PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- House Speaker Gordon Fox pledged on Saturday that the R.I. House of Representatives will vote before the end of January on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.

Fox, a Providence Democrat who’s in the toughest re-election fight of his 20-year career, added specificity to the pledge he made in an interview on WPRI 12′s Newsmakers earlier this year, when he announced he would call a vote in the House on gay marriage during the 2013 session if he got re-elected.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Mainers United have unleashed two new ads in support of marriage equality in the week leading up to the Nov. 6 election.

One ad features the son of a lesbian couple, an honor roll student and athlete, who says he wants his moms to have the same rights to marry that he has.

The other ad features a straight couple, one of whom is a teacher, who explain that they talk to their children about LGBT people, marriage and family values – not schools.

Maine will vote on Question 1 on Tuesday. A “yes” vote will allow gay and lesbian couples in Maine to marry.

WASHINGTON – Brad Pitt, an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights, had given a $100,000 gift to support marriage-equality efforts across the U.S.

The Human Rights Campaign said today that Pitt has agreed to match contributions from HRC members and supporters up to $100,000 in order to direct resources to the marriage campaigns entering their final week in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington state.

Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and outspoken marriage equality advocate, argues against a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Minnesota in a satirical new radio ad for the group for Minnesotans for Equality.