Today Mayor Vince Gray joined Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in criticizing the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-marriage equality group that was recently found to have tried to drive a wedge between gays and African Americans.

NOM’s Brian Brown. Wait, what? After being handed yet another defeat this week in the form of a 5-4 decision backing the District’s decision not to allow a referendum on marriage equality, opponents of same-sex marriage aren’t admitting defeat — they’re claiming that getting defeated was all part of the plan. In a statement released yesterday, the National Organization for Marriage — on tour now! — argued that while they’ve lost every battle along…

Photo from NOM’s Flickr page. GLAA Forum tips us off to what may well be the must-see summer tour of 2010 — the National Organization for Marriage’s Summer for Marriage Tour 2010. Starting next week, the organization, which has lobbied against same-sex marriage across the country, will set off on a tour of the East coast and Midwest, hoping to better organize groups willing to fight to protect traditional marriage. Says the organization: One…

Photo by clarissa.stark During his year-long struggle to stop same-sex marriage from becoming law in the District, Bishop Harry Jackson has loudly claimed to speak on behalf of the many District residents he says oppose marriage equality. But as campaign finance documents show, none of those residents seem terribly invested in his cause. GLAA Forum did some digging into the recent campaign finance filings of three organizations created by Jackson, and found that of…