House Democratic Leader Pelosi endorses freedom to marry plank in 2012 platform
Posted on Feb 15, 2012 at 07:50 am
Just two days after launching our Democrats Say I Do campaign calling on the Democratic Party to adopt a plank in support of the freedom to marry, House Leader Nancy Pelosi endorsed the proposed plank.
President Obama opposes NC’s anti-gay amendment
Posted on Sep 14, 2011 at 09:28 am
In a statement released yesterday after the NC Senate passed an anti-gay constitutional amendment, President Barack Obama reiterated his opposition to laws that discriminate against gay and lesbian couples.
DOMA Hearing Only Two Days Away
Posted on Jul 18, 2011 at 11:36 am
This Wednesday, the first-ever congressional hearings on repealing the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) will occur, featuring a few witnesses who we are already familiar with.
Natalie Portman and Fiancé Say, “I Do” to the Freedom to Marry
Posted on Jun 06, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Today, Oscar-wining actor Natalie Portman and her fiancé Benjamin Millepied joined the over 100,000 supporters of Freedom to Marry’s Say, “I Do” campaign, urging President Obama to support the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples.
VIDEO: Happy Anniversary! It’s One Year Since the First Gay Couples Got Married in D.C.
Posted on Mar 09, 2011 at 11:35 am
The first same-sex couples begin to legally marry in the District of Columbia one year ago today. Since then, thousands of same-sex couples have gotten marriage licenses in D.C.
Carl and Darin: Looking forward to the memory
Posted on Feb 04, 2011 at 03:56 pm
Darin Henderson and Carl Cox aren't the only ones who are excited about their upcoming wedding day. And we're not talking about their mothers either, who are over the moon about it. With votes from thousands of strangers, the couple from DC managed to win a $100,000 contest to pay for their whole wedding.
Eric Hartley: Still waiting for ‘the real thing’
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 11:30 am
While many gay or lesbian couples from Maryland got married in Washington, D.C., after that city legalized same-sex marriage last year, Barry Kessler and David Hankey have waited. The Arnold couple was a bit wary of a D.C. marriage. The Maryland attorney general says the state can recognize out-of-state marriages, but what if it didn't for some reason?
But the real reason they're waiting is less legal and more profound: They want "the real thing," as Hankey put it.
Freedom to Marry’s Sean Eldridge in Maryland: ‘The time to pass this legislation is now’
Posted on Jan 25, 2011 at 11:30 am
Remarks by Sean Eldridge, Political Director of Freedom to Marry, at today's press conference Maryland.
Freedom to Marry Calls on Maryland Legislature to Pass Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Act
Posted on Jan 25, 2011 at 10:00 am
With the Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act introduced today in the Maryland State Legislature, Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide, calls for its swift approval.
Texas couple fights newspaper that rejected their wedding announcement
Posted on Jan 24, 2011 at 05:00 pm
Dallas couple Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup are fighting for acknowledgment in the city's major newspaper, "The Dallas Morning News". After being legally married in Washington, D.C. in December, they submitted a paid marriage announcement to their local paper.
Innocuous, right? Not according to the paper, which denied their request on the grounds that their marriage is invalid in their home state of Texas.