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Argentine gay couple gets married—a first in Latin America
Alex Freyer and Jose Maria proudly show off their marriage license after celebrating Latin America's first-ever wedding of a gay couple Latin America’s first legally sanctioned same-sex wedding was officiated today in Argentina when Alex Fre...
Item: Key NJ senate committee passes marriage-equality bill
::: The marriage equality bill in New Jersey passed over a key hurdle Monday night when it was narrowly approved on a 7-6 vote by the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee. Six Democrats and one Republican voted for the bill, while ...
DC Catholic church says it won’t help poor if it can’t discriminate against LGBT people
St. Mathhew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC Flickr photo by MVI The Roman Catholic church threatened Wednesday to shut down the social service programs it runs for the District of Columbia if the DC city council adopts a marriage equality law in its ...
Video: NBC summarizes Maine’s Question 1
On the Saturday broadcast of NBC Nightly News, reporter Ron Allen offers a summary of the election battle in Maine to determine the survival of the state’s marriage equality law, which was passed last spring by the legislature and signed by Gov. J...
NYT story summarizes Washington’s Ref 71
In story published Saturday, New York Times offers a brief summary of Washington’s Referendum 71 which will be decided in Tuesday’s election, even though final results are not likely to be known until days later because the state’s largest coun...
Church of Sweden will conduct weddings for gay/lesbian couples
Sweden's Lutheran church, which counts 74 percent of country’s population as members, voted on Thursday to conduct church weddings for gay and lesbian couples. The proposal was approved by 176 of the 249 voting members at the Church of Sweden sy...
Marriage equality supporters rally in Rhode Island
About 150 supporters of marriage equality gathered on the steps of the state capitol in Providence, Rhode Island to demanding legislation gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. State Sen. Rhoda Perry told the spirited crowd that Rhode Island mu...
Item: High court justice again blocks release of Ref-71 petitions
US Supreme Court Justice Arthur Kennedy today temporarily reimposed a ban on release of the names of those signed the petitions putting Referendum 71 on the Washington ballot, Associated Press reports. The referendum asks voters to approve or reject ...
Must read: Maine’s Question 1 and Washington’s Ref. 71 compared
Although the Nov. 3 ballot issue in Maine called Question 1 has garnered more national attention and far more money from progressive activists, voters across the continent on the west coast will also be asked to weigh in on a law that grants ...
Rhode Island governor addresses right-wing anti-gay group
About a dozen activists from several Rhode Island LGBT advocacy groups demonstrated for about two hours Thursday outside a hotel in Newton, Mass. They were there to protest the appearance of RI Gov. Donald L. Carcieri at a meeting of a far-right ant...
Poll shows marriage vote in Maine too close to call despite fundraising advantage
Source: Bangor Daily News, Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Portland Press Herald, Maine Public Broadcasting The campaign to maintain marriage equality in Maine said Tuesday in an official filing that they've collected $2.7 million and spent $2.2...
Schwarzenegger signs bills that honor Harvey Milk and recognize out-of-state marriages
Harvey Milk Day will from now on be officially recognized in California on May 22 – Milk's birthday – as a “day of significance” across the state, San Francisco Chronicle reports. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also signed...
Headlinks: Presbyterians, leaderless GOP, teacher jailed, channeling God
[Presbyterian News Svc] Presbyterians debate but cannot agree on same-sex marriage [SJ MercuryNews] Census count: 23,000 of California's gay couples consider themselves married [Palm Center pr] Congressman Seeks Inquiry Into Navy's Anti-Gay A...
Census bureau counts 565,000 same-sex couples in 2008 survey
The US Census Bureau provided its massive annual data dump Monday with numbers from its 2008 random survey. It released data on everything from the count of immigrants in the US (fewer than previous surveys because of the recession), to the poverty ...
Video: Maine gay couple celebrates 40th anniversary
Ron Schwizer and Doug Kimmel were married 40 years ago by a friend who performed a wedding ceremony for them on August 19, 1969 in a University of Colorado campus chapel. They’ve been together ever since, living most of the time in their home sta...
Item: Wisc. AG won’t defend state’s DP law
::: Wisconsin’s Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, announced today that he won't defend the state against a lawsuit challenging the state's new domestic partner registry. He said in a statement that the state constitution ...
Item: Vermont couples get marriage applications
There hasn’t been a run to the Vermont’s courthouses, but a few gay or lesbian couples have shown up to get marriage license applications with two weeks to go before the state’s new law recognizing marriage equality takes effect on Sept. 1. “...
Albania surprises with draft law recognizing marriage equality
Albania would become the first country in the Balkans and the first former communist country to recognize full marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples if a draft law proposed last month by Prime Minister Sali Berisha is adopted. 84 votes wou...
Anti-gay ballot measures appear headed to voters in Maine, Washington, Kalamazoo
Anti-gay ballot measures are one of the most popular elements of the homophobe agenda. At least three of them appear to be headed to the ballot for the off-year election ballots this year in November – all of them in northern border states. ...
Dozens register as domestic partners at Wisconsin courthouses
Source: Capitol Times, Wisconsin Radio Network, WKOW TV, WisPolitics.com, Wausau Daily Herald, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Janice Czyscon gets high-fives from others waiting in line at the clerk’s office in Madison after she and her partner Cryst...
Dutch/US couples marry; Milk honored; Lesbian bishop, don’chya know?
::: Five American-Dutch gay couples were married Saturday on the canals during Amsterdam’s annual gay pride festival. The ceremonies, performed by Amsterdam’s mayor, were an implicit criticism of the lack of same-sex marriage in most...
Some activists favor quick return of marriage equality to California ballot
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Vallejo Times Herald, Bay Area Reporter A majority of marriage-equality activists gathered at a strategy meeting in San Bernardino, California voted Saturday in a non-binding tally to ta...
Headlines: Wisc. rights; Transgender TV star; Prairie marriage rights
::: Even though a domestic partnership law passed by this year’s session of the Wisconsin legislature offers limited rights to gay and lesbian couples, it’s still too much for a right-wing group in the state that insists any official...
Anti-gay group in Washington set to bring in referendum petitions Saturday
The right-wing splinter group in Washington opposed to rights for registered domestic partners claims that it will probably have enough signatures by Saturday afternoon to put a temporary halt to the most recent expansion of the state’s domestic p...
Episcopal church will debate marriage rites for gay/lesbian couples
Source: Vermont Times Argus, Religious Intelligence, USA Today A resolution will be introduced at a major meeting of Episcopal bishops this week urging the church to allow bishops to perform a key marriage ritual for gay and lesbian couples. The...
Marriages of gay and lesbian couples in DC now recognized
Gay and lesbian couples who live in Washington, DC and have marriage licenses from other states and countries are now legally married in the district. A measure to recognize those marriages in DC, called “Jury and Marriage Amendment Act of 2009...
Wisconsin governor signs bill setting up some domestic partner rights
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed the state’s comprehensive budget bill on Monday – a bill that includes limited domestic partnership protections for citizens as well as insurance and pension rights for domestic partners of state employees. W...
Same-sex couples will get legal recognition in Ireland under new bill
Ireland published new civil partnership laws Friday giving legal recognition to same-sex couples but falling short of marriage because of limitations imposed by the country's constitution. Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said the laws provided “ver...
Briefs: Same-sex marriages will be counted in 2010 census
The White House confirmed late last week that married same-sex couples will be counted as married in the 2010 census. Wall Street Journal reports that the administration has directed the Census Bureau to determine changes needed in tabulation softwar...
Both governor and attorney general decline to defend Prop. 8 in federal court
In legal papers filed Tuesday, lawyers for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to take sides in a suit that challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, leaving it up to those who campaigned for the measure to defend it in federal c...
