Malinda Lo

This Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the Rev. Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as assistant bishop. Rev. Glasspool, if approved by a majority of dioceses in the church, would then become the second openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. (The first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, was elected in 2003.) This ... More→

Today, Oct. 11, is National Coming Out Day. It was also the day of the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. I was not there, but I followed it on Twitter for a while, and this is one of my favorite signs I saw: I’ve had a few people ask me about my own coming-out ... More→

Last night I went to the protest rally following the California Supreme Court decision to uphold Proposition 8, which makes same-sex marriage illegal in California. I haven’t read the decision, but I did read portions of it, and I just wanted to pull out my favorite quote from Justice Carlos Moreno’s lone dissenting opinion: “There ... More→

Yesterday I live-blogged the Proposition 8 hearings in San Francisco for 365gay.com. It was a long and draining but exhilarating day; you can read my blog posts about it here and here, and see a replay of the live blog here. Although many analysts aren’t feeling very positive after the hearings, I refuse to write ... More→

Today, Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the United States’ 44th president, and its first African-American one. What many might call his charmed candidacy and election has been marred, in my opinion, by his invitation to the homophobic Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Partly as a move to appease angered LGBT ... More→

Like thousands of other people across the U.S. and the world today, I protested the passage of Proposition 8. It might have been abnormally hot in San Francisco today, but everybody was in a good mood. Lots of people seemed to enjoy the sign that my girlfriend and I made: Here are some more excellent ... More→