Tag: California

A California baker is facing a boycott after she refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. Eileen Del Rio and fiancée Wendy hoped to find the wedding cake of their dreams at Tastries Bakery. Instead, they had a terrible encounter with shop owner, Cathy Miller. According to the engaged couple, Miller indicated that she wouldn't be able to design their cake because she's Christian, and couldn't celebrate a same-sex marriage. Del Rio wrote about the encounter in a post shared...

The Doctor Who star collapsed 'in agony' in California on Tuesday (July 25). John Barrowman has been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after collapsing “in agony” on Tuesday (July 25). The Doctor Who star, 50, was taken to Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, where he was diagnosed with appendicitis. After being told by doctors that his appendix needed to be removed immediately, Barrowman underwent surgery in the early hours of Wednesday (July 26). The surgery proved a success and the...

A California pastor has claimed that Satan is responsible for gay weddings. The claim comes from pastor Jim Garlow, the pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, Garlow suggested that gay couple getting married is a Satanic plot. The pastor claimed that the marriage of men and women in the Bible He said: “You put male and female together, ish and ishah, and you get yod hey – that’s the name for God. “That’s the...

Congrats to Ryan Jordan Santana! A gay baseball player came out publicly on live TV last night (24 April). Ryan Jordan Santana, who played at a Christian university in California, is a professional for the Golden Grove Dodgers in Adelaide, Australia. He came out to his teammates and his mother for the first time as part of TLC’s series This Is Life Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgigwJOBGE On the show, the host asked Santana ‘why come out to your family on national television.’ ‘I feel like I struggled...

Coachella – Home of live music, Californian sun, and washboard abs.  Coachella’s 18th festival kicked off this weekend, so you know what that means… It’s time to round up all the hottest guys from Instagram and drool over them to perk us up after a long weekend – did we mention how much we love our job? Call us thirsty etc, but we know you’ll be scrolling down this page. How can you resist the tiny speedos and six-pack abs? Take a look at some...

Crowds gather for the Women’s Mach in downtown Los Angeles. California is losing its chill — another major protest against Trump is on its way. The demonstration is being planned to coincide with Los Angeles Pride and the National Pride March in Washington D.C., so mark your calendar for June 11 and prepare to get loud. (But by all means stay loud until then, also.) At the rate things are going, Donald Trump’s presidency will go down as the dawn of...

Education State Officials in California have voted for LGBT history to be taught in schools. According to the LA Times, the state’s Board of Education voted unanimously on teaching children in schools “a study of the role of contributions” from “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans”. LGBT content will be part of the inclusive material taught in some elementary, middle and high schools in California, making it the first US state to teach the community’s history in education. Students will learn about...

All Out, a global LGBT rights organization that fights for equality by connecting supporters at the grass roots level in many countries, has created an online tool that has one purpose; to identify and eradicate the heinous gay “cure” therapies, no matter where they are or what they are. As a non-profit organization, All Out gets its funding for all of its programs from its members.  The logic behind this tool is to give their members and international counterparts a...

California Test of 2008 Turn back the clock…..to June 16, 2008 when in California, gay marriage was made legal. The law was passed by the Supreme Court of California that disallowing same-sex couples from marriage was a direct violation of civil rights based on the California State Constitution. On June 17th, my wife and I were married, but it was no easy feat.  While the world thinks California is a liberal state full of happy queers and Dykes on Bikes,...