The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the United State’s of America’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, today endorsed marriage equality at an meeting on Saturday, 19 May 2012. The organization had originally been founded in 1909 to improve the lives of the country’s African ( Read more... )

Saw this on reddit... It's the Pinterest of 14 year old Kenneth Weisuhn, an Iowa teen who recently committed suicide after being bullied. http://pinterest.com/15kweishuhn/when-i-get-married/

Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (the guy who wrote Milk) wrote a play called "8" based on the transcripts from the Perry v Schwarzenegger trial to overturn Proposition 8 in California. This past Saturday, a bunch of celebrities (Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Jane Lynch, Jamie Lee Curtis, etc) did a reading of it, and it was ( Read more... )

The unconstitutionality of Prop 8 has been upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In Minnesota, there is a push for a constitutional ban on gay marriage. An anti-gay state legislator - the freaking Majority Leader - has been campaigning for it. Now it's revealed that she's been engaging in an extra-marital affair ( Read more... )

1. During a stop in Manchester, New Hampshire this morning Mitt Romney suggested to 63-year-old gay veteran Bob Garon that he would support the repeal of the state’s marriage equality law, despite previously claiming that marriage is the purview of the states ( Read more... )

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NPR has an interesting piece on the most recent census figures on gay couples in the United States. 646,464 gay couples report living together, which is an 80% increase since the 2000 Census ( Read more... )

...but looking through recent entries says no. *crosses fingers*

Anyway, two amusing articles on gay marriage from Cracked:

6 Pro-Gay Marriage Arguments for Fighting With Crazy PeopleBasis of the article is that because most anti-gay arguments are illogical and crazy, the only way to fight them is that your own arguments must make even less sense ( Read more... )