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5/21/2013
It’s Election Day in L.A.! City Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilmember Eric Garcetti have been campaigning for almost two years—spending more than $33 million—to succeed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and lead the city’s 3.8 million residents. But most political observers think election fatigue will keep voter turnout so low, the outcome will basically be decided by a relatively few—perhaps even lower than the 21 percent of the 1.8 million registered voters who cast ballots in the ...
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5/20/2013
On Tuesday, May 21, Los Angeles is expected to make history for having the lowest voter turnout ever for a mayoral election. Ironically, that could prove a boon for the LGBT community if LGBT voters turn out and get quizzed by an exit polltaker, indicating that the LGBT community in the nation’s second largest city indeed has some political clout. Outgoing L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa often cites the fact that, second to Latinos, it was ...
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5/14/2013
I’ve known Jewel Thais-Williams since the late 1980s when I first started in the LGBT press. From day one, the respect for Jewel was palpable; people would part and make way for her when she and her wife, Rue, walked in a room. It was respect that she had earned over years of creating spaces for LGBT people of color to feel safe, welcome and loved. It is almost hard to fathom that it’s been ...
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5/10/2013
Heading into the final stretch of the L.A. Elections on May 21, a new poll by the Pat Brown Institute shows City Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilmember Eric Garcetti in a virtual tie, with Greuel leading by one point. The poll reflects a dramatic drop from a USC/LA Timespoll one month ago showing Garcetti with a 10-point lead. But no snapshot of voters’ preferences can take into account the unforeseen consequences to Garcetti’s campaign ...
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5/7/2013
With Gov. Jack Markell’s signature late Tuesday, Delaware becomes the 11th state plus Washington, D.C., to allow marriage equality—just five days after Rhode Island. In a moving moment, State Sen. Karen Peterson came out as a lesbian in supporting House Bill 75. “We are not seeking to redefine marriage,” Peterson said. “We are seeking to expand the definition of marriage just as the Supreme Court did in the Loving v. Virginia case.”
Meanwhile, in anti-gay Christian-sotted ...
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4/25/2013
The days are now galloping toward Los Angeles’ May 21 runoffs, with anxiety rising not only over who will win but who will decide who wins. Voter turnout for the March 5 primary was so abysmal, campaigns are fretting about how to inspire election-weary residents to pay attention and care about who will lead and run the country’s second largest city.
A new USC/LA Times poll shows L.A. Councilmember Eric Garcetti leading Controller ...
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4/12/2013
When President Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2010, Army Sgt. Tracey Cooper-Harris—a Pasadena, Calif., resident—had already been out of the military for seven years. During her 12 years of military service, which included posts in Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan, she earned more than two dozen medals and commendations and the respect of her peers and superiors.
Throughout her distinguished career in the United States Army, Sgt. Cooper-Harris served with the knowledge ...
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4/12/2013
From 1987 to roughly 1995, the mostly white gay community united through ACT UP and other HIV/AIDS organizations to sear the idea into the public consciousness that health care is a right, not a privilege. With the advent of lifesaving HIV medications, that unity of purpose dissolved, and health care once again became an issue of individual “personal responsibility.”
[Photo credit: (From left to right) Gautam Raghavan, LGBT Liaison, The White House; Norma Roque, Reporter, ...
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4/2/2013
A two-year investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office into credit card abuse by West Hollywood City Councilmember John Duran has been unceremoniously dropped, WeHo News reported late Monday afternoon. WeHo News reports:
Saying, “The District Attorney has let us know that they’ve completed their investigation and they will not be bringing any criminal charges against John Duran or any other elected official in the city of West Hollywood in the matter regarding ...
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3/29/2013
Public support for the rights of LGBT people, including marriage equality, is burgeoning at a rate previously unseen in the politics of civil rights in this country. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll puts support for same-sex marriage at an all-time high of 58 percent, with only 36 percent opposed. And the future seems bright—81 percent of under-30s favor marriage equality. Even among Americans 65 and older, 44 percent would permit gays to wed, ...
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