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Push to reclaim marriage equality in Maine off to positive start
Organizers of the effort to reclaim marriage equality in Maine are predicting that the efforts underway to restore same-sex marriage are off to a positive start.
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Morgan Freeman and friends to headline play based on Proposition 8 trial
This week’s all about Minnesota, Maine, North Carolina, Colorado, and Broadway. All four of those states have months of bitter fighting over marriage to look forward to, with millions of dollars likely to be spent on both sides. Fortunately, we’ve got a secret weapon: Morgan Freeman.
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NOM slapped down by the courts while its bus tour is flopping hard
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has again ruled against the National Organization for Marriage’s attempts to challenge the “constitutionality of a Rhode Island election law requiring the reporting of so-called ‘independent expenditures.’”
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Impact of New York’s marriage equality law is already spreading
This week: Rhode Island is getting civil unions, Maine will collect signatures to overturn that state’s marriage ban, and seven couples have sued New Jersey to do the same there. The AMA endorsed marriage equality, the NOM won’t be allowed to use secret donors in Minnesota, the DOJ sided against DOMA in one case and with DOMA in another.
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Maine marriage equality advocates launch campaign to put issue on 2012 ballot
More than 150 LGBT advocates gathered on the steps of the Lewiston, Maine, City Hall on Thursday to announce a campaign to put the issue of marriage equality back on the ballot in 2012, just three years after it was rejected by Maine voters.
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Maine openly gay teens crowned prom king and queen
A beautiful story out of southern Maine (one of only two New England States not recognizing marriage equality) — 17 year-old Christian Nelsen was just crowned Sanford High School’s Prom Queen.
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Bangor man arrested after calling San Francisco visitors gay slur
A Bangor, Maine resident was arrested for disorderly conduct on Tuesday evening after he repeatedly called a man from San Francisco a gay slur, resulting in a fight at a Longhorn Steakhouse.
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Marriage equality opponent expresses regret for false claims in Maine repeal
In “Question 1,” a new documentary filmed during Maine’s successful “Yes on 1” campaign to repeal the state’s marriage equality law, reveals that “Yes On “1 chairman Marc Mutty acknowledges his campaign’s claim that “same-sex marriage will be taught in schools” was untrue.
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Judge upholds Maine campaign finance challenge brought by anti-gay NOM
A federal judge has ruled that Maine’s campaign finance disclosure law is constitutional, rejecting a challenge by the National Organization for Marriage over its refusal to disclose identities of donors who contributed to its anti-gay marriage campaign.
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Maine HS student holds marriage equality rally
BANGOR, Maine — Who can marry and who can’t comes down to who has a Y chromosome and who doesn’t, a Bangor High School student told a crowd of more than 60 people gathered Sunday in Pickering Square in support of same-sex marriage in Maine, reports the Bangor Daily News. “What is the difference between […]