Etheridge, Girlfriend to Wed

(NEWSER) - A new Los Angeles Times poll shows why gay marriage advocates and opponents are targeting LA Latinos after Proposition 8: Unlike African Americans, they are divided on the issue. While African American voters oppose gay marriage by 54% to 37%, Latinos are split, 45% in favor and 46% against. Among Latinos, women, the young, and the college-educated tend to approve of same-sex nuptials. More»

Tammy Lynn Michaels extends olive branch to controversial evangelist

(NEWSER) - Melissa Etheridge's significant other goes to bat for right-wing pastor Rick Warren, calling him "the man the media has made our latest 'HE HATES YOU!' target." In fact, he doesn't hate gays, Tammy Lynn Michaels writes on her Hollywood Farm Girl blog. Melissa, who recently met him, found that the pastor "is warm, caring, effusive, and LOVES gays." More»

Intimate ceremony in the works since May

(NEWSER) - Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s intimate wedding will take place this weekend in California, Us Weekly reports. The daytime gabber and her 35-year-old bride announced their intentions to wed following the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling this spring. "Planning a wedding is very stressful. It's crazy. My gardener is now invited," DeGeneres, 50, has said. More»

34,000 plants growing in Topanga State Park

(NEWSER) - A $100 million marijuana plantation was destroyed by a police raid in Topanga State Park in Los Angeles on Friday. The 34,000-plant operation deep in the park's back country is the largest busted by cops in the Santa Monica Mountains in seven years, reports the Los Angeles Times . No one was arrested, but three men were spotted fleeing the scene. Park rangers and sheriff's deputies discovered the operation after finding a dam that was diverting water from a creek to irrigate the plants in the park, which is located entirely within LA city limits. More»

Tammy Lynn Michaels explains the accident

(NEWSER) - Melissa Etheridge's battle with ex Tammy Lynn Michaels is grinding on, and it's still nasty : TMZ reported earlier this week that Michaels is unhappy with the $23,000 per month in support she gets from Etheridge, and filed to have that amount increased. Etheridge fired back with legal documents of her own, E! reports, in which she accused Michaels of once accidentally burning their son with a cigarette. Now Michaels is defending herself … in poem form. On her blog , Michaels explains that she had stood apart from her kids and asked them to stay away for a minute because she was "doing my bad habit," but "kids … don't always listen, do they?" More»