Pennsylvania

For several years now, the Pennsylvania legislature has stopped a bill from advancing that would add an anti-marriage amendment to the state constitution. State advocacy groups continue to work to defeat such anti-gay bills and move towards ending the exclusion of same-sex couples and their families from marriage.

Status: Anti-Marriage Law

Groups Actively Working on Marriage

Equality Advocates Pennsylvania: (formerly The Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights) working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in Pennsylvania through direct legal services, education and policy reform

Freedom to Marry Pennsylvania: a steering committee and a list of supporting organizations for aseries of events running Feb 6th to Feb 16th, 2010 to celebrate Freedomto Marry Week

 

Take Action by thanking the legislators who stopped the anti-gay amendment. 

Blog Posts Related to Pennsylvania

Prop 8 court rulings move pendulum toward marriage equality

NOM's Summer for Marriage tour makes its second to last stop in Harrisburg, PA later this week. In this morning's Harrisburg Patriot news, Ted Martin, the Executive Director of Equality Pennsylvania, and Andy Hoover, the Legislative Director for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, discuss the future of the freedom to marry in light of the federal court's recent ground breaking decision on Proposition 8

Upcoming Summer for Marriage Events: GA, FL, NC, WV, PA, and DC

Freedom to Marry's Summer for Marriage Tour wraps up next week with events in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. The tour, which was originally organized in response to the National Organization for Marriage's anti-gay “One Man, One Woman” bus tour, has highlighted widespread support for the freedom to marry with supporters of equality outnumbering NOM’s supporters on all 16 stops thus far

For same-sex couples, a patchwork of marriage laws

Many lesbian and gay couples struggle with the classification and recognition of their relationships due to varying marriage equality laws and freedom to marry bans throughout the United States.

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Resources Related to Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Census Snapshot

Demographic and economic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children in Pennsylvania.

Geographic Trends Among Same-Sex Couples in the U.S. Census and the American Community Survey

Groundbreaking research showing a huge increase in same-sex couples identifying themselves as "unmarried partners".

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