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Final Arguments Made in Proposition 8 Trial

SAN FRANCISCO (June 17) -- Attorney Charles Cooper made his final argument that California's ban on same-sex marriages should be upheld as constitutional by telling Chief District Judge Vaughn Walker: "Your honor, you don't have to have evidence for this." The judge appeared mildly surprised. But Cooper's novel argument...

Gay-Marriage Backers Lose Bid for Spot on Calif. Ballot

LOS ANGELES (April 12) -- Gay-rights advocates' push to qualify a November ballot initiative legalizing same-sex marriage in California has fallen short, as it failed to gather the 700,000 petition signatures required by today's deadline. The group Restore Equality 2010 had sought to repeal California's controversial...

Landmark Gay Marriage Trial Kicks Off

SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 11) - The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage got under way Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. The proceedings, which are expected to last two to three weeks,...

Gay Marriage in Argentina Could Escalate Global Fight

(Dec. 30) -- On Monday, two Argentinian men became the first gay couple in Latin America to legally wed. But even as advocates celebrate that milestone, opponents of gay marriage are digging in to blunt the movement's global momentum. The wedding between Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre in Tierra del Fuego,...

Opinion: New Approach Needed to Advance Gay Rights

(Dec. 3) - In the immediate aftermath of the passage of California's Proposition 8 last fall -- where voters amended the state's constitution to recognize only marriages between one man and one woman -- there was a lot of finger-pointing in the gay community, but no bloodletting. Leaders of all the major gay organizations...