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MSNBC Host Thomas Roberts To Marry

MSNBC host Thomas Roberts is set to become the first openly gay news anchor to get married. The New York Observer reports: Mr. Roberts says his late-September wedding to Patrick Abner, of Merck Pharmaceuticals’ HIV/AIDS division, and his public persona as a gay man, are unlikely to hurt his career at MSNBC—not least because, unlike

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Retired Navy Captain Seeks To Address Republicans About Marriage Equality

Captain Joan Darrah, USN (ret) has written a letter to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell asking to be allowed to address the Republican Party platform committee in support of marriage equality and the freedom to marry when the committee meets in Tampa next week. She wants to explain to the platform committee how supporting marriage equality

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Democrat Committe Approves Marriage Equality Plank Unanimously

The Democratic Party’s Platform Committee unanimously approved language expressing support for marriage equality at its meeting Saturday in Detroit, sending the proposal on for ratification at the national convention next month in Charlotte, N.C. A DNC source told The Advocate that the full committee accepted the language revealed on Thursday without controversy, and approved an amendment

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Prop 8 Organizers Face $49K in Fines

More than $1 million in contributions to the organizers behind 2008’s ballot initiative to ban marriage equality in California were not properly reported to state authorities. The California Fair Political Practice Commission ordered ProtectMarriage.com: Yes on 8 to pay $49,000 in fines after failing to report some of the contributions received for the campaign. ProtectMarriage.com

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Chick-fil-A vandal speaks out

Manny Castro, the L.A.-based artist who claimed responsibility for the graffiti spray-painted on the side of a Torrance, California Chick-fil-A last week, has not been arrested for what he did despite his coming forward, and offers a statement to the Huffington Post about why he did it: My statement painted on the side of the

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