In an effort to make it a little bit easier to keep up with marriage equality and gay rights news, we've posted selected news stories below. You can view browse past News by Headlines or you can read Love Honor Cherish Press Releases. | 
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california gay marriage campaign kicks off |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 17:09 |
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From Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO - Gay marriage advocates on Monday launched a campaign to try to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban, hoping to become the first U.S. state to convince voters to approve gay people's right to wed.
In the five states where gay marriage is permitted -- Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont -- the right was achieved through court and legislative action.
In every state where the issue has been put before the voters, gay marriage has been rejected. Last year California passed its ban, known as Proposition 8, and voters in Maine overturned a state law allowing same-sex marriages two weeks ago.
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proponents of repealing prop. 8 turn to web to qualify measure |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:54 |
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From The Sacramento Bee
Supporters of legalizing same-sex marriage have launched an online signature-gathering campaign for putting an initiative to repeal Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot.
The initiative, backed by a coalition called Love Honor Cherish, was approved for signature gathering today. Proponents must collect nearly 700,000 valid voter signatures by mid-April 2010 in order to ask voters to overturn Prop. 8, the 2008 ballot measure banning same sex marriage that passed with 52 percent of the vote
Organizers billed the new Web effort, www.SignForEquality.com, as the first time social networking has been used for an all-volunteer drive to qualify an initiative for the ballot. Visitors to the site can download petitions to sign, view volunteer training videos and connect with other volunteers and signature gathering efforts in their area.
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same-sex marriage activists seek repeal of california’s prop. 8 |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:05 |
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From The Christian Science Monitor
LOS ANGELES - The battle is on to repeal California’s Prop. 8 — which activists hope starts a national domino effect in the nearly 30 states that have banned same-sex marriage.
A coalition of 40 groups has taken the first legal step for voters to be able to overturn the measure in November 2010. Thursday, the groups submitted ballot language that will place the measure on the ballot in the state’s next general election. Within weeks they intend to be canvassing the state to gather 700,000 valid signatures needed by April to qualify the measure for the ballot.
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one year after prop 8, push for marriage continues |
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 05:52 |
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From The Bay Area Reporter
One year ago this week, marriage equality advocates in San Francisco and around the country were shocked by the passage of Proposition 8, which eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry in California.
In the weeks after the measure passed with 52 percent of the vote, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to express their agony and anger. Last month a march for LGBT equality in Washington, D.C. drew an estimated 100,000 people.
This week, interfaith services were held around the state in advance of the vote in Maine and to mark the passage of Prop 8.
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same-sex marriage supporters file initiative to repeal prop. 8 |
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From The Sacramento Bee
A coalition of groups supporting same-sex marriage submitted ballot measure language for a proposed initiative to repeal Proposition 8 to the Attorney General's office today.
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