A rude shock at Christmas
Posted on Dec 23, 2010 at 05:00 pm
A NJ civil union provided no protection for Peruvian man abruptly deported.
Wolfson to visit Guam
Posted on Dec 23, 2010 at 02:30 pm
Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson will be speaking on Tuesday before the Guam Legislature about marriage equality and the issues surrounding it.
European marriage equality legal challenge launched today
Posted on Dec 22, 2010 at 02:00 pm
Eight couples in the U.K. fighting to overturn the twin ban on civil marriages for same-sex couples and civil partnerships for heterosexual couples today launched their joint legal challenge despite a minor setback.
Obama: “Prepared to implement” DADT, “attitudes evolving” on marriage equality
Posted on Dec 22, 2010 at 11:00 am
In and exclusive oval office interview with "The Advocate," President Obama says the Pentagon is "prepared to implement" repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and it will take months not years.
He also says he's “wrestling” with the issue of marriage equality.
Military Veteran: Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell “A burden off my shoulders”
Posted on Dec 21, 2010 at 03:45 pm
Minutes after the Senate voted to allow gays to serve openly in the military, Mary Lou Paquette said she felt a weight had been lifted.
Sean Eldridge, the political director of the national Freedom to Marry campaign, likened the ban on serving openly to laws that prohibit marriage for same-sex couples and called military discrimination "one of the cruelest inequalities inflicted on gay Americans by their own government" in a statement released in support of the bill's passage.
Judge hears federal worker’s spousal benefits case
Posted on Dec 21, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Lawyer Karen Golinski has spent the past 19 years working for a federal appeals court based in San Francisco.
So finding herself seated in court Friday as the plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking health insurance coverage for her same-sex partner was disturbing and strange, she said.
N.Y. Marriage: Hey, you never know
Posted on Dec 21, 2010 at 10:30 am
There is work to be done in 2011, but marriage equality advocates are betting on improved odds with a Republican senate majority in New York State.
Campaigners take fight against ban on the freedom to marry to European court
Posted on Dec 17, 2010 at 02:00 pm
Eight British couples will take their case to overturn the bans on marriages of same-sex couples and heterosexual civil partnerships to the European Court of Human Rights next week.
Marriage equality supporters plan new vote in NY Senate
Posted on Dec 17, 2010 at 10:00 am
New York's most influential advocates for gay rights say the chances are better than ever to legalize the freedom to marry, even in a Republican-controlled Senate.
Colorado lawmaker plans to introduce civil-unions bill
Posted on Dec 16, 2010 at 02:00 pm
A state lawmaker plans to introduce a bill next year that would make Colorado the fourth state to recognize civil unions.
Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, said he believes the majority of Coloradans support civil unions and oppose gays being treated unfairly.