Sen. Hillary Clinton, addressing a gathering of LGBT organizations Thursday, said that she “has certainly evolved” on gay issues, Gay City News reported. Clinton spoke following Wednesday’s New Jersey supreme court ruling that same-sex couples are entitled to the same marriage rights as heterosexuals. She also confirmed support for gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer, a strong [...]
President Bush said the ”sacred institution” of marriage between a man and a woman must be defended against what he called activist court rulings. Bush briefly brought up the topic, unprompted, while raising money in Des Moines, Iowa, for a Republican congressional candidate, a day after the New Jersey supreme court decided that same-sex couples [...]
New Jersey could become the nation’s gay wedding chapel should the state’s highest court rule in favor of same-sex marriages, adversaries on the issue agree. The New Jersey Supreme Court is poised to release its highly anticipated decision Wednesday in a case brought by seven gay couples who say the state constitution allows them to [...]
Comedian Joan Rivers has a lot of gay in her future. According to Liz Smith’s column in the New York Post, Rivers is planning a series for Bravo in which she and her gay friends will sit around and chat. The program, titled Straight Talk, was called “a gay and lesbian version of The View” [...]
A gay Colorado man’s fight for his late partner’s estate may continue, the Colorado court of appeals ruled on Thursday. Randall Rex has argued that a typed letter in a birthday card given to him by his late partner qualifies as a will, according to the Associated Press. The court ruling revives Rex’s claim to [...]
Studds married Dean Hara in 2004 after gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts. But Hara will not be eligible to receive any portion of Studds’ estimated $114,337 annual pension because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act bars the federal government from recognizing Studds’ marriage. Peter Graves, a spokesman for the Office of Personnel Management, which [...]
Conservative religious and political leaders rallied in Boston on Sunday in opposition to same-sex marriage, arguing that their rights to religious expression are being threatened. The event, being broadcast to churches nationally, is part of a larger effort to energize conservative voters before the November 7 congressional elections. ”Here in Massachusetts, activist judges struck a [...]
Support for constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage is weak in three of the eight states that will vote on them this November, and in one—Colorado—a competing measure to establish domestic partnerships for same-sex couples is currently backed by a majority of voters. The growing sense that key victories will be had this Election Day is [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by a California gay couple whose quest for a marriage license was rejected by a federal appeals court earlier this year. Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer have been in court since the Orange County clerk rejected their marriage license applications in 2004, The Orange [...]
A lesbian couple from Rhode Island who won the right to marry in Massachusetts held their ceremony Sunday. After being denied a marriage license in Massachusetts, Wendy Becker and Mary Norton challenged a 1913 state law that prohibits out-of-state residents from marrying if the union would not be permitted in their home state. They argued [...]