Welcome to the Gay Marriage Watch daily summary of the latest marriage equality news, with links to posted articles.  To see today’s individual stories, use the links below: NOM Defector Gives Up on Marriage Equality Work (Queerty) For five years Louis Marinelli helped the National Organization for Marriage fight against LGBT rights. Then in April [...]

GAY  USA the Movie , will hold its premiere of the trailer as a benefit, at Jasons,  Greenbrae, CA : 08/31, Benefit Trailer : GAY USA the Movie, Jason’s, 300 Drakes Landing , 6 PM. Meet Kristina Lapinski the filmmaker at the first screening of the preview to GAY USA the Movie, due for release [...]

Authored by Assemblymember Atkins, AB 887 will strengthen protections based on gender identity and gender expression Sacramento – Today, the California State Senate passed the Gender Nondiscrimination Act (AB 887) in a vote of 25-13. The bill is authored by Assemblymember Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and is sponsored by Equality California, Transgender Law Center, and [...]

British Foreign Secretary urged to lobby host government, Australia; Commonwealth has never discussed LGBT human rights ; Most Commonwealth countries still criminalize homosexuality:- The Commonwealth association of nations is being urged to discuss the decriminalisation of homosexuality and other LGBT human rights issues at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which is being held [...]

On Monday August 29th at 9:00am gay rights activist, Lt. Dan Choi will face federal charges for protesting “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” at the White House. He faces 6 months in prison or a $5,000 fine for an obscure infraction of Parks and Wildlife federal regulations. On November 14, 2010 Choi and 12 others including [...]

Today at 9 a.m. PT in San Francisco, the court hearing about allowing the public to see video of the historic Prop. 8 trial begins. AFER’s team will be providing live updates from the courthouse on Twitter and Facebook.  Please be sure to follow and repost the updates. Despite the fact that the Prop. 8 [...]

We the LGBT Community and all America have the right to the Prop. 8 Tapes: Speaking to the weakness of the Prop 8 Proponent’s case, and the moving stories of witnesses for the right to marry a same-sex partner in California, Shannon Minter, Esq., Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, NCLR and [...]

Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend  has received  information (ahead)  from  “a trusted source in a position to know the details, that Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization in the country, will announce his departure next Tuesday.” Gay U.S.A. Blog has not [...]

Equality California Denounces Efforts by Anti-Equality Groups to Keep Hearing on the Release of Prop 8 Trial Tapes Hidden from Public View San Francisco- On Monday Federal District Judge James Ware will hear arguments on whether to release video tapes recorded during Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case that struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional in [...]

Welcome to the Gay Marriage Watch daily summary of the latest marriage equality news, presented by Purple Unions with links to posted articles. MD: O’Malley Discusses Support for Marriage Equality (Towleroad.com) Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley spoke this morning about the a marriage equality bill in his state which he intends to sponsor in the next [...]