Marriage Equality

Tim Hortons, the Canadian based coffee and doughnut house, is distancing itself from an upcoming Rhode Island event designed to “take a stand” against same-sex marriage. Brochures for this Sunday’s “Celebrate Marriage and Family Day“ in Warwick, R.I., listed the popular coffee-and-donut chain as one of its sponsors. The weekend celebration is being put on […]

Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Bar Association (ABA) have adopted resolutions backing full LGBT rights, including gay marriage. The ABA, a professional organization for lawyers, approved a resolution supporting the repeal of at least part of legislative language contained in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law that denies […]

The prominent lawyers leading the fight to legalize gay marriage in California on Friday formally told San Francisco officials and three other groups supportive of same-sex weddings “thanks, but no thanks” for trying to join their federal lawsuit. The two couples represented by attorneys Theodore Olson and David Boies note that the gay rights organizations […]

Marriage equality organization Maine Freedom to Marry announced July 30 that 60,000 Mainers have signed pledges defending the state’s marriage equality bill. “Volunteers, ready and willing to go door to door and speak neighbor to neighbor to protect marriage equality, are the fuel of our campaign to defeat Question 1,” Jesse Connolly, Campaign Manager of […]

The Census Bureau plans to release raw data from the 2010 Census about the number of same-sex marriages in the United States, according to new guidelines issued Monday. The announcement reverses an earlier decision made under the Bush administration. Same -sex couples “will be counted, and they ought to report the way they see themselves,” […]

Gay couples trickled into county clerk’s offices in Wisconsin on Monday for their first chance to sign up for the state’s new domestic partnership registry.

The NOH8 Campaign is a photo project and silent protest launched by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley.

The NO H8 Campaign, a silent photographic protest in response to the passage of California’s Proposition 8 in November 2008, amending the State constitution to ban same-sex marriage, has released it’s first official public service announcement. The campaign, launched by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley (pictured), began with portraits of everyday Californians […]

Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and conservative Catholic legal scholar and activist, has launched a new political organization, the American Principles Project. The group’s website says it will hold Republicans accountable to conservative positions, including opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage among its top priorities. The APP cites the definition of marriage […]