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Prop 8 ‘Eve of Justice’ Vigils Held Across California: Round-Up

Andy Towle March 5, 2009

Vigils were held across California on Wednesday night in anticipation of the Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of the voter-passed … [Read more...] about Prop 8 ‘Eve of Justice’ Vigils Held Across California: Round-Up

Andy Towle December 3, 2008

Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman (whose boycott lead to the resignation of Sacramento's California Musical Theatre creative director Scott Eckern … [Read more...] about Neil Patrick Harris and Jack Black in Prop 8: The Musical

Andy Towle November 24, 2008

The California Highway Patrol estimated that 5,000 people showed up on the steps of the California capitol building on Saturday in the latest major … [Read more...] about Marriage Equality Supporters March on Sacramento

Andy Towle November 17, 2008

A reader pointed me to this article in the Sacramento Bee about stepped-up security around Mormon churches as a result of the recent protests. One … [Read more...] about Mormons Have Embedded Police Officials Watching Out for Them?

Andy Towle November 12, 2008

Following revelations of artistic director Scott Eckern's contribution to the campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California and the subsequent … [Read more...] about California Musical Theatre Director Scott Eckern Steps Down

Andy Towle November 11, 2008

California Musical Theatre is Sacramento's "oldest professional performing arts organization and California's largest nonprofit musical theater … [Read more...] about Musical Theatre Under Fire for Artistic Director’s Prop 8 Support

Andy Towle September 25, 2008

The body of a transgender woman who CBS 13 reports was in the process of transitioning to a female was pulled from the American River near Sacramento … [Read more...] about Body of Transgender Woman Pulled from River Near Sacramento

Andy Towle August 8, 2008

In June I posted that a jury had deadlocked over hate crime charges in the murder of Fijian immigrant Satendar Singh near Sacramento over the 4th of … [Read more...] about Killer of Gay Sacramento Man Gets 150 Days in Prison

Andy Towle August 1, 2008

A Sacramento man leaving a party in San Francisco's Mission District that was being held in conjunction with the Up Your Alley leather fair was … [Read more...] about Gay Man Stabbed Leaving Leather Party in San Francisco

Andy Towle June 19, 2008

A mistrial has been declared in the anti-gay hate crime murder trial of 21-year-old Aleksandr Shevchenko, accused of killing Fijian-immigrant Satendar … [Read more...] about Mistrial in Satendar Singh Anti-Gay Hate Crime Murder Trial