GLBT issues heat up on the East Coast

All eyes are on California in 2009. That is the hot spot for GLBT civil rights in the new year. In March, the State Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a move to overturn Prop 8 as unconstitutional. The decision will be handed down 90 days later. In the meantime, the infamous, mean-spirited, self-righteous Ken Starr (yes, the Ken Starr who spent millions of taxpayer dollars trying to bring down the Clintons) is up to his old tricks. He filed a brief in November 2008 requesting that all same-sex marriages in California that occurred while it was legal be nullified. That’s right. He wants to divorce 18,000 couples. (On behalf of the Christians and Mormons, of course.) I almost got carried away here. I want in the worst way to go on a verbal rampage over this one, but that’s not the purpose of East Coast Tribbelations. I’ll save that one for my own blog. Anyway, it’s not hard to see why the focus is on the Left Coast.

But, there are big doings on the East Coast as well! That’s why I’m including a link to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) update I just received. It’s a state-by-state breakdown of everything going on in 2009 up and down the eastern seaboard.

For those of you who may not be familiar with the Human Rights Campaign (although I can’t imagine any GLBT person not knowing them), I’ve included a link to their website as well.

Thanks, Harv, for giving me the opportunity to blog on your site. I promise to write a lengthier piece later.