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Black pastor reflects on marriage equality success in Maryland

Pastor Joseph Tolton, one of the founders of NoWedge 2012 ‘explains why marriage equality is a victory for same-sex couples and our community’ in a post-election article for EBONY. GLAAD has worked with various faith leaders of this campaign, watching the birth of new conversations.

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COMMENTARY: The lost souls of the Republican Party

The Republican Party has lost its heart and soul. The party of Abraham Lincoln, founded in the mid-1850s as a political movement united against slavery, has morphed in the 21st century into the party of hate and the party of no.

The party that was primarily comprised of Northerners and rejected by pro-slavery white Southerners is now dominated by white Southerners. The party that was once embraced by freed slaves is now overwhelmingly void of people of color, including African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and immigrants.

BREAKING NEWS! Minnesota voters refuse to ban same-sex marriage

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Supporters of marriage equality made it a clean sweep on Tuesday night when Minnesota voters narrowly rejected a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Maine, Maryland and Washington state voters all approved same-sex marriage at the ballot box.

The measure needed 50% of all voters to be approved, according to state law.

The Roman Catholic Church, led by the homophobic Archbishop John Nienstedt from the Twin Cities, donated millions of dollars and volunteered to fight the Proposition 32 measure sponsored by Minnesota for Marriage, an anti-gay group.

BREAKING NEWS! Voters in Washington state approve marriage for gay and lesbian couples

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Voters in the state of Washington joined Maine and Maryland in approving marriage equality on Tuesday night.

About 52% of voters, according to preliminary results, supported the state legislature and Gov. Chris Gregoire, who signed the same-sex marriage bill into law on Feb. 13.

Anti-gay figures brought Referendum 74 to voters, who rejected it by a sizable margin.

BREAKING NEWS! Maine voters approve marriage equality

PORTLAND, Maine – Marriage equality wins in Maine.

Voters in Maine on Tuesday set history on Tuesday by becoming the first state to approve a referendum to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, according to Mainers United For Marriage.

The group tweeted:

VICTORY: Maine voters approve the freedom to marry! For the first time, marriage wins at the ballot.

Wisconsin elects Tammy Baldwin, sets history as first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate

MADISON, Wisc. – Tammy Baldwin defeated former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson on Tuesday to become the first openly gay Senator in history of the United States, according to preliminary results.

Baldwin’s monumental victory helps the Democrats to keep control of the Senate and gives the LGBT community its most visible political icon.

Spain's high court upholds marriage-equality law

MADRID -- The Constitutional Court, Spain's highest legal authority, today voted 8-3 against a bid to overturn the nation's marriage-equality law.

In 2005, Spain's Parliament approved the marriage law when the government was controlled by the Socialists. The Popular Party, which opposed the law, took power in Spain last year and asked the Constitutional Court to declare the law unconstitutional.

Will election results make it be a banner day for marriage equality?

Final polls in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington show that marriage equality is poised to make history today.

Voters across America have never approved marriage equality at the ballot box. But as Americans have grown increasingly supportive of gay and lesbian couples marrying, 2012 appears to be the year of sea change.

Obama responds to 10-year-old's heartfelt letter about her dads

Tomorrow, Election Day, we have an extraordinarily important decision to make. Many look at the economy and wish the recovery were happening more rapidly. Some would like to see a larger return on their stocks. And a select few look at their families and hope each day for the same protections that almost every other family in the country currently has.

Rhode Island House may vote on marriage equality in January

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.

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