For the first time, a Brazilian appeals court has ruled that a gay couple can be legally married, several months after the country’s supreme court ruled in favor of civil union recognition for gay and lesbian couples.
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National figures released earlier this week show a greater willingness from gay and lesbian couples to stand up and be counted.
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Guest / 2:30pm ET – Xorje Olivares of OutQ News joins us to recap the historic day yesterday in New York as it celebrated hundreds of gay and lesbian couples get married.Guest / 3:30pm ET – This year marked the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and th…
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Wednesday evening, the Rhode Island State Senate passed not marriage equality, but a bill to permit civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee has said he’s likely to sign the bill into law.
Marriage equality groups, however, have called the bill flawed and discriminatory due to an amendment that they say would allow religiously-affiliated [...]
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Seven gay and lesbian couples plan to file a lawsuit in New Jersey state
court Wednesday seeking marriage equality.
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Couples lined up at courthouses across Illinois Wednesday as civil
unions became available to gay and lesbian couples for the first time
in the state.
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Costa Rica president Laura Chinchilla says she won’t oppose a court’s ruling to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
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A new CNN/Opinion Research poll is the latest to find a majority of Americans now support legal marriage for same-sex couples. The poll, released yesterday, found 51 percent of respondents think marriages between gay and lesbian couples “should be recognized as valid.” That’s an increase of 7 percentage points since CNN asked the same question one [...]
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More than half of Americans say that marriages of gay and lesbian
couples should be legally valid, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research
poll released Tuesday.
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Arizona’s top gay rights organization is urging Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a
bill passed by the state senate that would make it difficult for gay
and lesbian couples to adopt children.
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