Denise L. Eger
By Denise L. Eger
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Opinion Amid the pandemic and protests, celebrating 50 years of marching for LQBTQ rights
Fifty years ago, in June of 1970, the gay communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City gathered to commemorate the Stonewall Riots that had happened a year earlier, the moment when many say the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights movement began. In Los Angeles, led by Rev. Troy Perry,…
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Opinion The Apartheid of Love
The California Supreme Court will hear legal arguments on March 5 about Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage that was approved in November by 52% of the state’s voters. The point of law at issue is whether or not Proposition 8 constitutes a legal revision to the state constitution. I am not a…
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