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The American Bar Association (ABA) has now officially endorsed the recommendation in urging state, territorial and tribal governments to eliminate all of the legal barriers to civil marriages between same-sex couples otherwise eligible to marry.

A federal judge declared that Kentucky's refusal to recognize legal out-of-state same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, but stopped short of establishing marriage equality in the state.

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Mary E. Rowland was sworn in this week, becoming one of just a few openly LGBT federal judges in the nation.

After calling the plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 case immediately after the Supreme Court struck down the California law banning marriage equality, President Obama issued a lengthy statement celebrating today's landmark victories at the Supreme Court.

The decision is being hailed by activists as a major milestone in the fight for marriage nationwide.

Two lesbian couples in Virginia have filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's constitutional and statutory prohibitions on same-sex marriages and recognizing such unions performed outside of the state.

The ruling is on hold until March 9, unless a higher court extends the stay.

BREAKING: The 2004 law barring same-sex couples in Michigan from marrying has been struck down by a federal judge.

President Barack Obama was in office less than 24 hours when the White House website posted a litany of items the Obama administration intends to address in a move toward equality for gay people.

Pat Robertson has come up with a new theory as to why liberals support abortion rights — it’s because they want to put lesbians and straight women on “a level playing field.” On a recent episode of The 700 Club, discussing the battle over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, Robertson says President Obama supports the organization because of what the antigay minister calls the Left’s “culture of death.” Then Robertson says to cohost Terry Meeuwsen, “If a woman is a lesbian, what advantage does she have over a married woman? Or what deficiency does she have?”

In a highly anticipated decision with potentially far-reaching implications in the national battle over gay marriage, a federal judge has struck down California's Proposition 8. 

Prepare for all hell to break loose on the right now that Fox News is reporting that Democrats are trying to broaden immigration reform with a provision in immigration legislation that would allow gay and lesbian American citizens a basic right -- to live with and love their foreign-born same-sex partners in the United States. At a news conference Thursday, Democratic Reps. Jerrold Nadler of New York, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and Mike Honda of Californian urged Congress to pass the Uniting American Families Act as one piece of a comprehensive immigration reform package.

Children raised by same-sex couples dominated the federal trial over Proposition 8 on Friday as the measure's proponents attacked studies that showed children of lesbians and gays are just as well-adjusted. On the fifth day of the trial in San Francisco, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker heard testimony from Michael Lamb, a professor and author Helen Zia. 

The Supreme Court has unanimously decided to further delay lifting Virginia's marriage ban.

On the red carpet for a Kennedy Center event in her honor, Ellen DeGeneres told reporters that women should be "very, very scared" of a Mitt Romney presidency.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear four marriage equality cases from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld marriage bans in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee.