Two newspapers and the openly gay mayor of West Sacramento knew that California State Sen. Roy Ashburn was gay and said nothing about it, despite Ashburn’s anti-gay voting record. As Tammye noted ...

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Three months after homophobic California State Sen. Roy Ashburn got caught driving drunk after leaving a gay bar, he was back on the floor of the Senate casting votes on two gay-rights bills.

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The family-values California Republican legislator who was reported to have been at a gay club on the night last week that he was arrested for drunk driving has acknowledged he is gay. “I’m gay,” ...

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Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. SAN FRANCISCO — In a Monday interview on a California radio talk show, Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn said he is gay.

There was a lot of laughter after California state senator Roy Ashburn got nabbed for DUI outside Faces, a gay club in Sacramento. Ashburn’s a Republican and has voted against gay rights measures and ...

This past Thursday, former state Sen. Roy Ashburn made official his run for Kern County supervisor, something he'd surprisingly announced he was thinking of doing in late January. The same day, The ...