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Fed appeals court moves same-sex marriage ahead another step

Not until contemporary times have laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing gay men and women been felled... As the district court eloquently explained, 'it is not the Constitution that has changed, but the knowledge of what it means to be gay or lesbian.’”

Gay marriage in Denver: What happened, what’s happening this month at...

  DENVER-- A panel of three judges at the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals here last week grilled lawyers presenting arguments in a Utah...

American lovers, risk takers, hummus makers

Derek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity are gay and in love and not married. They want to be married, and they could have been married, except it wouldn’t have been exactly right. Kitchen and Sbeity like to do things right.

Here come the grooms: Making history in order to get hitched

From that first spark, Moudi and I have known we wanted to get married. Challenging Utah’s ban on marriage equality in the lawsuit filed in March 2013 was our first step toward walking down the aisle.