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Same-sex marriage supporters gathered outside the San Francisco federal courthouse Wednesday as U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker prepared for the Proposition 8 case closing arguments.

Celebrities react to Judge Walker's brave decision to overturn that hateful anti-gay marriage legislation Prop 8 in California. Here are Sam Ronson, Cynthia Nixon, Lady Gaga, Sophia Bush, Wilson Cruz, Kim Kardashian and more weighing in on the decision to allow California's lesbian and gay couples to marry.

A small group of lesbian and gay marriage supporters rallied outside the premiere of  8: The Mormon Proposition at the Sundance Film Festival Sunday. The documentary details the involvement of the Church of Latter Day Saints in the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Directed by Reed Cowan and narrated by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.

Supporters of an effort to repeal Proposition 8 are petitioning for a return to the ballot next year.

L.A. Restaurant Manager Who Donated to Prop. 8 Resigns The Proposition 8 fallout continues: Marjorie Christofferson, a beleaguered manager of El Coyote, a Los Angeles restaurant popular with gays and lesbians, has quit after she came under fire for donating $100 to support the proposition.

In a stunning and widely unexpected loss gay marriage proponents, a federal judge on Wednesday upheld California's Proposition 8 as constitutional.

California Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman said that, if elected, she would defend Proposition 8, which prohibits marriage equality in the state, by appealing a federal judge’s ruling that declared the proposition unconstitutional.

Without explanation, the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit has granted a stay in the Proposition 8 case, yet again putting off marriage rights for same-sex couples seeking to wed in California. Though the three-judge panel granted Prop. 8 supporters the stay it had Proposition 8 supporters a stay in the case but grant expedited arguments, scheduled for the week of December 6.

The ladies of Hot in Cleveland, sans Betty White, posed for the NoH8 campaign, which raises money to fight California's antigay Proposition 8.

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. 

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. 

Out MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow had plenty to say in response to the Supreme Court's hearing on Tuesday of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the federal case challenging California's Proposition 8.

Arguably the most famous face of gay marriage in California or otherwise, Ellen Degeneres released a statement expressing her disappointment in the state passing Proposition 8, which will re-ban same-sex marriage. Just a few weeks before the election, during which Californians would vote to decide the fate of gay marriage either voting for Prop. 8 and banning gay marriage or voting ‘No on 8,’ Degeneres ponied up $100,000 to produce her own PSA to urge voters to vote down the proposition.

Cheers went up throughout San Francisco City Hall when Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, plaintiffs in the case that brought down California’s Proposition 8, were married there today.

Rachel Maddow kicked off her show Monday night by breaking down the facts on this week's hearings in the Supreme Court challenging the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8.

Congressional conservatives denounced the overturn of Proposition 8 and discussed their new resolution against the ruling. According to Politico, Reps. Lamar Smith of Texas, Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Steve King of Iowa, and John Fleming of Louisiana spoke with reporters Tuesday about the Prop. 8 ruling.

The nation is anxiously awaiting the decision by the California Supreme Court on Proposition 8, the November ballot measure passed by voters banning same-sex marriage. The court's decision will be announced Tuesday either upholding the gay marriage ban, or ruling Prop 8 unconstitutional and restoring marriage equality to Californians. 

As the Supreme Court today considers whether to invalidate California's Proposition 8, which revoked marriage equality in 2008, the state's Attorney General is clear about why she refused to defend the voter-approved initiative in court.

Chuck Woolery is not looking for a Love Connection with gay people. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Thursday, the former game show host said that the U.S. Court of Appeals was wrong to find Proposition 8 unconstitutional.