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Marriage will be on Maine’s ballot this November. And for the first time, it is gay activists who put it there. Advocates of same-sex marriage turned in more than enough signatures to move ahead with a citizens initiative that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry in Maine, the Secretary of State’s Office ruled Thursday. More than 85,000 voter …

“I’d like to thank Senate President Miller for his leadership and our legislators in the Senate for their hard work and their vote today for human dignity. All children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law. The common thread running through our efforts together in Maryland is the thread …

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Maryland and marriage equality will certainly make a lovely couple. Maryland is the Free State, after all. To be able to share and celebrate one’s love and commitment both publicly and legally is a lifelong dream for thousands of same-sex couples and their families. It’s thrilling that Maryland is poised to make this a …

By the expected margin of 25-22, the Maryland Senate has PASSED its marriage equality bill. Gov. Martin O’Malley has pledged to make Maryland the EIGHTH state with same-sex marriage. Reactions to follow shortly in a new post. LAST FRIDAY: Maryland House passes marriage bill. EARLIER TODAY: Things are underway. This is the third and final reading/debate of the bill and …

Log Cabin Republicans head R. Clark Cooper and former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman will be co-hosts of a fundraiser to reelect GOP House Speaker John Boehner. Why would two self-proclaimed supporters of LGBT rights work to maintain the regime of the man who has vowed to thwart the overturn of DOMA and who recently tripled the legal budget to do …

“The effort to redefine marriage to include same-sex partners is a radical social innovation, one fraught with dangerous implications for individuals, families, and culture. Claiming to be post-political and then allowing one’s chief corporate spokesperson to say that same-sex ‘marriage’ is ‘is core to who we are and what we value as a company’ are assertions that don’t quite add …

Taking their cue from their American counterparts in hate, the anti-gay marriage movement in Britain has adopted the same language and even the same type of graphics. Details.