m. EST with responses from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and NOM's Maggie Gallager (after the jump)
David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values was supposed to be the "star witness" of the homophobes defending Proposition 8 before Judge Vaughn Walker a couple years back. But Blankenhorn's testimony didn't exactly end up being as bigoted as Team Prop 8 had hoped (he famously said that it would be in the best interest of children of same-sex couples to allow their parents to marry).
Now, after again confusing his fellow conservatives for opposing North Carolina's disgusting Amendment One, Blankenhorn has officially come out in full force for marriage equality rights.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Tags: kylar broadus, first, trans, witness, tesitfy, u.s. congress, senate, enda, lgbt inclusive, video, transcript, discrimination, rights
History was made on Capitol Hill today as Kylar Broadus became the first transgender witness to testify before the U.S. Senate.
So, what did Kylar have to say to the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee about a life of discrimination?
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tags: atlantis events, cruise, dominica, arrest, public, gay sex, mayer, michelangelo signorile, sirius xm, other, passengers, eye witnesses
Over the weekend, Dennis Jay Mayer, one half of the pair arrested on a gay cruise docked in Dominica, told KTLA that he denied having sex in public view on board. Today, other passengers from the Atlantis Events-operated cruise are claiming otherwise.
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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 06 July 2011
Tags: lawrence king, anti-gay, classmate, trial, testify, witness
More heartbreak is coming through the wire as a fellow classmate of Larry King's speaks about his gone-too-soon peer and the medical examiner gives details of King's body. Info after the jump.
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