Gay Weddings

BALTIMORE -- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will officiate a mass wedding for same-sex couples during the Baltimore Pride Festival next month. [ Read more → ]

RICHLAND, Wash. — A florist targeted by two lawsuits for refusing to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding has filed her own lawsuit against Washington state, claiming the state is violating her religious beliefs. [ Read more → ]

NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union is lobbying for the most prominent gay parents on U.S. television to get married. The campaign aimed at ABC's "Modern Family" comes as momentum for gay marriage builds in parts of the country. [ Read more → ]

HOOD RIVER, Ore. – A lesbian couple in Oregon who went to find a baker for their wedding cake said they were turned away from a local bakery because they are gay. [ Read more → ]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin issued a warning to Catholics this week that are not free to “endorse or ignore immoral or destructive behavior,” and advised against attending any gay weddings now that same-sex marriage has been legalized in Rhode Island. [ Read more → ]

On November 16, 2012, Australians Clinton Bryan and Callum Mathieson were married in Sydney. While they know that technically they did not get "married," because same-sex marriage is not yet legal in Australia, their special day was treated as such by a supportive network of family and friends. [ Read more → ]

FREEPORT, Maine -- The lesbian couple from Maine that won a magazine's dream wedding contest is withdrawing because one woman's father is in poor health. [ Read more → ]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday it is representing a Kennewick, Wash., gay couple in seeking remedies from a florist that discriminated against them by refusing to provide flowers for their wedding. [ Read more → ]

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Washington state Attorney General has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against a florist who refused to provide flowers for the wedding of a same-sex couple. [ Read more → ]

LOS ANGELES — Justin Bartha never set out to make a political statement when signing on to play a gay, expectant father on NBC's "The New Normal." "It's interesting that television really has swayed the conversation," Bartha said of the same-sex marriage debate. "You're just trying to make entertainment." [ Read more → ]

FREEPORT, Maine — A Maine magazine has awarded a wedding valued up to $100,000 to a same-sex couple for its annual wedding contest. [ Read more → ]

RICHLAND Wash. -- A flower shop in Washington state has refused to provide flowers for the wedding of a gay couple, who had been using her services for years, because or her "relationship with Jesus Christ." [ Read more → ]

GRESHAM, Ore. -- The Oregon Department of Justice is investigating a complaint that a bakery in Gresham, Ore., refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding, a possible violation of an Oregon law that prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation. [ Read more → ]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The mayor of Bloomington presided over a symbolic "wedding" ceremony for 13 same-sex couples to protest a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Indiana. [ Read more → ]

ST. MARY'S COUNTY, Md. -- The Chief Clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, Md., said Thursday that some deputy clerks were opposed to the state's new law legalizing same-sex marriage, based on their religious convictions and will no longer officiate at wedding ceremonies. [ Read more → ]

ABC's Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion married his partner, artist Rubem Robierb on Friday, in an intimate ceremony in Champion's New York City apartment. [ Read more → ]

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- In a historic first for the venerable chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Army veteran Brenda "Sue" Fulton married her longtime partner, Penelope Gnesin, in front of family and friends in a ceremony officiated by Army Chaplain, Colonel J. Wesley Smith of Dover Air Force Base. [ Read more → ]

ANNAPOLIS, MD -- Marriage officials in Maryland can begin processing marriage applications for same-sex couples, allowing them to wed on New Year's Day, according to an opinion by the state's Attorney General. [ Read more → ]

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who maintained a public position of opposing same-sex marriage, revealed in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he presided over two ceremonies of gay couples while in office. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON -- Two U.S. Senators on Tuesday introduced legislation that would prohibit same-sex unions from being held on military bases. [ Read more → ]