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President Obama’s evolution on marriage equality continues, as he discusses in an interview with the New Yorker. The New Yorker reports: Obama opposed marriage equality until May of 2012. He told me that he now believes the Constitution requires all states to allow same-sex marriage, an argument that his Administration has not yet made before […]
Welcome to the new Marriage Equality Watch! We started life on January 1st, 2008 as Gay Marriage Watch. At the time, the term “gay marriage” was the most-used term to describe marriage between a couple of the same gender. The phrase “marriage equality” existed at the time – I just checked our blog, and we
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WE NEVER thought we’d see marriage equality come to Wyoming in our lifetime. But in a wave of judicial rulings allowing same-sex couples to marry across the country, this week a federal court ruling granted our neighbors the opportunity to make history at the altar. The lives and rights of LGBT people in the “Equality
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Join hundreds of walkers & runners at Woodward Park to raise awareness & community support for this worldwide epidemic in our third annual Fresno AIDS Walk as presented by WestCare California. All proceeds will benefit The Living Room, a project of WestCare, Fresno’s only HIV/AIDS social support center. Sponsors, vendors, walkers, & supporters are needed!
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Although there are a few Flat-Earthers out there who still believe gay marriage can be stopped, everyone else has accepted (or celebrated) it as an eventual inevitability. So now the question is: what’s next? Not just what’s next for LGBT equality–but also, what’s next for marriage? Earlier this year, I took up this question and
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A new poll shows strong support for the US Supreme Court action on marriage equality, mirroring an earlier poll by the same organization on marriage equality in general. ABC News reports: Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support the recent U.S. Supreme Court action allowing gay marriages to go forward in several
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Join Fresno Immigrant Youth in Action (#TeamFIYA) on Sunday November 2, 2014 at Fresno’s Two Cities Marathon & Half as we #RunForLiberation, demand #Not1MoreDeportation, because #MigrantLivesMatter and we need #HealthForAll!
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The fight for marriage equality in the US may be almost over, but the fight for transgender rights is just starting. Vocative has five maps and the story: …as important as visibility is for creating awareness, it’s just one step toward equality. For all the positive changes taking place, transgender Americans are still treated as
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Caleb Laieski may be young, tall and lanky, but he’s a fighter. At his Arizona high school, anti-gay bullying was so bad that he had to drop out and complete his education in a GED program. But the intense persecution he suffered had a sort of purifying effect – he channeled the bigotry against him into
“Oh what a night” it will be on Oct. 28 when the national tour of “Jersey Boys” swaggers into the Saroyan Theatre. Now’s your chance to see the show for free! Three lucky winners will each receive a pair of opening-night tickets. Enter to win HERE. JERSEY BOYS is coming to Fresno, October 28th – November
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