MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont's attorney general says the state is the latest to ask an appeals court to rule that the federal law defining marriage...
For all the grand statements about the importance of marriage to our society, the state does very little to regulate who can enter a heterosexual union -- you only need to know your name, your address, your birthday and where your parents were born.
Often considered a pioneer in terms of its legislative approach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, Vermont made history yet agai...
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Making good on a campaign promise, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin married a lesbian couple in a small ceremony in his office. The...
While it would be better to acknowledge the damage done to individuals as a rationale to stop the practice, at the very least the APA took a step forward to stop the practice of reparative therapy for good.
We should view the California court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.
Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean discussed his evolution on gay marriage Tuesday, telling ABC News' "Top Line" that he would have signed a...
For too long, federalism, the Madisonian concept of shared power between state and federal government, has been an idea monopolized by conservatives.
For now, gay marriage belongs to ordinary politics and its eventual acceptance will only be enhanced by avoiding courts and allowing the legislative process to work.
Two thousand six hundred dollars for a seat in Yankee Stadium? For that money, do i get a lap dance during the seventh inning stretch?
If it's not worth it to win marriage equality, to unite to spite the right, it's definitely worth it to stop the insurgent Iowan and Vermontian hubris and salvage our street cred among freaks.
Who would have thought that in the aftermath of Prop. 8 in California, one of the most liberal states in the union, so much would happen so quickly for gay marriage?
The grass roots support that was evident in today's vote signifies strong support for equal rights for our gay and lesbian relatives, friends, and neighbors to a degree that has not happened before.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont, which invented civil unions, on Tuesday became a pioneer again as the first state to legalize gay marriage through a ...
When I'm asked how heterosexual marriage traditions translate to same-sex marriages, I find I almost always give the same answer: You have pretty much all the same options as anyone else.
This letter arrives via Rex Wockner, a San Diego- based syndicated journalist via author Edmund White. Author John Irving (The World According to Ga...
