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Following yesterday's Opinion issued by Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler on state recognition of same-sex marriages performed out of state, some are wondering what an A.G.'s opinion is in general and what this may or may not mean for the freedom to marry in Maryland.
Read MoreEstablished gay-rights organizations and newer grassroots activists don't always completely agree on strategy and tactics in the movement toward the freedom to marry. There is consensus, however, that combining the strengths of both groups could be a significant step forward on the way to marriage equality.
Read MoreDemocrats in the West Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday swiftly shot down Republican attempts to advance a constitutional ban on the freedom to marry. GOP delegates unsuccessfully tried to force a floor vote on a bipartisan resolution (HJR5) called the "Marriage Protection Amendment." The proposal calls for a statewide referendum on whether to amend West Virginia's constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Read MoreJoin EQMD for a Rally Today at 6:30pm to Celebrate the Attorney General's Opinion on Out-of-State Marriages.
Read MoreStatement by Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, following the release of Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler’s opinion today calling for recognition of out-of-state marriages.
Read MoreA judge on Tuesday authorized two men to marry in Buenos Aires in what would be the country's second marriage of a gay couple. In December, two Argentine men, Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Bello, became the first gay couple to legally marry in heavily Roman Catholic Latin America, after the governor of southernmost Tierra del Fuego province allowed them to wed in the provincial capital, Ushuaia.
Read MoreAlex Lopatin discusses the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and "the system that has enabled [it] to exercise its current degree of influence over ordinary Americans.""This system, or some variant of it, is common to many Christian conservative policy campaigns in this country," Lopatin says. "It involves, briefly, the use of seemingly secular social and 'scientific' arguments to advance a position whose origin is purely religious."
Read MoreOn Monday, three pro-gay bills introduced last March were aired out in a Minnesota House committee. One measure, sponsored by Representative Joe Mullery, DFL- Minneapolis, would recognize gay and lesbian couples with civil unions. And Golden Valley Representative Ryan Winkler's bill seeks to recognize legal marriages performed outside the state. A third bill proposes legalizing the freedom to marry. “Legislators have seen that there is strong support for extending legal recognition to same-sex couples and their families by ending discrimination in marriage,” Amy Johnson, executive director of gay rights group OutFront Minnesota, said in a statement. “Minnesotans know that marriage equality next door in Canada and now Iowa is not a threat to them or their families. A majority of Minnesotans (61%) support giving gay couples “the same legal and economic rights and responsibilities as married couples,” according to a 2009 state fair opinion poll.
Read MoreKaren Ocamb reports on Jeffrey King, executive director of In The Meantime Men, who has launched a new Los Angeles-based LGBT Black Network. Its first meeting on February 10th raised a number of issues that need to be discussed, confronted and resolved. Mr. King shares what was discussed at the Network meeting to help spur discussion among Black LGBTs who did not attend the first meeting and within the larger LGBT community.
Read MoreEdward Schumacher-Matos writes in response to a Miami Herald reader who feels there has been one-sided pro-gay rights coverage in the newspaper. "In recent years, most of us have come to accept the scientific view that sexual orientation is not a life choice, but a matter of genetics that defines a person as much as race. It is opposition to gay rights that is the life choice. If morality is important in guiding the newspaper -- and I think it is -- then this means that the newspaper is morally obliged to be more concerned about its impact on gays in our community than on those whose life choice is to restrict them."
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