From the Network: Health Care Reform IS an LGBT Issue!
Post from Daniel Gould, coordinator of the LGBT Health and Human Services Network, a project of the Equality California Institute. The Network is a statewide coalition of LGBT and allied organizations working to provide health and human s

Lessons from Maine: The Atlantic interviews Geoff Kors
The Atlantic's Chris Good chats with EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors about what California can learn from the recent loss in the Maine election. [Origional post]After voters in Maine repealed the state's legalization of gay marriage this past Tuesday by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent, California's gay-marriage activists are still gearing up for a challenge to overturn Proposition 8. Some want to put a measure on the ballot in 2010; others, in 2012. What follows is a lightly edited interview from Thursday evening

Equality still making gains
Despite a setback in Maine, equality took steps forward in Michigan, Washington State and Florida.This week citizens in Kalamazoo, MI upheld a city ordinance that includes sexual orientation and gender identity in its anti-discrimination laws. Anti-LGBT opponents launched a nasty, ugly campaign targeting and outing individual residents of the tight-knit community, distributing their photos and exploiting their lives as an attempted scare tactic. In the end these vile and irresponsible tactics may have backfired. Citing a landslide victory, state House Judiciary Chairman Mark Meadows, a Democrat from East Lansing,

Bloggers agree: time to demand action from President Obama
A day after less than six percent of voters decided to rip away marriage equality in Maine, bloggers across cyberspace are telling President Obama enough is enough!David Mixner called the administration’s ducking of the issue “cowardly.” Andrew Sullivan compared Obama’s disregard for LGBT Americans to President Kennedy’s neglect of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Dan Savage

From the Field: Mainers still standing strong
Gabe Gonzalez is the EQCA Field Manager for the Inland Empire. He has spent the last two weeks in Maine working for the No on 1 campaign, discovering that victories come in many shapes and sizes. Two weeks ago I arrived to a beautiful Maine with trees so colorful that they made me f