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If you are free Sunday evening, please join us at Hoi Polloi for a “house” party for Joe Hoeffel. Joe will be joining us via videoconference to take your live questions. So this is a great opportunity to talk informally with the campaign staff AND to ask your specific questions. We'll have some of Hoi Polloi's […]
They had me when I saw this … Partner/Spouse! We even get top billing.
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I promise I will post about the Mayor's LGBT Advisory Council meeting. I can't promise to be particularly witty. I've been debriefed by no less than five people about this meeting, including someone from the Mayor's team, so I'm already a little over it. However, I spent more than 12 months pushing for this Council […]
Some good news from the PA Supreme Superior Court … In an opinion that at once awarded homosexual parents equal custody rights and criticized a Dauphin County Common Pleas judge for potential gender bias, the state Superior Court overturned a 25-year-old precedent. The previous precedent, the court wrote in a 7-1 opinion, set a presumption […]
Tonight, the Mayor's LGBT Advisory Committee will be holding its first meeting with representatives of the community. I will be live tweeting the meeting so you can be there, too! The invitation asked us to bring along our top three concerns/issues related to the LGBT community in Pittsburgh. I have one very concrete, easy to address […]
Good news from West Virginia. (h/t Fairness West Virginia) GOP delegates unsuccessfully tried to force a floor vote on a bipartisan resolution (HJR5) called the “Marriage Protection Amendment.” The proposal calls for a statewide referendum on whether to amend West Virginia's constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. This week, Republicans […]
This was posted as a DailyKOS diary yesterday. Thoughtful people are not buying into the idea that we must capitulate on equality to run a viable candidate in the general election. [T]here's also a need to be bold enough that if you win, you have a mandate to actually pass laws that address the problems […]
My list of PA and Pgh politician tweeps continues to grow. I”m up to 87 accounts now. http://twitter.com/PghLesbian24/politicians-pgh-and-pa Republicans are jumping on board the social media wagon at a much faster rate than Democrats. I did add the PA House Democratic Campaign Committee and Dan Keller who is running for the House seat in the […]
