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

Blog Posts Related to Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Senate Panel tables bill to ban the Freedom to Marry

The latest effort to amend Pennsylvania's constitution to effectively ban marriage equality is stalling.

The state Senate Judiciary Committee voted narrowly Tuesday to table the measure defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Pennsylvania Senate Committee to vote on Marriage Ban

A Pennsylvania State Senate committee is expected to vote tomorrow (March 16, 2010) on a proposed constitutional amendment banning the freedom to marry.

Video: PA State Senator Daylin Leach speaks on the Freedom to Marry

Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach, a Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality, speaks in the Capitol building in Harrisburg on his bill, SB 935 that, if passed would honor the marriages of gay couples in Pennsylvania.

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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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