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Quote of the Day: What Marriage Equality Means for Future Generations
Words from a 2006 article written by blogger Andrew Sullivan reach out from the past to tell us what the Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality really means for future gays and lesbians: A gay child born today … Continue reading
Which U.S. State Will Legalize Same-Sex Marriage Last?
With marriage equality cases to be heard before the Supreme Court in April of 2015 and many states in one status of marriage limbo or another, The Washington Post opines on which state may be the last in our nation … Continue reading
An Accurate Summation of 6th Circuits Ruling Against Equality
The Detroit Free Press accurately paraphrases the 6th Circuit Court’s ruling upholding gay marriage bans in the papers opinion on how wrong the ruling is: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling on Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban reads as both … Continue reading
Ark. City Celebrates Same-Sex Married Couple with a Wedding Reception
From an Out In Eureka press release: Eureka Springs, AR plans ‘Married To Equality’ wedding reception for LGBT newlyweds. The first city in Arkansas to officially endorse marriage equality and the first in which same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses in … Continue reading
Inside the Courtroom at Marriage Equality Hearing in Florida
Most of the time we see the Marriage Equality hearings only through live streams, transcripts or rehashes in news articles, but The Miami Herald has put together the below video which gives us a little bit of an inside peak … Continue reading
Welcome To Eureka Springs, Arkansas’s Marriage Equality Frontier Town
Weeks before it landed itself on the map as being the first town in Arkansas to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Eureka Springs was profiled in the Advocate.com as being the “gayest small town in America you’ve never heard … Continue reading
Meet Some of the Folks Who Got Married in Arkansas
The Arkansas Times has interviews with 6 of the folks who rushed to get marriage licenses in the brief time that Arkansas has marriage equality before the state’s supreme court put a halt to further nuptials: Zeek Taylor and Dick … Continue reading
Quote of the Day: Positive Learing from Gay Relationships
“My first really good model of a long-term relationship in which people were sharing their lives but still keeping their individuality was a gay couple,” said Ashley Holmes, Indianapolis. “They came along in my life at the same time I … Continue reading
Why It Gets Better: Va. Attorney General Evolves on Marriage Equality
Joe Jervis, blogger for Joe. My. God., notes that recently elected Attorney General, Mark Herring of Virginia, will file a supportive brief in the case to overturn that state’s gay marriage ban. What is notable about this post that Herring … Continue reading
Maggie Gallagher Hopes to Avoid Anita Bryant’s Fate
Is Maggie Gallagher hoping to avoid being an early 21st century version of Anita Bryant? In an interview piece with The Huffington Post, Gallagher states that the current climate of increasing public support for gay marriage is allowing her the … Continue reading →