The ultimate marriage equality civil rights frontier is the gay and lesbian divorce rights issue – as same-sex couples have less divorce rights than they do the right to marry!  In seeking a divorce one needs to qualify under the particular divorce residential statutes of the state one lives in and many married couples do [...]

Monday, December 19, 2011 – 05:36 PM Same-sex marriages from New York are to be recognised as Irish civil partnerships, following an order today from Justice Minister Alan Shatter. “This is excellent news for those Irish people in New York who have married since the law was enacted there this July,” said chairperson of the [...]

“Tony West Assistant Attorney General  from the  U.S. Department of Justice notes one of the greatest moments in his career was when Karen Golinski thanked him for the DOJ position in her case.” On Friday in San Francisco, the Justice Department made its first court appearance in a lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act [...]

New York/San Francisco • December 15, 2011 ― Marriage Equality USA® (MEUSA™) and Marriage Equality New York (MENY)  announced today that they have formally agreed to merge, “bringing together two of the strongest forces in this movement, ” according to the press release. MENY will continue as a fully functioning chapter within MEUSA™. “Today is [...]

Legendary New York mayor Ed Koch has announced he is endorsing  openly lesbian City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as the next Mayor of New York. The election will be in 2013. The Koch backing could prove extremely important for the Jewish vote for Quinn, the granddaughter of an Irish Titanic survivor, who is the first [...]

In an email to supporters, Joe Saunders,  State Field Director for Equality Florida is shouting victory as  Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Commission voted unanimously to create Central Florida’s first domestic partnership registry! The registry, which takes effect January 12th, will extend vital legal protections to lesbian and gay families in Florida. [...]

by Melanie Nathan SAN FRANCISCO; December 09, 2011;  Today was likely the last hearing before the Ninth Circuit issues a ruling on the U.S. District Court’s decision that struck down Prop. 8, the ballot measure that sought to ban same-sex marriage in California. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument about whether the [...]

Please attend the lunch time rally and show support for AFER and the Prop 8 Plaintiffs. Editor, December 05, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO- On Thursday, December 8, a three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on the efforts to release video of the Prop. 8 trial as well as the [...]