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The Maine senate voted 20-15 on Thursday morning to pass a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Senators also voted 22-13 to reject an amendment that would send the marriage-equality question to voters in a referendum. Today’s votes follow a firm recommendation for the marriage-equality legislation from a joint judiciary committee on Tuesday. Legislators voted

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Aiming to stake his claim to the tech-savvy young voters who helped elect President Obama, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, 41, today took to the new media to formally announce he’s running for governor – by directly addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters simultaneously via his site, Facebook and Twitter. Read the rest of story

Local activist Robin McGehee is interviewed in a very interesting article in the Bay Area Reporter: "On March 26, McGehee said that she and others had a call with Shorter and others from EQCA. The organization had wanted to check in to learn more about Meet in the Middle, and McGehee told the B.A.R. she

The audition tapes behind the National Organization For Marriage’s new anti-gay ad are being continuously posted, pulled and re-posted…here they are while they last…

**The audition tapes for this commercial were released April 8th, which showed that all those in the commercial were actors, but the National Organization For Marriage forced YouTube to pull those ads from the internet on April 9th…

While we in California await a decision from the Supreme Court which looks as though it will be another defeating blow to our movement, Vermont has become the 4th state in the nation to legalize same sex marriage. This, even after a veto by the state’s Governor. The legislature stepped in to overturn his veto.