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The Rowan County, Ky., clerk will remain in jail until she agrees to sign, and allows her staff to issue, marriage licenses to all eligible couples, regardless of gender.

As oral arguments for and against marriage equality conclude, we're getting our first look at what took place at the nation's high court.

U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade has once again ruled in favor of equality — ordering probate judges throughout Alabama to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Even if you've already gone to the polls to cast your ballot (you're going to vote...right?!) there's so much going on in today's midterm election. Here's our picks for the races to watch.

The couple's registration of their New York marriage license doesn't mean Mississippi will recognize their union, but it's part of a push for marriage equality in Southern states.

Why this Kaitlyn Hunt saga scares the crap out of me.

The lesbian military couple who won NüVo Condom's contest to receive an all-expenses-paid dream wedding picked up the paperwork to formalize their commitment in New York City today.

In honor of lesbian widow Edie Windsor's case challenging the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which comes before the Supreme Court today, we thought we'd round up some of our favorite lesbian weddings from recent years.

It's been a big year for out women in the news, from the election of the first out U.S. Senator — who just happens to be a lesbian from Wisconsin — to the House of Representatives' first bisexual member, or Oregon's first out lesbian Speaker of the House.

Retired Air Force Major Margaret Witt, a key voice in the fight to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," wed her longtime partner Laurie Johnson during a small ceremony at Grande Ronde Cellars in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday. The couple was the first to get their marriage license at the Spokane County Courthouse just before 8:30 a.m. on December 6. Witt's attorney in her successful federal court challenge to her dismissal under DADT, Jim Lobsenz, presided over the ceremony.

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. 

A judge gave "former" lesbian, Lisa Miller, 30 days to appear in court with her 7-year-old daughter or face possible arrest. Miller is at the center of a long-running custody dispute after she refused to transfer custody of her daughter, Isabelle, to her former partner, Janet Jenkins. Jenkins held up pictures of her daughter outside the courthouse.

Writer and lesbian activist reflects on her post Prop 8 experience in Richmond, Virginia. 'Some time has passed.I can finally come crawling out of my hole and stop sulking.  Ok, so the California supreme court upheld Prop 8 by 6 to 1.  Richmond’s protest made the decision even more depressing.  

It's the year in lesbian gossip including plenty of The L Word, Ellen Degeneres' and Portia's wedding, Tina Fey's Palin Mania, South of Nowhere, Jodie Foster, Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson,  Wanda Sykes coming out, Ellen Page hugging woman with her legs, Sara Ramirez and Brooke Smith and more...