Delightful graph of the day: The number of marriage licenses issued in King County. Marriage licenses issued during Marriage Equality event The Stranger has adorable photos to boot. Marriage licenses issued during Marriage Equality event
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Supreme Court Will Hear Gay Marriage
New York Times: The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would enter the national debate over same-sex marriage, agreeing to hear a pair of cases challenging state and federal laws that define marriage to include only unions of a man and a woman. One of the cases, from California, could establish or reject a […]
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Meet the First Local Same-Sex Couple To Get a Marriage License
Major love. Meet Paul Harris & James Griener, the first of hundreds of couples to apply for a marriage license today in Clark County, according to Equality SW Washington, the LGBT group helping coordinate the weekend-long license applications and festivities across the river from Portland. Ironically, Harris is actually been in charge of the county […]
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Two Straight Allies
This one is a royal princess: Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit secretly traveled to India in order to care for infant twins born to the surrogate mother of a gay palace employee unable to get a travel visa, the palace said on Monday. Armed with a diplomatic passport that granted her immediate access, the future queen […]
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Hillary Clinton Will Soon Support Gay Marriage
Politico says: Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains the biggest-name potential Democratic 2016 presidential hopeful who has yet to take a position in support of gay marriage, a source of discussion in Washington this week after the State Department hosted a major LGBT event. Clinton, who was against gay marriage in her 2008 presidential […]
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Today’s Big Gay News Stories
First: yesterday we lived in a world without pictures of Glee‘s Chord Overstreet wearing a jockstrap over his face. Today we live in a new world. Second, also, too, this: The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take up the issue of gay marriage in California as soon as Friday morning. The moment has prompted […]
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Your Guide to Getting Gay Married Next Week
JESSE CHAMPLIN Wahoo! Same-sex marriage will officially become possible in Washington next Thursday, December 6th. Readers lucky enough to reside in America’s Vancouver can apply that day for a marriage license at the Clark County clerk’s office. Portlanders who are still denied equal rights can’t get hitched in Vancouver (well, you can and be recognized […]
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Rick Warren: Homosexuality is Like Arsenic, Consensual Gay Sex Like Punching Someone In the Nose
I hope Rev. Asshole gets to give the invocation at President Obama’s second inauguration. (But it’s okay—Rick’s got gay friends. So he can’t be homophobic.)
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“There’s no way you can have a family with two females or two males.”
Reminds me of some graffiti I saw in London way, way back in the 1980s when the conservative party there was campaigning against “pretend” gay families. “Lesbians Mothers Aren’t PRETENDING.” And there is a way you can have a family with two males or two females, Rev. Franklin “Second Generation Jesus Grifter” Graham: adoption, surrogacy, […]
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It Wasn’t Just the Gay Vote that Was Decisive
Nate Silver: While President Obama’s lopsided support among Latino and other minority voters has been a focus of postelection analysis, the overwhelming support he received from another growing demographic group—Americans who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual—has received much less attention. But the backing Mr. Obama received from gay voters also has a claim on […]
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Support Gay Marriage… Or They’ll Marry Your Girlfriends
I have to say, they put up a compelling case. (Now it’s your turn, lesbians!) CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos
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Christian Right: “How come nobody wikes us? All we wanna do is persecute gay famblies and force women to have wape babies. And nobody wikes us! Wah!”
A delicious, page-one story in Saturday’s NYT: Christian conservatives, for more than two decades a pivotal force in American politics, are grappling with Election Day results that repudiated their influence and suggested that the cultural tide—especially on gay issues—has shifted against them…. It is not as though they did not put up a fight; they […]