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New York’s top insurance regulator says that insurance companies must treat gay couples legally married in other states the same way they treat straight married couples. “We expect insurance companies to provide the same rights and benefits to all legally married couples, regardless of the sex of the spouses,” Superintendent Eric Dinallo said today in an e-mailed statement. The insurance …

Tonight at the LGBT Community Center in NYC there will be a town hall meeting on the state of the marriage equality movement in New York. “What’s Next for Marriage Equality in New York?” Town Hall to discuss what’s next? How will we achieve marriage equality in 2009? Time and PlaceDate: Monday, November 24, 2008Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pmLocation: The LGBT …

This interesting marriage equality ad with a twist comes from tennis legend Bjorn Borg’s fashion company, which debuts the ad on Swedish television today. The vocalist is Norwegian pop star Ane Brun, who now resides in Sweden. Borg also owns a dating site called Love For All, which has a rather amusing interface. “Let’s fix some sweet loving right now!” …

The backers of Proposition 8 have begun to splinter. Protect Marriage, worried about being associated with the “extreme fringe” elements of the Christianist movement, has convinced the California Supreme Court to bar the Liberty Counsel from representing the Campaign For California Families in the coming legal battle. The group that persuaded California voters this month to pass Proposition 8, which …

“Dear Newt, “I recently had the displeasure of watching you bash the protesters of the Prop 8 marriage ban to Bill O’Reilly on FOX News. I must say, after years of watching you build your career by stirring up the fears and prejudices of the far right, I feel compelled to use the words of your idol, Ronald Reagan, ‘There …

There’s a really cute bit of activism going on at Princeton in which advocates for “Princeton Prop 8” say that they love freshmen, they really do, but they should not be allowed to use the sidewalks. Sidewalks are for traditional use, not for some redefined non-traditional sidewalk values users. From the comments on YouTube:-“To be fair, freshman have the right …

Over on Huffington Post, Phil Zuckerman makes an interesting comparison between very religious nations and relatively secular ones in respect to the Christiantists’ claim that God smites heathen nations. Consider the nations of Scandinavia specifically. These countries are noteworthy because they were among the first nations to make abortion legal and readily available and they were also among the first …

Maps via Freedom To Marry.

There’s more to the story of Phylliss Burgess, 69, the “Styrofoam Cross Lady” that is currently the darling of Christianist websites after her cross was ripped from her hands and stomped during a Prop 8 rally in Palm Springs. If you buy the story being told on right-wing sites, Burgesss is a frail, elderly, innocent victim of “gay fascists.” But …

Here’s another Activism 4.0 project, only this one uses snail-mail. CivilRightsFront.com wants you to mail postcards to Barack Obama requesting the immediate repeal of the Defense Of Marriage Act. President-elect Barack ObamaPresidential Transition OfficeKluczynski Federal Building230 S. Dearborn St., 38th FloorChicago, IL 60604 WRITE A MESSAGE – I recommend that we all write the same thing, so that our message …

Tonight at 7pm EST there will be a LiveBlog hosted on the Bilerico Project during which the public can pose questions to Kate Kendell, Nadine Smith, and Barbara McCullough-Jones – the three women who led the anti-amendment movements in Florida, Arizona and California. The live Q&A will be hosted by Bilerico editor Bil Browning and Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House …

Could four more New England states get marriage equality by 2012? The group that helped legalize gay marriage in two New England states wants to do the same in the other four by the year 2012. GLAD — which stands for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders — announced the campaign Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the key court decision …

Via Los Angeles Times: The California Supreme Court agreed today to review legal challenges to Prop. 8, the voter initiative that restored a ban on same-sex marriage, but refused to permit gay weddings to resume pending a ruling. Meeting in closed session, the state high court asked litigants on both sides for more written arguments and scheduled a hearing for …

“As I watch 100,000 people pile together shouting, ‘Gay, Straight, Black, White: Marriage is a Civil Right,’ begging to be allowed by law to participate in a life of homosexual behavior, I am impressed by how desensitized we have come as a society. “When I get despondent and feel that the voice of life in our American culture is threatened …

Chuck Norris, 2008 Nightmare Hairpiece Olympics gold medalist, thinks that protesting against the result of Prop 8 is anarchy. Regardless of one’s opinion of Proposition 8, it is flat-out wrong and un-American to intimidate and harass individuals, churches and businesses that are guilty of nothing more than participating in the democratic process. Political protests are one thing, but when old-fashioned …

“The organization No On 8 failed us. Before the TV ad war started, we were up 14-17 points in the polls. Then No On 8 spent some $37 million of your money to spam the California airwaves with really lousy ads, while the other side spent a similar amount to spam the California airwaves with ads that were, whatever else …

OMFG, get out a Kleenex for this one. Yesterday on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, 7 year-old piano prodigy Emily Bear performed her original composition Once Upon A Wish for Ellen “because you got your wish and got married.” Start the clip at the 4:00 mark. I have a feeling that we’ll be hearing this song at a LOT of gay …

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