Land of Lincoln Lawmakers Championing Marriage Equality
By Jason Carson Wilson Openly gay Illinois lawmakers are working to bring gay marriage to the Land of Lincoln, the Advocate reports. State Reps. Kelly...
Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional
By Brittny Drye Proposition 8 has been ruled unconstitutional. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of appeals found that Prop 8, a 2008 ballot measure that...
Starbucks Supports Marriage Equality, Receives Protests
By Brittny Drye When Starbucks publicly announced its support for gay marriage, in light of the recent legislation sweeping its home state of Washington, not...
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire Makes Marriage Equality Video
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire joins forces with the Human Rights Campaign and contributes her own 36-second spot for the Americans for Marriage Equality video series. The...
Prop 8 Trial Video Release Ruling Expected Thursday
By Jason Carson Wilson A federal court in California will rule on Thursday whether Proposition 8 trial footage should be released. But, the Ninth U.S....
Washington State Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill
By Jason Carson Wilson Marriage equality is making its way to Washington state. The state senate passed a gay marriage bill by a vote of...
Prediction: President Obama Will Soon Endorse Gay Marriage
By Kirsten Palladino President Barack Obama will soon endorse gay marriage, predicts Richard Socarides in an opinion piece in The New Yorker. “After a year...
Judge Vaughn Walker’s Sexual Orientation Once Again Questioned for his Decision to Overturn Prop 8
By Kirsten Palladino The sponsors of California’s gay marriage ban continue to attempt to have Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker (left) disqualified because of his...
Gay Marriage Means Money in Iowa and Marriage Equality Heads Back to Maine’s Ballot
By Jason Carson Wilson Marriage equality makes money—in Iowa. California-based Williams Institute discovered same-sex weddings and tourism pumped nearly $13 million into the state’s economy...
Prop 8 Challenge Merits to be Debated and Republicans Have a Presidential Candidate for Gay Marriage
By Jason Carson Wilson Ted Olson (left) and David Boies Marriage equality comes before three California judges. Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down Proposition...
We Keep Getting Legally Hitched — Should We Keep Sending Announcements?
Q My partner and I were one of the 4,000 couples wed in San Francisco in February 2004. Then we were annulled by the Supreme...
Off Broadway Premieres Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
By Kirsten Palladino Harriet Harris and Mark Consuelos Marriage equality is unequivocally the civil rights issue of our time. And now it will be explored...
DOMA Repeal Debate Begins Today; N.H. Politicians Scrap Constitutional Amendment for Repeal
By Jason Carson Wilson New Hampshire Republicans don’t want voters to decide. State Rep. David Bates, R-Windham, scrapped his proposed constitutional amendment to ban marriage...
The Air We Breathe: SFMOMA Exhibition Delves Into Issues of Same-Sex Marriage
Thirty artists and eight poets on marriage equalityBy Kirsten Palladino Martha Colburn, Untitled, 2011; water-based oils and collage on board; 10 5/8 x 7 3/4...
Gay Military Personnel To Join NOH8 Campaign For Marriage Equality
(HUFFINGTON POST) As gay and lesbian service members celebrate the end of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy at their first ever professional conference...
Bi-National Couple Wages War on DOMA
As the fight for legalizing same-sex marriages slowly trickles throughout states’ governments, another issue emerges: immigration for bi-national same-sex couples. By Brittny Drye San Francisco...