HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. – The tribal council of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians has voted 5-4 to approve marriage equality for tribal members.

Tribal chairman Dexter McNamara could veto the measure, which would then require a 7-2 vote to overrule the veto.

If the measure gets final approval, the tribe would join the Coquille tribe in Oregon and the Suquamish tribe in Washington state to allow same-sex marriage on their reservations.

MADRID, Spain — Spain’s interior minister on Sunday waded into the ongoing debate over same-sex marriage, declaring that “the survival of the species” was at stake.

WARSAW, Poland – Former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa has been accused of homophobia after saying that gay MPs should sit in the back of Parliament.

His startling remarks, made during a discussion on same-sex civil unions, immediately conjured images of Rosa Parks being ordered to sit at the back of the bus in Alabama.

When playwright Peter Mercurio answered the phone 12 years ago, he probably didn't realize the call would change his life.

On an August night in 2000, Mercurio received a phone call from his partner, David Stewart, who was at the Eighth Avenue A/C/E subway stop in New York City, recounts Mercurio in "We Found Our Son in the Subway," an op-ed for The New York Times.