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Minnesota Gov. Dayton signs gay marriage bill

By: Associated Press 05/14/13 5:57 PM
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Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday signed a bill making gay marriage legal in Minnesota, the 12th state to take the step, as thousands of onlookers cheered. "What a day for Minnesota!" Dayton, a Democrat, declared moments before putting his signature on a bill. "And what a difference a year and an election can make in our state." Read More

Minn. House approves gay marriage; would be 12th state

By: Associated Press 05/09/13 7:13 PM
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A historic vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a law out of its Legislature. Read More

RI legislature OKs gay marriage bill; gov to sign

By: Associated Press 05/02/13 8:42 PM
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Rhode Island is joining nine other states and the District of Columbia in allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry after the state's General Assembly gave it a final procedural vote on Thursday. Read More

US Supreme Court could avoid ruling on gay marriage ban

By: The Associated Press 03/26/13 10:05 AM
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dove into a historic debate on gay rights Tuesday that could soon lead to resumption of same-sex marriage in California, but the justices signaled they may not be ready for a major national ruling on whether America's gays and lesbians have a right to marry. Read More

Couple returns to San Francisco after global search for ‘super gays’

By: Andrea Koskey 03/10/13 7:26 PM
Lisa Dazols and Jenni Chang traveled to East Africa in 2011 in search of inspirational gay men and women, and among the folks they met was a straight reverend in Kenya who felt it was wrong for a church to discriminate against gays. The man’s beliefs led to him being labeled gay, and he lost his position with his church. Yet he still works with Christian and Muslim leaders to challenge their stances and ways of thinking. Read More

U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Prop. 8 case in March

By: Bay City News 01/07/13 8:37 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear arguments March 26 on the constitutionality of California’s 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.Sponsors of Proposition 8 and their committee, Protect Marriage, are appealing a ruling made last year in which the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the initiative. Read More

Supreme Court’s review of Prop. 8 inspires hope, fears

By: By Mark Sherman 12/09/12 7:19 PM
Gay marriage supporters see 41 reasons to fret over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up the case of California’s ban on same-sex unions.While nine states allow same-sex partners to marry, or will soon, 41 states do not. Of those, 30 have written gay marriage bans into their state constitutions. Read More

U.S. high court inching closer to decision on whether to hear Prop. 8 case

By: Andrea Koskey 10/29/12 10:48 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court could make a decision as soon as December on whether it will consider the legality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. On Nov. 20, justices will consider whether or not to hear the case, and that decision could go public as soon as Nov. 26. If the high court does not consider the case, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued in February will be upheld. That judgment deemed California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Read More

New San Francisco archbishop jokes about recent DUI charge

By: Lisa Leff 10/04/12 7:47 PM
Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith’s most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday without referring to the distress his appointment has aroused in this gay-friendly city, but offering self-deprecating jokes about his recent drunken driving arrest. Read More

U.S. Supreme Court's views evolving on LGBT issues

By: Joan Biskupic 09/09/12 5:57 PM
A tall, hulking man in his late 70s, William Rehnquist, then the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, crawled down on all fours to say hello to the two little girls who had scurried under the table when he approached at a luncheon. Sally Rider and her partner, Betsy, had tried to teach their two preschool-age daughters how to shake hands with Rehnquist. At the time, Rider was his top aide. Read More
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