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...

Ian Mckellen - Mckellen Vows To Fight For Gay Marriage: PHOTO
British actor SIR Ian McKellen has vowed to fight on in support of Gay Marriage in America - urging campaigners never to give up on the cause. Same-sex marriages were made legal in the U.S. for the first time in California last year (09), but state legislation Proposition 8 ruled the unions illegal just six months after they were declared valid. The political backtracking sparked anger amongst the Gay community, and McKellen is adamant the fight must go on to ensure all citizens are granted the...

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...

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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.

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...

Gay leaders blame TV ads, Obama for loss in Maine - Yahoo! News
San Francisco – Stunned and angry, national Gay Rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads — and President Barack Obama 's lack of engagement — for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the Gay-marriage debate. Conservatives, in contrast, celebrated Maine voters' rejection of a law that would have allowed Gay couples to wed, depicting it as a warning shot that should deter politicians in other states from pushing for...

NY State Budget To Be Center Stage At Special Session
Get ready for some Albany-style bickering! Tomorrow, Governor Paterson will convene a special session of the Legislature to discussion issues like the $3 billion budget deficit and—possibly—Gay Marriage, but the NY Times is worried enough that it has an editorial , " Albany’s toughest and most important job right now is to make certain that New York does not become another California, running out of cash, paying bills with i.o.u.’s and watching state credit ratings...

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.

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...

Straight ex-spouses offer quiet voice for gay marriage: PHOTO
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Carrie Prejean: Embarrassing Sex Tape "Worst Mistake of My Life": VIDEO
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean confirmed the existence of an “embarrassing” and “humiliating” Sex tape she made as a teenager, and said it was the worst mistake of her life. “I was all by myself. I was sending my boyfriend at the time, who I loved and cared about, you know, video of me,” the 22-year-old told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday before promoting her new book. Prejean, a conservative cause celebre since speaking out against Gay Marriage in...

New Hampshire Legislature Approves Same-Sex Marriage
NEW YORK, June 3 -- New Hampshire this afternoon became the sixth state to allow Gay Marriage, after Gov. John Lynch (D) signed a revised bill approved by both houses of the legislature.

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...

Gay Marriage from an Australian Point of View
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, maybe I'm not the best person to talk on the matter. But I will. I don't passionately believe in Gay Marriage on the basis that I believe in equal rights (although I'm favorable to that argument.) Instead I believe in Gay Marriage on the basis that the state marries people, and the state should never discriminate. If you seriously...

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,

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.

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....

Voters Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law
The Maine Legislature passed a law last spring that would have legalized same-sex Marriage. Implementation of the law was put on hold after conservatives launched a petition drive to repeal it in a voter referendum. In every state to which it has been put to a popular vote, Gay Marriage has now lost every time. That amounts to 31. This includes liberal enclaves such as California, where Proposition 8 last year amended the state Constitution to define Marriage as solely between a man and a...

High Turnout for Maine Gay Marriage Referendum: PHOTO
Voters in Maine are deciding today whether or not to repeal a law allowing same-sex Marriage, and could make their state the first in the country to embrace Gay Marriage at the ballot box. Similar measures -- most famously California's Proposition 8 -- have all been successful in striking down judicial attempts to legalize same-sex Marriage. Final polls show Maine voters evenly split on Question 1, a measure that has drawn national attention and a horde of activists to the state. Maine...

As Maine goes, so goes gay marriage
Maine could become the first state to endorse Gay Marriage by popular referendum Tuesday, as voters head to the polls to decide whether to repeal a recently-passed law legalizing unions between people of the same gender. One year after California's Proposition 8 struck down Gay Marriage in the largest state in the Union, this sparsely populated New England state has become the latest battleground in the debate over the definition of Marriage, offering supporters of same-sex Marriage the chance...

Maine Rejects Gay Marriage
One year after California rejected Proposition 8, Gay Marriage has once again failed to find popular approval: Voters in Maine opted on Tuesday to repeal legislature-approved Gay Marriage, 53 percent to 47 percent. The rebuke came as a surprise to Marriage-equality activists: Protect Maine Equality had outraised its main rival by over $1 million, and Maine’s. Democratic Governor John Baldacci was pleased in an earlier interview to announce “a lot of young people were showing...

Maine Follows In California's Footsteps
Prop 8 all over again! Maine has voted AGAINST the legalization of same-sex marriage. Sad.

Photos: Last Night's Gay Marriage Rally
( cop4cbt ) NEXT »   Last year at this time, the Gay community (and then some) lost their collective shit over the passing of Prop 8, a pro-discrimination measure that effectively pruned the rights of Gay married couples. The passing of the anti-marriage confused and disturbing " Fuck Mormons " banner from his home, while blaming " middle class people " for Prop 8's passing(!); and this handy map of those who donated to Prop 8 . Basically, it brought out the best and worst in people....

Anti-Prop 8 March Held in Hollywood: PHOTO
Hollywood (myFOXla.com) - About 200 people hit participated in a New Orleans-style funeral and march in Hollywood to mark the one year anniversary of Proposition 8. The highly controversial proposition defined marriage as only between a man and a woman. Hal Eisner was in Silverlake and has more on the march in this video report.