Tag Archives: Sacramento

Formerly closeted California state Sen. Roy Ashburn has been sentenced to two days in jail and three years of probation for last month’s DUI arrest as he left a Sacramento gay bar with a young Latino man in the front seat. Ashburn entered his no contest plea to the misdemeanor charges Wednesday in Sacramento County Superior Court. He will also …

Openly gay state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano joined a large group of protesters at the state capitol in Sacramento yesterday to protest Gov. Schwarzenegger’s plan to slash funding from the ADAP budget, which provides free to low cost HIV meds to the uninsured. Rex Wockner adds: Further, the current plan apparently completely eliminates state funding for the tests that determine if …

Pam’s House Blend contributor Autumn Sandeen and fellow trans-advocate Kim Pearson will appear on Sacramento’s KRXQ radio station this Thursday after the station’s hosts apologized for saying last week that they would beat transgender behavior out of their kids. The station suffered a massive pull-back in advertiser support after trans and gay bloggers took their outrage to the media. The …

Several major advertisers have pulled their support from Sacramento radio station KRXQ after its hosts suggested beating transgender behavior out of children. Via GLAAD, below is a partial transcript of the show. ROB WILLIAMS [11:12]: This is a weird person who is demanding attention. And when it’s a child, all it takes is a hug, maybe some tough love or …

Kathy Griffin appeared at the conclusion of a cross-state march for marriage equality in Sacramento to reference Sally Fields’ Oscar-winning “UNION” moment in Norma Rae. That bit starts at 6:30.

Over 5000 marriage equality activists rallied at the capitol in Sacramento on Saturday, where Margaret Cho performed a filthy protest song about the Mormon Church. Audio NSFW. (Via – Queerty)

Remember Scott Eckern, the musical theater artistic director who donated $1000 to Yes On 8 and caused a huge uproar? He’s resigned from his job for the “protection of the organization.” California Musical Theatre’s artistic director, Scott Eckern, resigned from his post today amid controversy over a donation he made to the Proposition 8 campaign to ban gay marriage. Eckern …

The title of this post is lifted from John Aravosis at AmericaBlog who reports: A friend tells me that there’s a BIG musical theater in Sacramento, California called the California Music theater. It’s been around for decades and, you might be shocked by this, but apparently there are gays who work in musical theater. Well, anyway, word get around in …

Queerty reports that last night in Sacramento pro and anti-8 crowds violently clashed, resulting in several arrests. Demonstrations over Proposition 8 continue this morning after they turned violent over the weekend with police making arrests, ticketing motorists and trying to keep the peace at a Citrus Heights intersection where hundreds of demonstrators on both sides of the gay marriage issued …

The LA Times has an interesting piece on the continuing clash between Sacramento’s gay community and the thousands of evangelical Slavic immigrants who have relocated there in recent years. With as many as 100,000 newcomers from republics such as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Sacramento region has one of the nation’s largest concentrations of Soviet immigrants. Most began arriving …