Straight, But Not Narrow... Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom is the former mayor of San Francisco & current Lieutenant Governor of the great state of California. He’s is unashamedly in favor of full equality for gay people & he has always been a strong voice for us. There are very few politicians as open as this handsome man. I am pinning my hopes on Newsom being president some day. He turns 44 years old today.

"Not every Democrat in Washington agrees with gay marriage. But I will make the case, based on some strong evidence that an overwhelming majority do. But they just can’t say it. & that is a limitation that is causing more damage than the issue. Because, again, it shows a weakness of character.

This is really one of the great final civil rights struggles, & again I say to my colleagues in the Democratic party: Why are you a Democrat if you can’t stand on a fundamental construct that has always distinguished our party. That we didn’t sit around. We advanced the issues of equality. We engaged the American people head on.”

Newsom describes our one night together

This Week In Gay History

In May the Tennessee Senate passed a bill that would make it illegal for teachers to even mention homosexuality in any context before 9 grade. That bill is expected to go to the Tennessee House in 2012.

Tuesday the California Assembly passed a bill that requires schools to include the accomplishments of LGBT people in their history lessons at all grade levels. The Democrat-controlled Assembly voted 49 to 25 for the FAIR Education Act. The Senate approved the measure in April. It now goes to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature. Brown is expected to sign it. Assembly Speaker John Perez, a Democrat from LA, the first openly gay Speaker of the California State Assembly, had urged lawmakers to approve a measure. The bill's sponsor, Sate Senator Mark Leno, Democrat from San Francisco:

"It’s no different than instructing students about the historical role of an African-American man by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., fighting for civil rights & being assassinated for his efforts than teaching students about a gay American man by the name of Harvey Milk fighting for every man’s civil rights & being assassinated for his efforts. Why deny all students the benefit of that knowledge?"