It's no secret that the biggest homophobes are often also the biggest closet cases. Just look at people like Reverend Ted Haggard, Senator Larry Craig and most gay bashers. Hak-Shing William Tam, one of the most vocal supporters of California's Prop 8 and one of the original defendants in the federal trial currently going on, might just be one of these self-haters.

Now we have Maine rejecting marriage equality. The results in Maine, a state that is 95.3% white, make it clear that we can't blame the people of color who live there. So who do we blame? My hunch is that rural white voters are on the hook. But the blame placed on rural white voters will be very different in its tenor and tone than Prop 8.

I guess it was just a matter of time. The anti-gay-marriage crowd has received the approval from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to begin collecting signatures to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot that would ban divorce in the state.

Once again, Congressmember Judy Chu (CA-32) has proven herself to be a strong ally of the gay and lesbian community by voting, and voicing, her support for the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The bill pass by a vote of 281-146 and now goes to a final ratification by the U.S. Senate early next week.