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Nicole C. Brambila writes about lesbian and gay couples who face financial trouble in part because their relationships are not legally recognized.
Read MoreJohanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland prime minister, married her long-time partner on Sunday as a new law legalizing marriage equality came into force.
Read MoreThe Maine Ethics Commission on Thursday rejected the National Organization for Marriage’s latest attempt to block an investigation of the group, adding yet another legal twist to a case that has been going since last October.
Read MoreIf you look at timelines detailing the milestones over the decades in the gay-rights movement, you’ll see more and more markers after 2008, with the freedom to marry movement gaining more states and President Obama allowing same-sex partners of federal employees to receive certain benefits. Yet sometimes being so close to success, when it’s not fully achieved, is confusing, and upsetting.
Read MoreFor many Californians, as well as gay people around the world, the wounds are still fresh and the minds still boggled that the anti-marriage eqaulity Prop. 8 could have passed in California. Was it complacency, lack of minority outreach, too many people taking their eye off the ball? While all of these share some responsibility, perhaps the biggest factor was the flood of money and manpower that deluged California as a result of a call to action by Utah's Mormon Church.
Read MoreIn an interview with George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America" Cyndi Lauper (a Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality) expressed her support for marriage equality and stressed the importance of people talking and sharing their stories and experiences.
Read MoreJosh Cohen is an American Democratic politician who was elected on Nov. 3, 2009, as mayor of Annapolis. Cohen, a Democrat, gained 46.5 percent of the vote to defeat Republican nominee David Cordle (40.5 percent) and independent candidate Chris Fox (13 percent). Cohen, who served previously on the Anne Arundel County Council (District 6) and the Annapolis City Council (Ward 8), succeeded Ellen O. Moyer as Annapolis' chief executive on Dec. 7, 2009. In a move toward marriage equality in Maryland, Mayor Cohen extended benefits in June of 2010 to the same-sex partners of city workers, including access to medical plans.
Read MoreAfter being together 64 years, Bob and Henry get married in Washington, D.C. Video by Washington Blade.
Read MoreA groundbreaking study by Patrick Egan was released last week related to polling on ballot measures on marriage equality and same-sex relationships. The study shows that voters don’t move during campaigns. They vote the way they said they would right from the start.
Read More“Partnered lesbians and gay men are more than twice as likely to be uninsured as married heterosexuals,” according to a new study of Californians by Lambda Legal and the Department of Health Services at UCLA.
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