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New York Allows Same-Sex Conjugal Visits in State Prisons

New York inmates who are in same-sex marriages or civil unions are being allowed conjugal visits with their spouses or partners. The state officially announced the change in policy last week, making New York one of the few states to grant the private visits for gay and lesbian inmates in legally recognized same-sex...

Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock. Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of...

Montana Judge Rejects Gay Couple Rights Suit

HELENA, Mont. -- A Montana judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit that sought to extend to gay couples the same legal protections as married couples, saying in his decision that he can't grant the benefits partly because of the state's voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Last...

Speaker Launches Effort to Defend Gay Marriage Ban

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner said Friday the House may go to court to defend the federal law against gay marriage, which President Barack Obama's administration has concluded is unconstitutional. Boehner said he would convene a group of bipartisan congressional leaders that has the authority to instruct the...

Hawaii's Governor Signs Civil Unions Into Law

HONOLULU -- Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed same-sex civil unions into law Wednesday, calling it "a triumph for everyone" that gay and lesbian couples will have the same state rights as married partners. Civil unions in the Rainbow State would start Jan. 1, 2012, making Hawaii the seventh state to permit civil unions...

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Why Facebook's New Millionaires May Be Headed For Divorce

The idea that Facebook "causes" divorce has been widely reported, with fear-mongering research decrying that 20 percent of splits in the United States -- and roughly 33 percent in the United Kingdom -- involve the social network.

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Nicole Brittingham Furlonge: On The 'Public' Role Of Love

This notion of love is what Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the love that does justice," a love that intentionally supports and cultivates personal and systemic change towards equality, a love that is threatened as long as injustice thrives.

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Constitution Check: If DOMA Falls, Must States Opposing Gay Marriages Accept Them?

"In allowing one state to hold the federal government, and potentially other states, hostage to redefine marriage, the First Circuit [Court] attempts a bridge too far. Under this rationale, if just one state decided to accept polygamy, the federal government and perhaps other states would be forced to accept it, too." -

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Gay Or Straight, More Companies Offer Health Benefits To Domestic Partners

Her employer-sponsored health insurance plan had her boyfriend listed as a woman.

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Marriage And Happiness: Does A Spouse Equal Lifelong Contentment?

One of the study's researchers says their findings suggest "that people on average are happier than they would have been if they didn't get married."

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06/02/12 Truthdiggers of the Week: Judges of the 1st U.S.... Source: Truthdig In an August 1996 letter , President Bill Clinton wrote that raising the issue of gay marriage was "divisive and unnecessary."
06/02/12 Nearly 5,000 Same-Sex Civil Unions in First Year Source: Burr Ridge Patch - Burr Ridge IL As the gay and lesbian community in Illinois celebrates the first anniversary of a state law that allows civil unions, two lawsuits filed in Illinois challenge another state law that does not allow same-sex marriage.
06/02/12 Man Divorces Wife: Husband says 550 Cats Keep Stealing... Source: The Post Chronicle - Denville NJ An Israeli man says he wants to divorce his wife because she refuses to part with her 550 cats.
06/02/12 Issues about getting civil union benefits reported Source: Daily Chronicle Online - Dekalb IL An advocacy group says many same-sex Illinois couples in civil unions have troubles filing joint taxes, getting health benefits for their partners and adopting.
06/02/12 Woman told she can keep Â£1.5m five-bedroom home in... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK The bitter divorce of a property tycoon from his wife of 33 years culminated in a judicial finding that he forged her signature on a mortgage application.