CHECK IT: Fog City mayor’s reaction.

The other photos are also pretty awesome.

CHECK IT: Tears of joy.

Amen!

Today is a major day in queer history: The California Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage.

Gov. Arnold promised that he won’t support a constitutional amendment that would overturn the court’s ruling.

See how Meredith is in the moderator’s chair? This was taped before O’Donnell officially became a panelist.

California’s Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed up at the Log Cabin Republican’s national convention last weekend in San Diego, and he told those attending that he would “always be there to fight against” efforts to amend the California Constitution to prohibit legal same-sex marriage.

It seems to be a bit of a reverse for Schwarzenegger who has twice vetoed bills passed by the state’s Legislature to legalize gay marriage. But so far there’s been no word from his office on how the governor reconciles those vetoes with his vow to fight the amendment.

You can read a short article on Schwarzenegger’s appearance at the LCR convention and see a video of his speech here at the Web site for CBS News 8 in San Diego. And watch for more on this story in the April 18 issue of Dallas Voice.

I originally wrote this as just a comment to a comment to John Wright’s post immediately below this. But I wanted to make sure more people read it.

What passes for “pro-gay” these days: 

Before readers like Anna bend over backward in praise of Jackie Floyd’s homoliberalism, here’s a reminder. When “Brokeback Mountain” came out, Floyd wrote a piece for the DMN with the cringe-inducing headline, “‘Brokeback ignores plight of spouses.” Her take: A love story about two closeted men was deeply flawed — she claimed to be “annoyed” — because the screenplay had no sympathy for the wives of Jack and Ennis.

Let’s overlook for just a moment that she was downright wrong about that; in fact, Ennis’ wife is portrayed as something of a victim herself, cuckolded and brokenhearted when she discovers the truth (Michelle Williams justly received an Oscar nomination for the performance). But the movie touches, as much as it needs to, the tragedy to EVERYONE resulting from social norms that didn’t (don’t?) permit people to openly love whomever they love. But I wonder if Floyd is “annoyed” that “Romeo & Juliet” “doesn’t give enough space to why Lord Montague hates Lord Capulet; after all, children can’t be expected to know as much as their parents — there are probably decent reasons for the family feud — why does Shakespeare give short shrift to the real victims of the doomed love affair, mom and dad?”

In Floyd’s own words: “One of the characters sums up the bleak reality of his marriage when he says, ‘I guess I’m stuck with what I’ve got here.’ He makes it sound like jail.” Anyone who DOESN’T believe that being required to hide your identity is WORSE than jail doesn’t “get” being gay. If that makes FLoyd “pro-gay,” god save us from those who are just indifferent.

The DMN is lucky Floyd isn’t their film critic. I think we’re all lucky she’s not the HRC’s spokesperson, too.

Thursday the Philadelphia Gay News web site epgn.com released a wide ranging interview with Hillary Clinton. She needs a strong win in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary to keep her candidacy alive and she hopes LGBT voters will help boost her margin of victory. The interview covers topics as varied as same-sex marriage, immigration policy, the execution of gay people in the Middle East and Africa, “Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell,” gay youth and gay seniors, and more. What’s missing? Any outreach to the LGBT press from her rival Barack Obama. The Obama campaign continues to shrug off repeated requests from the LGBT press for an interview with the candidate, despite (according to PGN Publisher Mark Segal) pressure from Sen. Bob Casey, PA, who just gave his highly sought after endorsement to Obama. To make the point that Obama is ignoring gay media, PGN left a huge section of it’s print edition Page One blank. Reportedly, Casey is stressing the fact that the LGBT vote is a critical part of the cooalition the Democratric Party will need to win in November and Obama needs to court it, not ignore.

The year’s best April Fools Joke winner.

I got an e-mail just a few minutes ago, letting me know that Concerned Women for America is rallying the troops and will join with “over 50 pastors” in staging a “Free Speech Rally for Sally” on Wednesday, April 2, at noon in the Rotunda of the Oklahoma State Building in Oklahoma City.

(Just a side note: I find it interesting that all the e-mails I get from the Concerned Women for America come from a man — Matt Barber, CWA’s “policy director for cultural issues.”)

This rally, of course, is to support Okla. State Rep. Sally Kern, who has come under fire in recent weeks after a speech she made to a group of Republican supporters was secretly taped and posted on YouTube.com. In that speech, Rep. Kern compared LGBT people to cancer and said we are a bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorism and Islam. The gay activists, of course, responded quickly and have staged at least two large protests in Oklahoma City.

Now the right-wingers are coming to Sally’s aid. Here’s what Matt Barber’s e-mail said, in part:

On Wednesday, April 2, Concerned Women for America (CWA) will join over 50 pastors in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to rally support for State Representative Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City) and her right to free speech. Recently, Rep. Kern has been under attack from radical homosexual activists and their followers over remarks she made regarding the homosexual agenda. Rep. Kern took a Biblical stand against homosexual activism and has refused to back down from her statements despite receiving death threats.

CWA applauds Rep. Kern for continuing to be steadfast and resolute in this fight against the homosexual agenda and for shedding light on the threat it poses to our nation. Rep. Kern has been quoted as saying that the homosexual agenda is dangerous “because it destroys the basic moral fiber of this nation, which is traditional marriage and the traditional family.” She couldn’t be more right.

Matt Barber, CWA’s Policy Director for Cultural Issues, said, “There are certainly those who hate Rep. Kern. They’ve made that perfectly clear with vicious personal attacks and even death threats. But millions of Americans proudly stand alongside Sally Kern and say, ‘Thank you. Thank you for boldly standing your ground and for unapologetically defending Biblical Truth.’ They intended to make an example of her. They have, but not in the way they had hoped. She has set an example for millions of believers around the world. Her courage and refusal to deviate from God’s unequivocal condemnation of sexual immorality is serving to galvanize and embolden others. People say, ‘Well Sally Kern wasn’t intimidated, why should I be?’”

Just thought I’d let you all know what’s going on in OKC. Just in case anybody feels the need to go exercise their free speech rights.

MTVU editorial board gets a sitdown with Bill Clinton, and this fabulous collegian from Massachusetts takes Bill to task over Melissa Etheridge’s recent criticism that Bill threw the gay community under the bus by signing DOMA.And Bill gets all testy.

Glad to see the kids in 2008 aren’t total wimps.

— Daniel A. Kusner