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Fast-growing but still-patchy gay rights create absurdities

Utah gay marriages performed in December have been ruled valid, even as gay marriage remains illegal. Same-sex adoptions were partly legalized and then halted. It's one great hazy state of limbo.

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.

Utah No. 18 to legalize gay marriage; Colorado still unranked

Colorado has also got a lawsuit wending its way through the system, but gay-rights activists have been worried about taking the case before the conservative Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.