Poll: Biggest-ever majority of New Yorkers supports marriage
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 at 11:44 am
A new Quinnipiac poll shows that a clear majority of New Yorkers support the freedom to marry.
House marriage equality bill in Maryland gets 58 sponsors
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 at 11:00 am
Maryland House Majority Leader Kumar Barve today submitted the House plan to legalize marriage for same-sex couples -- a proposal backed by 58 delegates who have signed on as co-sponsors.
Maryland lawmakers expected to act on marriage equality
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Maryland appears poised this year to expand the rights of same-sex couples, with the state legislature considering proposals on full marriage benefits as well as a compromise plan that would establish civil unions.
"This is about loving couples," Sean Eldridge, political director for the New York-based advocacy group Freedom to Marry, told lawmakers and supporters Tuesday at an event in Annapolis to promote gay marriage legislation.
Deconstructing an anti-marriage argument
Posted on Jan 25, 2011 at 01:45 pm
Freedom to Marry Online Content Manager, Josh Bell, debunks one of the arguments marriage opponents use to justify continuing to exclude same-sex couples from marriage.
Freedom to Marry’s Sean Eldridge in Maryland: ‘The time to pass this legislation is now’
Posted on Jan 25, 2011 at 11:30 am
Remarks by Sean Eldridge, Political Director of Freedom to Marry, at today's press conference Maryland.
Majority in Maryland supports marriage equality
Posted on Jan 25, 2011 at 08:30 am
51 percent of voters say they would favor a law in Maryland allowing same-sex couples to marry, while 44 percent opposed such a law and 5 percent gave no response.
Freedom to Marry Calls on Wyoming Legislature to Keep Discrimination Out of the “Equality State”
Posted on Jan 24, 2011 at 06:30 pm
A statement from Evan Wolfson, Founder and Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, urging the Wyoming State Legislature to reject a constitutional amendment that passed the House today that would specify that out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples would not be honored in Wyoming.
Opponents of anti-marriage-equality bill rally in Wyoming
Posted on Jan 24, 2011 at 03:45 pm
The "equality rally" opposed House Bill 74, which passed its first two votes in the state House of Representatives Thursday and Friday. The bill prohibits the recognition of marriages of same-sex couples from outside of Wyoming.
Op-Ed: A gay agenda for everyone
Posted on Jan 24, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Dan Savage discusses why he believes President Obama should address gay rights - specifically marriage equality - in his State of the Union speech this week.
Maryland majority leaders sponsoring marriage equality bills
Posted on Jan 24, 2011 at 10:45 am
The majority leaders in both the Maryland House and Senate are acting as lead sponsors of bills this session legally honoring the marriages of same-sex couples, a symbolic move meant to underscore the momentum behind the legislation.