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About 23 percent of LGBT men getting Father’s Day greetings today
About a quarter of LGBT men may be getting Happy Fathers’ Day wishes today.
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Ten same-sex couples wed in group ceremony at Maine pride event
PORTLAND, Maine — Ten same-sex couples exchanged vows Saturday during a group wedding in Portland’s largest park during an annual gay pride parade and festival.
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AFER chronicles three years working to overturn Proposition 8
With just days left before the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Proposition 8, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) has compiled this look back at the last three years of working to overturn California’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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Wis. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state’s domestic partner registry
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the state’s domestic partner registry, which grants same-sex couples a number of legal rights.
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Thousands march for gay rights, marriage equality in Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia — Several thousand people held a gay pride march Saturday in Croatia, where conservatives backed by the influential Catholic Church want to make same sex marriage illegal, while neighboring Slovenia’s president led a similar march in his country’s capital.
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Pope Francis wades diplomatically into gay marriage debate
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis waded diplomatically into the gay marriage debate Friday, telling the Archbishop of Canterbury he wants to work together to promote family values “based on marriage.”
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French mayor: ‘I will go to the gallows’ rather than marry same-sex couples
ARCANGUES, France — The mayor of Arcangues, a small city in southwestern France, said he refuses to officiate unions between gay couples despite passage of a national legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Calif. awaits Supreme Court ruling; readies for possible return of same-sex marriage
SAN FRANCISCO — Planning a party for thousands of people would be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Now imagine trying to pull off such a gathering without knowing what day it should happen or if there even will be cause for celebration.
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Poll finds 58 percent of Calif. voters now support legalizing same-sex marriage
LOS ANGELES — While the U.S. Supreme Court prepares its decision on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, a new poll finds that a majority of California voters now support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.
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Gay rights activists plan 2016 vote to repeal Mich. ban on same-sex marriage
LANSING, Mich. — With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan’s gay marriage ban, advocates say it’s not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state.