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A new poll finds that for the first time, more Californians support marriage equality than oppose it.
Read MoreMonday, Let California Ring—the coalition of 50-plus organizations hosted by the Equality California Institute to do education work on the freedom to marry —embarked on something not often seen in our work together. We’ve publicly released our findings on messaging and we’re asking the community of LGBT people and allies for their best ideas to help us take our messaging work to the next level.
Read MoreFreedom to Marry Voice for Equality, Senator Daylin Leach, is one of the LGBT community's strongest allies. He is the sponsor of a Freedom to Marry bill in Pennsylvania, and last week successfully led the effort to table an amendment to Pennsylvania's constitution, sponsored by State Senator John Eichelberger, to effectively ban marriage equality.
Read MoreThe District's new marriage equality law could become entangled, at least briefly, in the U.S. Senate debate over changes to the health care reform act that President Obama signed into law Tuesday. Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) has introduced an amendment that would suspend the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples until the issue can be put before voters.
Read MoreOn ABC's Modern Family, Eric Stonestreet, 38, is the flashy and affectionate Lion King-loving Cameron Tucker, who moonlights as Fizbo the clown. His longtime partner, the tightly wound and Fizbo-loathing lawyer Mitchell Pritchett, is played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 34. Together, they make up one of the most high-profile gay couples on prime time.
Read MoreA social service agency's support for the freedom to marry has cost it local and national funding from the Catholic Church's anti-poverty program. Preble Street's Homeless Voices for Justice program has lost $17,400 this year and will lose $33,000 that it expected for its next fiscal year.
Read MoreEquality California has filed a motion for a stay in response to Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling ordering Equality California and the American Civil Liberties Union to turn over internal strategy emails and campaign materials from the No on Proposition 8 campaign.
Read MoreWhen the state Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that same-sex couples must have the same rights as heterosexual couples under New Jersey law, the justices ducked the obvious question: Can gay couples get married? They left that question to the state Legislature, which found another way to avoid it, passing a law that established civil unions. They’re just like marriages, the law essentially says, but with a different name.
Read MoreAmicurious.com, a matchmaking website for gay men seeking lasting relationships, was founded on the ideal that gay men should have equal opportunity to find love and get married. Following the successful launch of their site, Amicurious turned its attention to a national search for a non-profit partner that would receive 10% of all membership dues. Today, they announced that Freedom to Marry, "the leading campaign to win marriage nationwide," was chosen as their non-profit partner.
Read MoreFreedom to Marry salutes Jeff Probst. Mr. Probst is an Emmy winning American game show host, executive producer and a reporter. He is best known for his role as the host of the U.S. version of the reality show Survivor. On September 21, 2008 Probst won the first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. On September 20, 2009 he again won the same award. On March 15, 2010 Mr. Probst was announced as a planned participant in an anti-Prop 8 Scavenger Hunt to support The Williams Institute and Marriage Equality
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