• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida

• Gay marriage ban backers in California seek U.S. Supreme Court review

  BY LISA LEFF, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Backers of California's ban on same-sex marriages asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to overrule a federal appeals court that struck down the measure as unconstitutional, a move that means the bitter, four-year court fight over Proposition 8 could soon be [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Columnist Michael Musto: Jeffersons' star 'Sherman Hemsley Was A Gay! Deal With It!'

  Village Voice columnist Michael Musto has written a column headlined Jeffersons' star "Sherman Hemsley Was A Gay! Deal With It!"

  Click here to read it.

  ' [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Pew poll: 65 percent of Democrats support gay marriage, compared to 24 percent of Republicans

  BY DAVID CRARY, AP NATIONAL WRITER

  NEW YORK -- The partisan gap over same-sex marriage continues to widen, with 65 percent of Democrats now supporting it compared to 24 percent of Republicans, according to poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.

  The poll found an increase in [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Democrats move to formally back gay marriage in this year's official party platform

  BY JULIE PACE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party is moving to include support for gay marriage in the official party platform for the first time, a Democratic official said Monday, marking a key milestone for advocates of same-sex unions.

  The party's platform drafting committee voted to include [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Former Vice President Dick Cheney defends his silence on gay marriage during 2000 campaign

  ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney says he didn't see the point of raising the issue of gay marriage in the 2000 presidential campaign, even though he supported it.

  The former vice president suggested it wouldn't have done much good and probably would have sunk President George W. Bush's prospects [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Golden-age movie star Gary Cooper has digital career revival

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  A 90-second cameo in the movies’ first Best Picture propelled actor Gary Cooper into superstardom.

  “People wrote in by the droves, ‘Who is that young flier [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Unlikely Vietnam considers same-sex marriage

  BY MARGIE MASON, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  HANOI, Vietnam -- Dinh Thi Hong Loan grasps her girlfriend's hand, and the two gaze into each other's love-struck eyes. Smiling, [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• South Florida band All The Pretty Cars to play Speakeasy Lounge in Lake Worth Aug. 6

  From singer Gea Gamboa of the band All The Pretty Cars:

  This year we played the "Girls in Wonderland" events (sharing the bill with Uh Huh Her) along with the Florida Music Festival in Orlando Florida where it was estimated that out of  50,000 bands, only 150 bands were selected to play this [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, wife MacKenzie give $2.5 million to defend Washington gay marriage law

  BY RACHEL LA CORTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced Friday they are donating $2.5 million to the campaign to defend Washington's same-sex marriage law.

  With the gift, [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Gallery | Miami-Dade Gay Chamber holds Business Builders Luncheon at City Hall - The Restaurant

  The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce held its Business Builders Luncheon — Downtown Thursday at City Hall - The Restaurant, 2004 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The luncheon is a networking program held on the last Thursday of each month.

  Click here to view a gallery from the [...]

  Share  |  Rate