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When Can Gay Marriage Resume In California?

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 03.28.2013 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court seems reluctant to use the legal battle over California's same-sex marriage ban to rule that all gay Amer...

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DOMA Challenges Prompt Windfalls For Gay Couples

AP | By LISA LEFF | Posted 03.10.2013 | Gay Voices
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SAN FRANCISCO -- For Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, two women in their 70s who fell in love more than four decades ago and have been married for more ...

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POLL: California Overwhelmingly Supports Gay Marriage

AP | Posted 02.28.2013 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A new poll shows that a record 61 percent of Californians now approve of allowing same-sex couples to marry. The Field Poll found 78...

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Marriage Equality In California... And Beyond!

Renata Moreira | Posted 02.05.2013 | Gay Voices
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Renata Moreira

There my fiancée Lori and I were, having exchanged rings and promised to each other that we would spend the rest of our lives together. But suddenly a wave of fear and anxiety washed over me. I couldn't help but question whether we were ready to face the formidable odds ahead of us.

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Proposition 8 Backers Move To Have Case Heard By Supreme Court

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 07.31.2012 | Politics
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Supporters of California's gay marriage ban, blocked by two federal courts, filed a petition to the Supreme Court on Tuesday urging the justices to ta...

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California Gay Marriage Ban Headed To The Supreme Court

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 08.05.2012 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gay marriage took another step Tuesday on its march to the U.S. Supreme Court, when a federal appeals court that struck down Cal...

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California's Gay Marriage Ban Headed For The Supreme Court

Reuters | Peter Henderson and Dan Levine | Posted 08.05.2012 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (Reuters) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way on Tuesday for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider California's...

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Is High-Speed Rail Losing Supporters?

| Posted 05.08.2012 | San Francisco
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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Will Evans With most Californians worried about the state budget and opposed to trigge...

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Robin Wilkey

California Poll Reveals Huge News For Same-Sex Marriage

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 02.29.2012 | San Francisco
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A recent California poll has infused a huge dose of hope into the state's battle for marriage equality. On Wednesday, a Field Poll revealed that 59...

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PHOTOS: The Hollywood Hordes That Helped Defeat Prop 8

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles & Anna Almendrala | Posted 02.07.2012 | Los Angeles
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California's 2008 ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional on Tuesday by a federal appeals court, and while most of Los Angeles will be out part...

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Judge Deals Major Blow To Gay Marriage Supporters

Posted 04.03.2012 | San Francisco
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A video recording of the 2010 trial that challenged the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, will...

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'Pivotal' Prop 8 Decision Due

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.17.2012 | Gay Voices
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By Lisa Lef, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court says ballot proposition sponsors can step in to defend their initiatives ...

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It's Time for a 'Protect Marriage' Movement That Protects All Marriages

Rev. Ed Bacon | Posted 01.10.2012 | Gay Voices
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Rev. Ed Bacon

As the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on the Respect for Marriage Act on Capitol Hill, our nation takes a much-needed step toward making liberty and justice for all not just a pledge but a reality.

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We All Have an Equal Stake

Stuart Gaffney | Posted 12.24.2011 | Gay Voices
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Stuart Gaffney

In an ancillary opinion in the Prop 8 litigation, Chief Judge Ware explained more clearly than ever how we all benefit when we protect the fundamental rights of each other. The members of the targeted minority group are not the only ones who gain.

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Federal Court Deals Another Big Setback To Gay Marriage Supporters

AP | Posted 11.27.2011 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court has put the brakes on unsealing video recordings of last year's trial on the constitutionality of California'...

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California's Gay Marriage Ban Faces Next Legal Hurdle

AP/The Huffington Post | By LISA LEFF | Posted 11.06.2011 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's highest court seems inclined to side with backers of the state's same-sex marriage ban in thinking that the state C...

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California Supreme Court Agrees To Rule On Gay Marriage Ban Defense

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court decided Wednesday to wade back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marri...

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Same-Sex Marriage Case Will Be Broadcast On C-Span

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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SAN FRANCISCO — An upcoming appeals court hearing on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban will be televised. The 9th U.S. ...

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Marriage Equality: Which Video Defines It Best? (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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The Courage Campaign, a California-based progressive organizing network, is advancing efforts to achieve marriage equality in the Golden State and acr...

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Same-Sex Marriage: In the Beginning, There Was the Word

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Rick Horowitz

The way he looked at it, he and his fellow heterosexuals had some serious work ahead of them cleaning up their own acts before they could think about casting that first stone at anyone else.

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Queeries: "Prop 8 and My Marriage"

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Steven Petrow

While Judge Walker's ruling against Prop 8 is great news for the gay rights movement, it really shouldn't take a judge's word for a family to treat a gay marriage like any other.

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California Protest Seeks Social Security Benefits For Gays

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES — Protesters chanting slogans and carrying signs marched in Hollywood Sunday to demand equal Social Security benefits for same-sex c...

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California Gay Marriage Support Hits 50 Percent

Sacramento Bee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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Support for same-sex marriage appears to be increasing in California and has hit 50 percent for the first time in polling by the Public Policy Institu...

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Proposition 8: Pastors Say Prop. 8 Could Lead To Polygamy, Bestiality

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gay people in California enjoy substantial political power as a result of nearly unanimous support from high-ranking elected off...

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Sam Stein

Gavin Newsom Calls Obama's Inaction On Gay Marriage 'Fundamentally Inexcusable'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom became the latest Democratic official to take a noticeably public swipe at President Barack Obama for inaction on gay...

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