Vermont judge awards sole custody of daughter to non-bio lesbian mom

In a striking decision, a Vermont judge yesterday granted sole custody of 7-year-old Isabella Miller to her non-biological mother, Janet Jenkins, Mombian, the lesbian-mom’s blog, reports.
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If It Walks Like a Wedding and Talks Like a Wedding.... Ceremonies and the International Gay Marriage Fight

In Austria and Australia, the fight over gay rights has focused on civil union ceremonies. Why the fuss over near-weddings?
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Austria's Gays Get Civil Unions! (With 37 Fewer Rights That Married Heteros!)

So Austria's gays were just granted civil union rights! This means they can get a pretty piece of paper, just like heterosexual couples, and involve themselves in their partners' social security claims and inheritance rights and tax filings and pensions and stuff.
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Sweden’s Lutheran church names first lesbian bishop

(Stockholm) Sweden's Lutheran church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave clergy the right to wed same-sex couples.
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Aussie Territory Upholds Separate but Equal

But as we all know, there really is no such thing as separate but equal, but regardless, this may be considered to be a step in the “left” direction.
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Gay-Marriage Fight Heads to New Jersey

Washington Post Gay-Marriage Fight Heads to New JerseyWall Street JournalGay-marriage advocates have resisted "civil union" licenses, saying the separate term is demeaning and the status isn't honored by many employers.
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Supreme Court hears gay marriage case

WISC Supreme Court hears gay marriage caseFox11online.comMADISON - A Door County man made his case to the state Supreme Court Tuesday that the wording of a 2006 referendum on gay marriage and civil union rights .
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A Change of Heart

"In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions. I came to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.
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Maine’s Gov Urges Voters to Keep Equality

Maine’s Governor, John Baldacci has publicly urged the state’s residents to vote against repealing the recent legislation that made same-sex marriage legal.
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Maine gov urges residents to vote for gay marriage

(Bangor, Maine) Maine Gov. John Baldacci is urging residents to vote against repealing the state's same-sex marriage law while acknowledging his past opposition to gay marriage.
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Maine gov urges residents to vote for gay marriage

Washington Post Maine gov urges residents to vote for gay marriageThe Associated PressBaldacci said Tuesday that he once preferred civil unions to gay marriage but came to believe a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.
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Governor Baldacci and Others Endorse No On 1, Urge Mainers To Protect Marriage Equality

Okay, now HERE WE GO!!!

For Immediate Release:

Governor Baldacci Joins Maine Families in Bangor For Final GOTV Push For NO on 1

Bangor, Maine (October 27, 2009) -

Governor John E.
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Anatomy of a Slur (Part 2)

by David Link

The central deception fabricated against us in the SFMM ad, “They Said” is that while we promised we wouldn’t push same-sex marriage on schoolchildren, we can’t be trusted.
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Gay Irish boy band singer dies in Mallorca

Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site Sunday.
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New Hampshire Couples Can Get Their Marriage Licenses...

... as of this week.

Gay couples can now apply for marriage licenses in New Hampshire - though the unions can't be performed until Jan.
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KEVIN MCGEE

Today’s gay news is sadly dominated by the suicide of Kevin McGee, a shock to read, to even understand and devastation for his ex-civil partner the comedian, actor and writer Matt Lucas.
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Marriage Thoughts

My partner and I (both lesbians nearing age 60) are going to get married next week. Legally. By virtue of the courage of 124 Vermont state legislators in voting to override the Republican Governor's veto last May.
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Go, Maine, Go!

By the time this diary goes live, I will be at  a BIG meeting all evening and unavailable for the evening, listening to what progress has been made and finding out what more still needs to be done.
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John Berry: ENDA's first

OPM director John Berry talked a bit about LGBT legislation coming up, and he's saying that ENDA is first thing that'll have to pass:

"The most important thing we can do right now is we got to .
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Meg Whitman: My Anti-Gay Marriage Stance is Not 'a Slap in the ...

Meg Whitman: My Anti-Gay Marriage Stance is Not 'a Slap in the ...Towleroad (blog)Says Whitman: "So as you know I am pro-civil union and not for gay marriage.
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