NNPA NEWSWIRE — A growing number of Americans reportedly believe that expanding the court and ridding elections of the Electoral College are keys to preserving democracy...
FLORIDA COURIER — Several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have quietly changed admissions policies to better reflect diversity in gender identification and sexual classification over...
(The Washington Post) – Rowan County, Ky., clerk Kim Davis may have a dream about honoring her religion by refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she is...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Supreme Court term that ended this week will be remembered for the landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, but...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a...
Mark Sherman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law that...
(USA Today) – Why do you oppose same-sex marriage? Indiana University sociologist Brian Powell posed this question to hundreds of people across the nation as part of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is disputing a longtime aide’s view that Obama feigned opposition to gay marriage, compromising his true beliefs out...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas suggested Thursday that the Supreme Court was divided over whether to hear the gay marriage cases...
DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A month after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on gay marriage, the issue is headed its way...
[Los Angeles Times] Last year’s Proposition 8 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court changed the lives of many same-sex couples and their families in California for the better. But the...
[Politico] Vice President Joe Biden really did get ahead of President Barack Obama on accepting gay marriage in 2012 — and the White House really wasn’t...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge who ordered Ohio to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states...
[Delaware Online] NEW YORK — The dispute among United Methodists over recognition of same-sex couples has lapsed into a doctrinal donnybrook, pitting clergy who are presiding at...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Those who read me regularly know that I have been extremely critical of the Obama presidency; but it has always...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The dispute over gay marriage between Dick Cheney’s daughters is shining a bright light on the Republican Party’s broader...
LEBANON, Pa., Oct. 1 (UPI) — A Methodist pastor in Pennsylvania will stand trial by church elders for officiating his gay son’s marriage to another man,...
[NESN] Sunday night marked a milestone for gay rights, as Robbie Rogers made his debut with the L.A. Galaxy, becoming the first recognized openly gay athlete...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, I had to make one of the most difficult announcements of my life—I told my family that I...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist You can call it the “bandwagon effect,” or “political opportunism,” or, the “wake-up-call effect,” or, less cynically, an old American...
by Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent Rev. Amos Brown supports same-sex marriage. Rev. Anthony Evans opposes same-sex marriage. WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of...
[The Huffington Post] A New York City-based fifth grader’s pro-gay marriage speech will never be heard by his classmates after his school’s principal deemed it inappropriate....
[Politico] It was bound to happen: First, there was the Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, who turned heads in 2008 with her seductive YouTube videos in praise...