When it comes to an issue as controversial as same-sex marriage can be, adults can have some pretty set opinions. But Sarah Crank, a home-schooled 14-year-old from Bowie, took the chance this week to let a Maryland Senate committee know what she thought about the state's renewed push for marriage equality. more ›

Frustrated by the way the federal government treats the District of Columbia, and wondering what the Obama Administration is doing about it? Well, here's your chance to ask -- Michael Blake, White House Director of African American & Minority Business Outreach in the Office of Public Engagement, will appear at a forum on Wednesday night at All Souls Church in Ward 1 where residents can "voice [their] concerns to the White House directly and have [their] questions answered." more ›

You know, after the highest court in the land hands you yet another defeat, you think you'd shake hands and admit that maybe, just maybe, you'd lost this one battle. But that's not the custom of opponents of same-sex marriage in the District, who took this week's Supreme Court decision not to hear an appeal on marriage equality as a, well, declaration of war. more ›

GLAA Forum tips us off to what may well be the must-see summer tour of 2010 -- the National Organization for Marriage's Summer for Marriage Tour 2010. more ›

Never lose your cool. That seems to be the mantra under which directors Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet operated in the making of this documentary. The film contains enough inflammatory information -- about the efforts of the Mormon Church to ban gay marriage in California -- to send any supporter of marriage equality into a rage. To their credit, the filmmakers present their story in a calm, even manner, wisely allowing the passions of their subjects to carry the emotional weight of the film. more ›

Bishop Harry Jackson has lost pretty much every battle related to marriage equality in the District, but he's not giving up. more ›

Even though it's been two months now that same-sex couples in the District can legally marry and even longer since the last time a court ruled against a proposed ballot measure on the practice, opponents of marriage equality haven't given up the fight. more ›

Ahhhh. With D.C.'s same-sex marriage law now before Congress for a cursory 30-day review, we can all sit back and wait for the happy couples to exchange vows, right? Maybe not so much. more ›

Although it now appears California's Proposition 8 will pass by a slim margin - our sister site LAist reports a 4.2 percent difference in votes - opponents of the measure aren't throwing in the towel yet. A statement on the No On Prop 8 web site says, "we expect that there are more than 3 million and possibly as many as 4 million absentee and provisional ballots yet to be counted." We reported in September that D.C. could see a marriage equality bill early next year; a follow up report indicated it may be as soon as early January. LGBT activists believed at the time that a defeat of Prop 8 would boost D.C.'s chances of passing a same-sex marriage bill. Despite Prop 8 passing, other factors that could give a D.C. bill a fighting chance fell into place last night: the election of Sen. Barack Obama as President, and the expansion of the Democrats' majority in Congress. more ›

On Tuesday, the D.C. Council agreed unanimously that retirement benefits should be extended to domestic partners of the city’s retired police officers and firefighters. The move brings marriage equality in the District a step closer to fruition, according to the Examiner. more ›