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A long line formed for gallery passes to the Supreme Court early this morning. Onlookers report a heavy media presence.

Via SCOTUSblog: “On Monday, June 24, we will begin live blogging at 9 a.m. ET. We expect orders from the June 20 Conference at 9:30 a.m. and opinions in argued cases at 10 a.m. If more decision days are added, we will update our calendar as soon as possible.”

Tomorrow might be the big day. Visit the interactive map at United For Marriage for details about rallies/protests in your city.  Should the rulings come down, New Yorkers are invited to gather at Sheridan Square outside the Stonewall Inn at 5:30PM.

Where will you go when the SCOTUS rulings come down?

SCOTUSblog writes: “On Monday, June 17, we will begin live-blogging at 9:00 a.m. We expect orders from the June 13 Conference at 9:30 and opinions in argued cases at 10. On Thursday, June 20, we will begin live-blogging at 9:30 a.m. We expect opinions in argued cases at 10.”

True to form, even getting an honorary Tony Award managed to piss off Larry Kramer. Michael Musto reports for Out Magazine: Downstairs, I found gramps Larry Kramer, who’d been briefly seen receiving a special award for his humanitarian work. He was sitting, but not in a wicker chair. And his normal heart wasn’t smiling. “It was all fucked up,” fumed …

Ten years ago today the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that Canadian law on marriage violated the equality provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in being restricted to heterosexual couples. Via the Globe And Mail: A decade later, Michael Leshner and Michael Stark — Canada’s first legally married same-sex couple — believe the battle to have their …

Fire Island’s Cherry Grove Community House will be placed on the New York and national registries of historic places in recognition of its role in creating “America’s first gay and lesbian town.” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand applauds via press release: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced today that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service placed Cherry Grove Community …

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the ninth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. This year it appears a week early because of a widely circulated …

(Via Towleroad)

The Church of England today formally announced that it will no longer object to Britain’s same-sex marriage bill as it has become apparent to them that a clear majority of Parliament supports it. In a short statement, the established Church said that the scale of the majorities in both the Commons and Lords made clear that it is the will …

The alumni of ACT UP New York will hold a reunion on June 22nd from 6:30PM to 11PM. This community-building event, which we hope will be the first of several, will reunite ACT UP members who confronted the government’s malignant neglect of the AIDS crisis and turned our anger into action that saved countless lives.  We are honored to have …

Note the photo of President Hollande. UPDATE: The live video has concluded. UDPATE II: Via Towleroad, here’s a clip of the ceremony.

Hundreds of journalists and a lot of police are on hand in the French city of Montpellier today as the nation prepares for its first same-sex wedding. The first gay wedding in France on Wednesday will be anything but a private and quiet affair. Echoing months of acrimonious debate over a same-sex marriage law that was approved by lawmakers in …

Citing a leaked document, the Bay Area Reporter says that the USPS may issue a commemorative Harvey Milk stamp next year. Linn’s Stamp News, a weekly publication that covers the mail service, is reporting in its May 27 issue that Milk was among the special stamps chosen for next year by the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee during its closed door …

“As we just learned, a man can still be murdered for being gay a few blocks away from the Stonewall Inn. But the rapidity of change has been stunning. The world only spins forward, as Tony Kushner wrote. And yet as we celebrate the forward velocity of gay rights, I think we must glance backward as well. History is being …

As some of you doubtlessly know, Sylvester willed the future royalties from his catalog to San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund and Project Open Hand.  And just in time for gay pride, next month Fantasy Records will re-issue his greatest package on multiple formats. From the press release: Twenty-five years after his untimely death, the iconic legacy of Sylvester, the “Queen …