City of Borders Explores Lives of Gays & Lesbians in Israel
As seen in the rhetoric employed against the LGBT community in recent political struggles here in the States, including the recent striking down of Gay Marriage in Maine and the right's attacks on safe schools czar Kevin Jennings, religious traditions often play a very active role in any conversation on Gay Rights. But this is far from a U.S.-only issue, obviously. Perhaps nowhere are the rifts between the conservative and progressive, Orthodox and atheist, Gay and straight more evident than in...

What does Maine's rejection of gay marriage mean for California?
Question 1, a repeal of the New England state's law allowing same-sex Marriage, passed with 52.7 percent of voters in favor; nearly parallel to the 52 percent of California's voters last year that passed Proposition 8, the Constitutional amendment banning Gay Marriage in the Golden State. Maine's vote resonates in California, where Gay Rights activists are divided whether to push for a repeal of the same-sex Marriage ban in 2010, or wait until 2012, and many wonder what Maine's...

In NY, same-sex marriage bill hangs in balance: PHOTO
ALBANY - The fate of a bill legalizing same-sex Marriage is increasingly unclear as nervous state senators eye the 2010 Elections with last week's setbacks for Gay Rights in Maine and a New York House race still fresh in their minds. In advance of Tuesday's possible vote, advocates on both sides have focused on Republicans because the Democratic majority can only muster 25 to 29 of the 32 votes required for bill Adoption in the Senate . Gay Marriage comfortably passed the Assembly in May....

Gay Marriage Bill Faces Uncertain Fate in Albany: PHOTO
Gay Rights advocates have launched a final push to win support of a same-sex Marriage bill in New York, as state lawmakers are slated to gather tomorrow to vote on the measure.

In NY, same-sex marriage bill hangs in balance
ALBANY - The fate of a bill legalizing same-sex Marriage is increasingly unclear as nervous state senators eye the 2010 Elections with last week's setbacks for Gay Rights in Maine and a New York House race still fresh in their minds. In advance of Tuesday's possible vote, advocates on both sides have focused on Republicans because the Democratic majority can only muster 25 to 29 of the 32 votes required for bill Adoption in the Senate. Gay Marriage comfortably passed the Assembly in May.

After Maine, the Battle Lines Over Gay Marriage Harden
When America's Catholic bishops gather next week in Baltimore for a four-day conference, they will hear an update on the Church's ongoing fight to convince the country that Marriage as an institution should never include Gay couples, and they'll get a sneak peek at how that fight will be waged in the coming year. Videos aimed at priests and deacons are being produced in English and Spanish to give the pastors better tools to reach their parishioners, especially young people, whom the Church...

NY's Gay Marriage Bill Faces Uncertainty
From NBC New York: Gay Rights advocates have launched a final push to win support of a same-sex Marriage bill in New York, as state lawmakers are slated to gather tomorrow to vote on the measure. Gov. David Paterson has called legislators to Albany for the vote — saying he believes the measure will win enough support to sign into law. But, sources said negotiations are expected to go late into Monday night as Democratic leaders discuss whether to put the bill to a full vote in the Senate...

Portugal Ready to Leagalize Gay Marriage
According to sources, José Sócrates, the Prime Minister of Portugal, has been busy developing a new government after the Elections in September. Part of that new government is equality for the country’s LGBT citizens. On October 23, Sócrates stated that legalizing same-sex Marriage will be one of the new leadership’s first changes. According to a post on PortugalGay.pt : “The measure is part of the official program of the party and according to government sources, the move...

Gay-Marriage Fight Heads to New Jersey
From WSJ.com: The battle over Gay Rights will move to New Jersey and the federal government, advocates said, after Tuesday’s narrow rejection of same-sex Marriage by Maine voters in a hard-fought contest. The Democrat-controlled legislature in New Jersey, which currently recognizes same-sex couples in civil unions, is under pressure to pass a bill authorizing Gay Marriage before Gov. Jon Corzine ends his term in mid-January. Legal Patchwork View Interactive See a state-by-state breakdown...

Gay marriage : A protection for heterosexuals, these exes say
Gay Marriage : A protection for heterosexuals, these exes say

Just How Many Local Groups Does Cleve Jones Have? … Marriage for Portugal En Route: PHOTO
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Oops! AP Suggests There's 'No Evidence' That Students Will Take Field Trips to Gay Nuptials: PHOTO
Reporters at the Associated Press are clearly unhappy that Maine voters turned out to refuse to honor "Gay Marriage" at the ballot box. An AP dispatch two days ago by Lisa Leff and David Sharp suggested conservatives are misleading voters with charges that have "no evidence," like students going on a field trip to a Lesbian wedding. Are they that factually challenged at AP? From Fox News on

Gay Partnership Measure OKed in Wash.: PHOTO
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state voters have approved the state's new "everything but marriage" law, marking a significant expansion of Rights for Gay couples who are registered as domestic partners. National Gay-rights groups say the passage of Referendum 71 marks the first time a state's voters have approved a Gay equality measure at the ballot box. With about 69 percent of the expected vote counted Thursday in unofficial returns, R-71 was leading 52 percent to 48 percent. The measure asked...

DNC Failed to Tell Anyone How to Vote For Gay Marriage [Campaigns]
This should surprise no one but Obama's campaign organization, which has swallowed the DNC, failed to do any organizing for the Maine Gay Marriage vote, though it did email Maine volunteers asking them to make calls for Jon Corzine. And then they lied about it to John Aravosis. (Sort of.) Which is just fucking stupid. It's one thing to not bother to support your Gay constituency, it's another to insult them. We're told OFA is organizing an effective Health Care lobbying campaign, but it still...

Gay Partnership Measure OKed in Wash.: PHOTO
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state voters have approved the state's new "everything but marriage" law, marking a significant expansion of Rights for Gay couples who are registered as domestic partners. National Gay-rights groups say the passage of Referendum 71 marks the first time a state's voters have approved a Gay equality measure at the ballot box. With about 69 percent of the expected vote counted Thursday in unofficial returns, R-71 was leading 52 percent to 48 percent. The measure asked...

Gay Partnership Measure OKed in Wash.: PHOTO
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state voters have approved the state's new "everything but marriage" law, marking a significant expansion of Rights for Gay couples who are registered as domestic partners. National Gay-rights groups say the passage of Referendum 71 marks the first time a state's voters have approved a Gay equality measure at the ballot box. With about 69 percent of the expected vote counted Thursday in unofficial returns, R-71 was leading 52 percent to 48 percent. The measure asked...

Straight ex-spouses offer quiet voice for gay marriage: PHOTO
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Gay Marriage: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
“Gay Marriage is now legal in Iowa,” that is one of many things that show up on the news about Gay Marriage. Gay people should be able to marry because they are people, too and they should be treated like everyone else. Just think about what Gay people may be feeling when someone uses acrimonious speech against them. There has been history and things that have happened in the past about Gay Marriage and many people acclimate to hearing the words “Gay Marriage”. Even laws have been made...

The Associated Press: Schools emerge as new tactic in gay marriage votes
San Francisco — In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex Marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a Lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring Gay couples, kindergartners learning about homosexuality from their teachers. The strategy worked. Overruling the courts and lawmakers, voters defeated Gay Marriage ballot measures in California last year and in Maine this week after...

Paterson urges vote to OK spending cuts, gay marriage
ALBANY - Speaking to a joint legislative session Monday, Gov. David A. Paterson called for immediately closing the $3.2-billion budget deficit, but he and lawmakers remain far apart on spending cuts. Paterson also used the 15-minute address to lobby state senators to take up and pass legislation legalizing same-sex Marriage. However, he backed off from insisting they vote Tuesday, saying "this week" would be satisfactory.

A Quiet Voice for Gay Marriage
As the debate over legalizing same-sex Marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is personal but not often talked about. They are federal workers and professionals, men and women who share little except that their former spouses tried to live as heterosexuals but at some point realized they could not. Many of these former spouses — from those who still feel raw resentment toward their exes to those who have reached a mutual...

Marcos Breton: Local PR man is pivotal foe of gay marriage
The most effective man fighting to deny the right of Gay Marriage in America is Frank Schubert of Sacramento. Schubert ran the successful Yes on Proposition 8 campaign last year, the initiative banning Gay Marriage in California. This week, when Maine voted to repeal a new law allowing Gay Marriage, Schubert was again the pivotal organizer. If conventional wisdom on Gay Marriage inevitability were a balloon, Schubert would be the needle.

Feds, courts may step in if supes shield youths
San Francisco supervisors' effort to shield immigrant youths from deportation when they're arrested on felony charges comes to a head today when the board votes on an override of Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto - a vote Newsom says he'll disregard because the ordinance would violate federal law. Images View Larger Image More News Supervisor David Campos' legislation has enough votes to pass. At that point, San Francisco will be at the center of a simmering nationwide legal debate over state and local...

The Dopiness on Gay Marriage: PHOTO
Gay Marriage is a topic in the United States that will split many reasonable people. Being Australian, in a country that doesn't even accept civil unions,

Close to tears, council speaker urges vote on gay marriage
Jason Fink   As the state Senate considers whether to vote Tuesday to legalize same sex Marriage, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made an unusually emotional plea for the bill Monday. Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat who is Openly Gay, came close to tears when she was asked about the measure at an unrelated news conference. "This is literally a moment where people can stand up and say that everybody's family matters, that everybody's home is a blessed place and that everybody...