House GOP: $3M in DOMA Defense

On Tuesday, House GOP leaders signed a nearly $3 million legal contract to keep defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law that defines marriage as a union between a woman and a man. ...

Daily Beast • Jan 16, 2013

In France, Battle for Gay Marriage Heats Up

In Paris on Wednesday, the French cabinet approved a draft bill to allow homosexual couples to marry and adopt children as early as 2013. The controversial bill marks President François Hollande's first major societal reform. "Progress not just for a few but for all of society," he said Wednesday....

Daily Beast • Nov 12, 2012

Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues

Read the bluntness of this. This is the GOP establishment talking to itself. And the Republican pollster who arguably knows more about the politics of the gay issue than anyone else (how else to explain the Ohio campaign of 2004?) is advising them in no uncertain terms that they need to evolve and fast, if they're not going to damage their brand for an entire generation:...

Daily Beast • May 13, 2012

The Godfather of Gay Marriage

Earlier in the year, the administration said that the Justice Department would no longer defend DOMA in court, and this week the White House said President Obama would support the new legislation repealing it. But the political reality is that DOMA is unlikely to be repealed this year because the Republican controlled House supports it. Wednesday's hearing, Wolfson he says, "is just a first step....

Daily Beast • Jul 20, 2011

New York Passes Gay Marriage: This Is the Tipping Point

First, public opinion has shifted dramatically in favor of recognizing same sex marriages. In May, the Gallup Poll found that for the first time a majority of Americans supported legalizing gay marriage, aided by a boost from independent voters, whose support increased from 49 percent to 59 percent in the last year alone. The high-profile court case to overturn California's Prop 8, led by the bipa...

Daily Beast • Jun 26, 2011

Gay Marriage's Unlikely Hero

On June 6, two weeks before the legislative session was officially set to end, Mehlman was back in the state capitol to drive his argument home. He met one-on-one with 13 lawmakers, including the four Republican state senators who eventually voted in favor of the bill. Mehlman took pains not to draw too much attention to his efforts. As his friend, Bill Smith, political director at the Gill Action...

Daily Beast • Jun 26, 2011

Gay Immigrants' Same-Sex Marriage Lifeline

Two seemingly obscure meetings held this week between USCIS officials and immigration lawyers suggest help may be on the way. Newsweek/The Daily Beast has learned that the heads of two USCIS districts--Washington, D.C. and Baltimore--informed attorneys from the advocacy group American Immigration Lawyers Association that cases in their districts involving married gay and lesbian couples would be...

Daily Beast • Mar 27, 2011

The Gay Marriage Fiasco

Not surprisingly, Cathcart did not say a global change of venue was on the table, suggesting instead that the movement had to keep figuring out what kind of campaigns-political as well as educational-were needed to move the middle in the states where the question remains open. Cathcart admitted that on the ground, "a certain degree of success is essential to keep people motivated, and, if they see...

Daily Beast • Dec 11, 2009

Memo to the GOP: Go Gay

Republican resistance to gay marriage goes against conservative values--and our own self-interests....

Daily Beast • Apr 13, 2009