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	Minnesota Legalizes Gay Marriage: Gov. Mark Dayton Signs Bill Into Law Minnesota officially became the 12th U.S. state to approve same-sex marriage May 14 when Gov. Mark Dayton appeared before a jubilant crowd to sign a marriage equality bill into law. ... Huffington Post • May 15, 2013

	Virginia Gay Marriage Poll Shows Shift In Views While 46 percent of Virginians oppose allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally here, 45 percent support the idea, according to a new poll sponsored by the University of Mary Washington's Center for Leadership and Media Studies. The result is a marked shift from a 2006 Virginia vote in which 57 percent supported the ban and 43 percent opposed it. ... Huffington Post • Apr 4, 2013

	Millennial Support For Gay Marriage Hits All-Time High: Pew Research Center The poll found 70 percent of adults born in 1981 or later, often referred to as millennials, support marriage equality. That's up from 64 percent in 2012, and an increase from 51 percent since the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009. Slightly more, 74 percent of millennials, say they believe gay and lesbian individuals should be accepted by society, while 22 percent disagree.... Huffington Post • Mar 22, 2013

	Colorado Civil Unions Bill Passes House Committee With One Republican 'Yes' Vote After five hours of testimony, Colorado's civil unions bill, which grants same-sex couples similar rights to that of married couples, easily cleared another hurdle passing in the House Judiciary Committee on an 8-3 vote. All Democrats voted in favor of the bill with one Republican joining them for the second straight year. ... Huffington Post • Mar 6, 2013

	Illinois Senate Votes To Legalize Gay Marriage Senators voted 34-21 to approve the measure, sending it on to the state House where Democrats also hold a majority. Gov. Pat Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, has said he will sign the bill if the House approves it.... Huffington Post • Feb 15, 2013

	Wyoming Legislative Committee Rejects Gay Marriage, Passes Domestic Partnerships The state House Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee issued the split decision Monday afternoon following a contentious two-hour hearing. While supporters of gay marriage described the need for Wyoming -- which is nicknamed the Equality State -- to pass the bill to ensure said equality, opponents offered a number of arguments against gay marriage, including moral and public... Huffington Post • Jan 29, 2013

	Mayors Supporting Gay Marriage More Than Tripled Over Past Year The United States may still be fiercely divided over same-sex marriage in some regions, but over the past year -- among many other signals that the country is shifting on gay rights -- the number of mayors who have pledged support for legalizing same-sex marriage has quietly grown from 80 to nearly 300. ... Huffington Post • Jan 18, 2013

	Rhode Island Gay Marriage Battle Heats Up Hundreds of supporters of same-sex marriage rights assembled at the Rhode Island Statehouse on Tuesday, urging lawmakers to make the nation's smallest state the 10th to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed - and the last to do so in New England. House Speaker Gordon Fox, who is gay, has called for a vote on same-sex marriage legislation in his chamber by month's end, making Rhode Island the lates... Huffington Post • Jan 16, 2013

	Reed Gusciora, New Jersey Assemblyman, Discusses Bill To Bring Gay Marriage To Ballot In State But now, frustrated that the Democratic leadership in the state legislature has not scheduled a veto override vote, as promised, and emboldened by polls that show a majority of New Jersey voters support marriage equality, Gusciora believes New Jersey voters should vote on the issue. And, confident after wins in Maine, Maryland and Washington state on marriage equality at the ballot, he has introdu... Huffington Post • Dec 17, 2012

	Gay Marriage Poll: DOMA Is Bad Law According to the poll, 43 percent of Americans labeled DOMA a bad law, while only 34 percent considered it a good law. Twenty-three percent of respondents said they were not sure. ... Huffington Post • Dec 17, 2012

	Gay Marriage And The Economy: Same-Sex Unions Will Boost Economy By $166 Million, Study Finds The Williams Institute at UCLA Law reported Monday that wedding spending by same-sex couples in the three newest states to approve gay marriage may generate more than $166 million over the next three years. ... Huffington Post • Nov 13, 2012

	Obama Reaffirms Same-Sex Marriage Platform As Election Closes An Obama administration official on Saturday confirmed the president's support for legislation that prevents the federal government from denying same-sex couples the same protections received by their straight counterparts. The same official also repeated that the president supports three ballot initiatives in separate states legalizing gay marriage, and opposes a constitutional amendment in Minne... Huffington Post • Oct 29, 2012

	Democrats criticize legal spending to defend DOMA The House's top two Democrats are criticizing Republicans for spending nearly $1.5 million over the past 15 months on outside lawyers to defend the Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as a union of a man and a woman.... Huffington Post • Oct 17, 2012

	SB 1140, California Bill Protecting Clergy From Performing Same-Sex Marriages, Passes Assembly A bill that would protect clergy members from performing same-sex marriages was presented to the California State Assembly by an unlikely author on Tuesday: gay rights activist Democratic Senator Mark Leno. The bill, SB 1140, passed the Assembly 48-24, reportedly with many Republicans voting against it.... Huffington Post • Sep 5, 2012

	Making a Business Case for Marriage Equality Companies across America have been making groundbreaking (and risky) decisions, founded on solid business cases, for years. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company set an early example in 2004, when it began offering benefits and diversity training to all employees. That same year it received a 100-percent rating on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. In the state of Washingto... Huffington Post • Sep 4, 2012

	Orrin Hatch Breaks With Mitt Romney On Gay Marriage Ban, Does Not Support Amendment On Tuesday Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mitt Romney's most prominent Mormon supporter in the U.S. Senate, broke with the presidential candidate on amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage, saying that even though he doesn't agree with marriage equality, "I'm a believer that the states should make their own determination" and "have a right to do it." ... Huffington Post • Aug 30, 2012

	Third Way Helps Moderate Democrats Craft Gay Marriage Stance For those ready to publicly embrace the issue, Third Way provides six talking points: emphasize that marriage is about a lifetime commitment; don't focus on words like "rights" and "benefits"; mention some of the "protections" denied to families by the Defense of Marriage Act; avoid using terms like "gay marriage" and instead say "marriage equality," to reflect marriage is marriage; tell the story... Huffington Post • Aug 22, 2012

	Edie Windsor vs. DOMA: 83-Year-Old Lesbian Petitions U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case On Monday, lawyers filed a petition on behalf of Edith "Edie" Windsor, an 83-year-old lesbian from New York, asking the Supreme Court to review her case, thus bypassing a second round in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, where the case is scheduled to appear next. Earlier this month, the Obama administration asked the high court to review two other cases challenging DOMA's constitutionality. With ... Huffington Post • Jul 16, 2012

	Freedom To Marry Aims Campaign At Young Conservatives Freedom to Marry on Tuesday launches "Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry" to highlight the demographic's growing support for marriage equality. While 61 percent of all Republicans said they believe same-sex marriage should be illegal in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, Republicans ages 18 to 44 were evenly split. ... Huffington Post • Jul 11, 2012

	Illinois Gay Marriage: Downstate County Clerks File To Defend State Gay Marriage Ban Two county clerks from downstate Illinois are asking a judge for permission to defend the state's gay marriage ban. Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan have said they won't defend the state against a lawsuit filed by 25 gay and lesbian couples because they too believe the ban is unconstitutional.... Huffington Post • Jul 2, 2012

	Colo. Civil Unions Bill Passes Biggest Test Yet The 6-5 vote came after hours of emotional testimony from gay couples who said they're vulnerable because they don't have the rights afforded to married people. One Republican joined Democrats in approving the bill. The plan died in the same committee last year on a 6-5 party line vote.... Huffington Post • May 4, 2012

	Kathryn Lehman, Republican Lesbian Who Helped Write DOMA, Is Now Lobbying To Repeal It Lehman, now 52, was chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution. She says she and her colleagues working on DOMA didn't think it would do much harm. They had two goals in mind: to prevent the federal government from recognizing any marriage between gay couples, and to ensure that states didn't have to recognize gay couples married in other states.... Huffington Post • Mar 29, 2012

	Maryland Gay Marriage Bill Advances After Joint Panel Passes Measure The House of Delegates' Judiciary Committee and the Health and Government Operations Committee approved the measure 25-18 in a joint vote, a judiciary panel spokeswoman said. The measure is expected to go to the full House on Wednesday, she said. ... Huffington Post • Feb 15, 2012

	Charlie Morgan, Lesbian Guardsman With Cancer, Meets John Boehner Staffer To Push DOMA Repeal Morgan spoke to HuffPost immediately after meeting with Haley. She said it went "very well. I was very pleased with the reception." She said she was able to explain her situation and "ask personally for Speaker Boehner not to defend DOMA because I may not have time to see this through the legislative process." She also gave Haley a packet to give to Boehner with photos of her wife, Karen; her fat... Huffington Post • Feb 10, 2012

	Charlie Morgan, John Boehner Staffer To Meet To Discuss DOMA Repeal The lesbian National Guardsman whose fruitless effort to secure an audience with someone in Speaker of the House John Boehner's office was first reported by The Huffington Post Wednesday will meet with one of his policy advisers next week. The meeting between Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charlie Morgan and Katherine Haley, who focuses on social policy, education and labor in the Speaker's office, is s... Huffington Post • Feb 2, 2012

	Adam Levine And Maroon 5 Boycotting Mexican Restaurant For Anti-Gay Marriage Stance Adam Levine has long been a supporter of the LGBT community and once again he's putting his money where his mouth is -- this time in regards to gay marriage. The Maroon 5 singer and "The Voice" star recently revealed that the band, which is up for the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance on February 12, has changed the location of their upcoming post-awards show party due to an unnamed Los A... Huffington Post • Jan 26, 2012

	Maryland Marriage Equality Bill Expected To See Quick Action In State Senate; House Support Still In Question Expect Maryland senators to approve marriage equality legislation in a hurry. As The Washington Post's John Wagner reported Thursday, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert County) "wants his chamber to act quickly on a same-sex marriage bill" during the 90-day legislative session, which began this week.... Huffington Post • Jan 13, 2012

	What Washingtonians (And the Rest of Us) Can Do to Help Make Marriage Equality a Reality Among some of the specific senators whom Washington United for Marriage will be focusing its efforts on is Democratic Senator Mary Margaret Haugen of the 10th Legislative District, who Silk says has publicly admitted to be wrestling with the issue. Silk also identifies Republican Senator Andy Hill of the 45th Legislative District as another target of the campaign. ... Huffington Post • Jan 10, 2012

	Md. Marriage Equality Could End Up On Ballot With State's Dream Act If Maryland lawmakers approve a marriage equality bill during the upcoming legislative session, opponents of same-sex marriage have pledged to organize a petition initiative and put it before voters during November's general election. If that happens, marriage equality in Maryland may end up on the same ballot as the state's Dream Act, which gives in-state tuition to college students living in th... Huffington Post • Jan 10, 2012

	Rick Santorum Blames Same-Sex Marriage For Plummeting Rates Of Marriage Across The Nation Rick Santorum indirectly sounded off on same-sex marriage yet again today, blaming the "changing definition" of the institution for plummeting rates of marriage across the nation. ... Huffington Post • Dec 16, 2011

	Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory: Australia's Battle for Marriage Equality Labor faithfully came up with a compromise that gives the appearance of supporting same-sex marriage while actually throwing gay couples under the bus. Enough Labor MPs oppose equality that if they were free to vote against the platform, it would fail. Gillard insisted on a "conscience vote" and got it. While equality won a place in the Labor platform, Gillard snatched defeat from the jaws of vict... Huffington Post • Dec 8, 2011

	North Carolina Gay Marriage Ban Protested By Gay Ministers As the battle over same-sex marriage continues to cause tensions around the country, a group of ministers and their supporters are launching a protest Monday afternoon in favor of marriage equality in North Carolina.... Huffington Post • Oct 4, 2011

	Cuomo Seeks Gay Marriage Vote By End Of Week; Sources Say GOP Senators Hannon, Lanza, McDonald Ready To Vote 'Yes' With a vote possible by midweek, Governor Andrew Cuomo has summoned elected officials, gay rights advocates and labor groups to the State Capitol building on Monday afternoon for a strategy session on how to pass a marriage equality bill through the New York state senate., reports the New York Times. Cuomo wants the vote before the legislative session ends on June 20th. The meeting will try to de... Huffington Post • Jun 14, 2011

	King & Spalding Faces Backlash Over Firm's Support of DOMA Jon Davidson, legal director of Lambda Legal, the nation's oldest and largest legal organization working for LGBT equality, was quoted as saying about King & Spalding's decision to take the case as "Depressing," and that "I think it's going to hurt them in their recruiting of future lawyers." Interestingly, in 2006 the firm announced national sponsorship of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education ... Huffington Post • Apr 23, 2011

	'Brookings' Of Gay Rights Movement Marks 10 Years As Brains Behind Marriage, DADT Policy Shifts If there has been a single intellectual engine driving the shift in attitudes and laws regarding sexual orientation, it is arguably the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. As it celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, the California think tank has grown into the 'Brookings Institution' of the gay rights movement. "Objectivity is our modus operandi, the source of our credibility," said B... Huffington Post • Apr 8, 2011

	Exclusive Clip Reveals Church Coerced Members to Raise Millions For Prop. 8 Campaign (VIDEO) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints waged spiritual warfare with money and misinformation in an epic astroturf campaign against gay citizens, according to a new film by journalist and former Mormon missionary Reed Cowan. The film, "8: The Mormon Proposition," documents the church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 and the religion's ongoin... Huffington Post • Jun 4, 2010

	The San Francisco Marriage Case, Part Two: The Supreme Court The political consequences of the case haven't gotten much attention, but they may be very important. Particularly if the plaintiffs win, but perhaps in any case, it is going to be very difficult to rally the LGBT community and its progressive allies to go back to the ballot in California while the case is still going on. People are not going to want to invest lots of time and money in an electora... Huffington Post • Mar 15, 2010

	The San Francisco Marriage Case, Part One: Possible Outcomes There are essentially four possible outcomes in the San Francisco marriage case (Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case brought by Ted Olson and David Boies): the Big Win, the Smaller Win, the Smaller Loss and the Big Loss.... Huffington Post • Mar 12, 2010

	Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Judge "I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves," Bardwell said. "In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer." If he does an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said. "I try to treat everyone equally," he said.... Huffington Post • Oct 15, 2009

	When Should Gay Marriage Advocates Try to Reverse California's Prop 8? And so the question remains: When best to try to roll back the ultimate failure of 2008? In 2010 or in 2012? The emotional answer is clearly the former. The more measured answer the latter. But politics frequently turns, for better or worse, on emotion.... Huffington Post • Aug 11, 2009

	All Hands on Deck in the Prop 8 Litigation I was one of those voices that raised questions about timing and strategy when the federal lawsuit was filed. I am willing to admit that I may have been wrong, and that the Olson-Boies team may prove to have been visionary. Only time will tell. Our goal right now must be to ensure the best possible outcome for this lawsuit. We all agree: Proposition 8 is an unconstitutional and discriminatory den... Huffington Post • Jul 22, 2009

	Black, Gay and Reclaiming 'Civil Rights' The thing is that are plenty of allies and leaders from the black community who do support full civil rights for LGBTs who can be cited when dealing with this issue -- John Lewis, Julian Bond, Leonard Pitts, Al Sharpton, Gov. Deval Patrick, Gov. David Paterson, to name a few. Members of black community who consistently oppose LGBT rights conveniently choose to ignore these leaders -- they have to ... Huffington Post • May 30, 2009

	Gay Marriage in Vermont: Three Progressive Lessons Politics, like baseball, is often a game of inches. Individuals can make a difference. Getting people to the polls and on the phones can be the critical difference between victory and defeat.... Huffington Post • Apr 20, 2009

	Winning the Freedom to Marry? Cue the Attack on the Gays! Though they wrap it in marriage, the opposition is actually about gay - and they are attacking the idea that civil rights laws should protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation at all.... Huffington Post • Apr 11, 2009

	Repealing Prop 8: Ballot May Be Last Option It's depressing to think - after having just lost an expensive and exhausting campaign - that repealing Proposition 8 could mean going back to the ballot. It is unfair and unjust that a slim majority of California voters took a fundamental right away from a minority, jeopardizing equal protection. But the state Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the City Attorney's lawsuit yesterday, and the si... Huffington Post • Mar 6, 2009

	Prop 8: Let's Not Make the Same Mistake Next Time Research has shownthat the single most effective way to change people's minds on LGBT issues is through one-to-one conversations, between either gay people or solid allies and their friends and family. Knowing someone gay, it turns out, is not enough. People have to talk with someone they trust about what it is like to be gay--ways in which it poses special challenges, ways in which it is quite or... Huffington Post • Feb 27, 2009

	The $248 Million Stimulus New Jersey's Not Taking Based on the economic impact to places with similar laws, the Williams Institute at UCLA projects that marriage equality would result in $248 million of direct spending in NJ over the course of 3 years. Resident couples and those from out of state would spend, spend, spend. Especially those from New York, whose wedded status would be recognized by their home state.... Huffington Post • Feb 11, 2009

	Gay Marriage In New York Unlikely in '09 or '10 Squadron is not opposed to attempting in 2009, but said their were basically two strategies. Either, put the bill up in 2009 and risk a defeat or lay the ground work for passage later. "Just making the Senate Democratic is not enough, we need a fundamental change in Senate culture," Squadron explained. He believes that while the Senate is progressing, we aren't there yet. Laying the ground work f... Huffington Post • Feb 6, 2009

	Marriott and Milk My guess is that Bill Marriott, who is 76 and a political conservative, has come a long way on the issue of gay rights. But for all his talk about diversity, he has yet to take a position on gay marriage or Prop 8. He has no obligation to do so, but if you believe that gay marriage is a civil rights issue, just as interracial marriage was once a civil rights issue, silence or neutrality is unaccep... Huffington Post • Dec 15, 2008

	Fighting for Gay Marriage in Iowa Equal Protection is the next logical stop for legal protection in the marriage debate. But courts have determined that the judicial scrutiny provided for legislation that imposes sex discrimination does not apply to discrimination based on sexual orientation.... Huffington Post • Dec 9, 2008

	Changing Tides in the Fight for LGBT Rights We will need to continue to increase our visibility, make our voices heard, and work to translate this progress into policies and legal protections for LGBT people.... Huffington Post • Dec 6, 2008

	The Prop 8 Monologues, Vol. 1 of 2 - What Would Ronald McDonald Do? ...here's the no-holds-barred truth about what legalized same-sex marriage has done to Canada: Not a whole heck of a lot. In fact, things are pretty much exactly the same as before the law was passed.... Huffington Post • Dec 3, 2008

	Hey, Mormons! Your Yes on 8 Pals Don't Like You! A number of religious groups don't consider Mormons to be Christians ... But many denominations are more than willing to overlook these divergences of faith and use the "non-Christian" LDS for money and manpower to suppress gays.... Huffington Post • Nov 28, 2008

	Proposition 8 Backlash: What's Wrong with Discriminating Against Those Who Want to Discriminate? ... Huffington Post • Nov 23, 2008

	A Letter to My Brother Newt Gingrich ... Huffington Post • Nov 22, 2008

	The Non-Campaign to Beat Proposition 8 ... Huffington Post • Nov 10, 2008

	Four Lessons Gay Marriage Activists Must Learn From Obama ... Huffington Post • Nov 10, 2008

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