“American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert on Wednesday admitted he got carried away during his racy American Music Awards performance, as furor over his singing and dancing stoked a wider controversy in the U.S. gay community. More than 14 million people watched the gay, glam rocker close the live AMA telecast on Sunday with a performance [...]
CBS’s The Early Show, which added Adam Lambert to its Wednesday program after ABC’s Good Morning America canceled the singer’s appearance, has nevertheless found itself in hot water for showing a clip of Lambert’s American Music Awards performance in which his kiss with a male keyboardist was intentionally blurred out. Moments later, The Early Show [...]
Peter Vidala, 24, says he was unjustly fired after telling another employee he thought her impending marriage to another woman was wrong. A manager at a Massachusetts retail store claims he was unjustly fired after he told a colleague he thought her impending marriage to another woman was wrong. Peter Vadala, 24, told FoxNews.com he [...]
The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment. The Utah-based church’s support ahead of Tuesday night’s vote came despite its steadfast opposition to gay marriage, reflected in the [...]
Gay rights activists are looking to a possible vote to legalize same-sex marriage in New York State on Tuesday as a way to drive a national campaign that opponents say has lost momentum. Five U.S. states have already legalized gay marriage — Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont — but earlier this month voters [...]
Gay rights advocates across the country are regrouping after a crushing defeat at the ballot box in Maine, pledging to continue their state-by-state effort to promote marriage equality and to turn their attention to a federal court case in California. On Tuesday, Maine became the 31st state to block same-sex marriage through a public referendum. [...]
Voters in Maine Tuesday voted by a narrow margin to repeal the state’s recently approved marriage equality law. There will, no doubt, be much analysis of why voters chose to repeal the law in Maine, but even before the voting booths had opened Tuesday, there were critics of President Obama’s lack of effort around the [...]
Maine residents will decide Tuesday whether to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage, an effort that has succeeded in every state where it has been put before voters. Public opinion surveys in Maine show a dead heat on Question 1, which would cancel the marriage statute that passed the legislature in May and was signed [...]