As many of you may have already figured out, we hear at Speak Equal took a bit of a blogging recess this past summer. Nothing horribly and dramatic happened, merely several of our teammates and moving parts had a summer chock full of classes, work, training, and travel. With that being said, it’s...

California State Sen. Roy Ashburn has become the first gay recipient of the “Pink Brick Award.” The award, given by the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Committee, highlights a person (or organization) who has done the most to anger and/or disappoint the gay community....

SAN FRANCISCO — At the oldest law school in the West, law is being made this semester, not just taught. In a case that carries great implications for how public universities and schools must accommodate religious groups, the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law is defending...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Several civil rights groups that campaigned against California’s same-sex marriage ban have lost an attempt to keep internal memos and e-mails from lawyers for the other side. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Monday that they must surrender the campaign...

If you think our school systems have not faced a “queer(er)” than most prom scandal before, then you’re wrong. We’ll all have to admit that the fact that a young teen has to plea before a federal court for her right to take who she wants to her own prom is pretty extreme, however...

There is a unique study now underway to help determine which online strategies are preferred by webmasters, public health experts and users for how to reduce HIV and STD infections among gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) who meet partners online. Many sites already have...

Last Friday, the LGBT Resource Center at the University of California at Davis was vandalized. Someone spray painted several anti-LGBT slurs on the Center’s door and building. The staff of the Center responded with a letter published in the student newspaper saying: As a center we wanted not to immediately...

A lesbian prosecutor in San Diego credited with coordinating high-profile narcotics cases along the U.S.-Mexico border was nominated Wednesday by President Obama to be United States attorney for the Southern District of California. If confirmed by the Senate, Laura Duffy would become the second openly...

The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old...

“I take it as a gift that someone will be that open and honest and sharing with me,” said Rio, using the word “open” to describe their marriage. Love brought the middle-age couple together — they wed during California’s brief legal window for same-sex marriage. But they knew from the beginning...