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Bill and Melinda Gates donate additional $500,000 to Washington marriage equality campaign

LGBTQ Nation Staff Reports
October 24th, 2012

Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates, and his wife Melinda, have donated an additional $500,000 to the campaign to uphold Washington's state's marriage equality law.

The announcement Tuesday comes from Washington United for Marriage, the broad coalition working to approve Referendum 74, the November ballot initiative that will ask voters to approve or reject the same-sex marriage law passed in the legislature and signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire earlier this year.

VIDEO: SAME to celebrate marriage equality victories at Valentine's Day meeting

SDGLN Staff
February 14th, 2012

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME) will celebrate recent victories in the fight for marriage equality at its general membership meeting on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 6:30 pm.

Rick Santorum to visit Washington state on day the governor signs marriage equality bill

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
February 13th, 2012

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is planning to do his best to upstage Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on the day she signs into law the bill that legalizes marriage equality in the state.

Santorum, who is unashamed of his homophobia, plans to meet with foes of marriage equality in the state capital of Olympia as well as in Tacoma. The anti-gay former Senator from Pennsylvania, who was whomped during his last re-election campaign, has scheduled at 7 pm campaign rally at the Washington Historical Museum in Tacoma.

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