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Good News or Bad Ideas? States Re-examine Marriage Amendments

Google Gay Marriage News / Huffington Post (blog)  less than a day ago

Dallas Voice Good News or Bad Ideas? States Re-examine Marriage AmendmentsHuffington Post (blog)Since the LGBT community has put such a premium on our marriage rights, politicians are now clamoring to prove how gay friendly they are because they .
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Poll: Most in NJ Favor Marriage

Advocate  2 days ago

More adult New Jersey residents favor marriage equality than oppose it, according to a new poll released Thursday morning.
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EEOC Nominee Backtracks On Marriage Equality Statement Over Polygamy Support Charges

Topix Gay News  2 days ago

Accusations of supporting polygamy have forced President Barack Obama 's nominee for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ask that her name be withdrawn from a statement that was, at least on the surface, written to support same-sex marriage.
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Gay Couples Not the Same as Incestuous Couples!, Declares New York's Top Court

Queerty  2 days ago

In rejecting the Alliance Defense Fund's argument that same-sex marriage was the same thing as incest and polygamy, New York State's Court of Appeals all but declared gays are entitled to marriage rights.
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DC Board Rejects Ballot Initiative on Gay Marriage

Google Gay News / Christian Post  4 days ago

Advocate.com DC Board Rejects Ballot Initiative on Gay MarriageChristian PostThe DC Board of Elections and Ethics ruled Tuesday not to take same-sex marriage to the ballot for a vote by the .
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DC board won't allow gay marriage ban on ballot

Google Gay Marriage News / The Associated Press  4 days ago

Advocate.com DC board won't allow gay marriage ban on ballotThe Associated PressThe DC City Council is expected to approve gay marriage next month, but opponents wanted voters to weigh in.
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DC Board of Elections declares no popular vote on gay marriage rights

365 Gay News  4 days ago

From a press release:   (Washington, DC)  Civil rights triumphed over another failed attack from advocates of discrimination when today, the D.
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How to Goose Up the Math to Make It Sound Like We've Lost Fewer Marriage Battles

Queerty  4 days ago

You know that 0-31 record on gay marriage being bandied about? As in, we've lost 31 state marriage battles across America? That sounds like a terrible batting average when it comes to gays securing their marriage rights.
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Why marriage rights are important: another angle

Topix Gay News  4 days ago

Whether it's the lesbian who had to wait with her children unable to see her partner of many many years even though she was dying in the hospital, or the gay man who lost his house when his long term partner died and they had crippling inheritance tax or the partner of a gay soldier who had to learn about his boyfriend's death when the media turned up to INTERVIEW HIM ABOUT IT (I think that's as much to do with DADT as anything - but seriously, that's madness) to the INNUMERABLE cases where wills, power of attorneys et al have been challenged (successfully!) when homosexuals have desperately taken what limited steps we could to ensure basic rights that heterosexuals take for granted.
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California Petition Drive Launched For 2010 Proposition 8 Repeal

Joe My God  4 days ago

Love Honor Cherish has launched an internet drive to gather one million petition signatures in California to place the repeal of Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot.
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Marriage license granted to gay couple in Argentina

Google Gay Marriage News / Los Angeles Times  5 days ago

CBC.ca Marriage license granted to gay couple in ArgentinaLos Angeles TimesA judge ruled last week that a ban on gay marriage violates Argentina's constitution and then granted the couple, Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre, .
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Brazil's Gays Are Leaps + Bounds Closer to Full Marriage Rights Than Americans

Queerty  5 days ago

The United States and Argentina may be tied in some respects, but the South American nation might leapfrog us where it counts: marriage equality.
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CA: Petition Drive Launched To Repeal Prop 8

Pams House blend  5 days ago

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*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** SIGNFOREQUALITY.COM LAUNCHES PETITION DRIVE TO REPEAL PROP 8

Activists Unveil Unique Social-Networking Tool to Support Signature Gathering Effort

(SACRAMENTO - November 16, 2009)

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Despite Maine defeat, a good year for gay elections

Q Notes  Nov 14 09

Maine marriage defeated Voters in Maine rejected new marriage rights for same-sex couples 53 percent to 47 percent.
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No On 1 Documentary

Pams House blend  Nov 13 09

Watch this. Now.

Blockquotes are statements released by the producers of this documentary, done in 2 parts because of YouTube size restrictions.
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There's Already a Movie About the Fight to Save Marriage in Maine

Queerty  Nov 13 09

It took producers of 8: The Mormon Proposition an entire year to document the Mormon Church's involvement in erasing California's gay marriage rights.
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Mormon Church Backs Anti-Discrimination Law

Google Gay Marriage News / Air America  Nov 12 09

Washington Times Mormon Church Backs Anti-Discrimination LawAir AmericaNonetheless, Jane Wishon of the Restore Equality 2010 campaign to restore gay marriage rights in California commended the LDS for its leadership at .
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LGBT's biggest label endorses Senate's only 'brand

Good As You  Nov 12 09

The Human Rights Campaign has officially endorsed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in her 2010 re-election bid: Sen.
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Equal Love - Nov 28th Australian Marriage Rallies

Queers United  Nov 11 09

The Australian Senate is due to release a landmark report on same-sex marriage and activists across the nation will be demonstrating on November 28th for marriage rights through the Equal Love campaign two days after the expected report comes out.
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Are New Yorkers Stonewalling Their Own Progress?

IGF Culture Watch  Nov 11 09

by David Link

Twenty years ago, New York’s highest court ruled, in Braschi v. Stahl Associates that a same-sex couple could be treated as a “family” under New York’s rent control law.
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