All posts tagged "marriage equality"
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New Year Numbers
Maybe you'll be giving up smoking or dropping a few pounds. It's that time of year – the beginning – when the months ahead seem...
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Maryland's Marriage Push
The prize is the same, but the playing field has improved for activists seeking marriage equality in Maryland over the past three years. It was...
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Marriage Going Mainstream
When the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was signed into law in the heat of the 1996 campaign season, support for marriage equality stood at...
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Love, D.C. Style [video]
Last week the first same-sex couples in the District applied for legal marriage licenses – on Tuesday, March 9, they were able to legally sanction...
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''My Rock, My Life, My Love''
”There are no spectators here today,” Rev. David K. North, pastor of Holy Redeemer Metropolitan Community Church in College Park, said. ”All of us have...
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Celebrating Victory
It's in my nature to urge caution when it comes to celebrating our political successes. Long experience has taught us that defeat is sometimes snatched...
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Maryland AG Release Opinion on Marriage UPDATED
Just days before Washington, D.C.’s new marriage equality law is set to go into effect, the attorney general of neighboring Maryland issued a long-awaited opinion...
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A Judicial Outing?
The judge hearing a trial over whether Proposition 8 in California is constitutional ''is himself gay,'' according to a column that ran in this past...
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Historic Harvest
A blizzard began in Washington on Dec. 18, several hours after Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the marriage-equality bill in historic All Souls Unitarian Church. Nearly...
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D.C. Attorney General Backs BOEE on Marriage
D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General filed a brief Friday, Dec. 18, responding to a lawsuit brought last month by Bishop Harry Jackson against the...
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Fenty Signs D.C. Marriage Bill
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty joined about 200 people, including his parents and several prominent LGBT leaders and D.C. councilmembers, at All Souls Unitarian Church, Friday...
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How Marriage Happened
This week, the D.C. City Council voted 11-2 to legalize marriages between same-sex couples. This is a milestone for the LGBT movement for a number...
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Rallying for Marriage
The Campaign for All DC Families and a coalition of other organizations, including D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC),...
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Historic Vote on Marriage Equality
The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 passed its first reading during a City Council legislative meeting Tuesday morning, Dec. 1,...
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Anti-Gay Effort Rejected
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) on Tuesday rejected a proposed voter initiative that sought to define marriage as ''only between a man...
