
Same-sex couples welcome Del. gay marriage law
Mikki Snyder-Hall married her partner, Claire, in California in 2008, and moved two years ago to Rehoboth, a gay-friendly Delaware beach town.

Delaware becomes 11th state with gay marriage
Delaware became the 11th state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage when Democratic Gov. Jack Markell signed a gay marriage bill into law just ...
Minnesota appears poised to legalize gay marriage
Minnesota appears poised to legalize gay marriage, as the Democratic speaker of the state House said Tuesday that a gay marriage bill endorsed by the ...

Disabled couple seek life together in group home
With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other's sentences.

Sotomayor speaks at NYC literature festival
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just "Sonia from the Bronx." And on Sunday, the first Hispanic justice on ...

RI now 10th state to allow gay marriage
Rhode Island has become the nation's 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, after a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this ...

Disabled Gaza baby lives in Israel hospital
In his short life, Palestinian toddler Mohammed al-Farra has known just one home: the yellow-painted children's ward in Israel's Tel Hashomer hospital

Rhode Island becomes 10th state with gay marriage
Rhode Island on Thursday became the nation's 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, as a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this ...
Biden: Abused women fear being raped by the system
Vice President Joe Biden says many women who are raped or physically abused don't report it because they don't want, in his words, "to get raped again ...

Colorado ushers in new law with midnight unions
The first gay couple granted a civil union in Colorado said their vows before hundreds of people early Wednesday morning at a downtown Denver ...

Sex ed book in Hebrew for Israel's Orthodox Jews
A how-to book translated into Hebrew aims to teach Israel's Orthodox Jews about sex, targeting an audience typically mum on the steamy subject.

'I'm gay': NBA player Jason Collins breaks barrier
Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade
As gender equity rises, more Ugandan women divorce
More women are initiating divorces in Uganda, a conservative East African country where women are becoming empowered to leave a bad marriage in a way ...

APNewsBreak: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo has book deal
Andrew Cuomo, the popular governor and a possible presidential contender in 2016, has a book deal. HarperCollins told The Associated Press on Monday ...

NBA veteran center Jason Collins comes out as gay
With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major ...

Obama calls Collins, offers support on coming out
A groundbreaking pronouncement from NBA veteran Jason Collins — "I'm gay" — reverberated Monday through Washington, generating accolades from ...
Men's pro sports finally joins gay-rights trend
By coming out as gay while still an active NBA player, Jason Collins breaks one of the last remaining barriers for gays and lesbians in era of ...

James Bond studio to open 1st US facility in Ga.
The British film studio that's home to the James Bond movie franchise announced plans Monday for its first U.S. film production facility, at a site ...

New conservative lobbying push for gay marriage
A national group of prominent GOP donors that supports gay marriage is pouring new money into lobbying efforts to get Republican lawmakers to vote to ...

Daycare owners arraigned in Calif. swaddling case
Two sisters facing charges that they endangered the lives of infants at their Northern California daycare center by binding them too tightly in ...

Coordinated strategy propelled gay marriage in RI
Phone banks, an army of volunteers and alliances with organized labor, business leaders and religious clergy propelled gay marriage to victory in ...

RI on way to be 10th state to allow gay marriage
Rhode Island is on a path to becoming the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry after a landmark vote in the state's Senate on ...

A risk including gay partners in immigration bill?
Frustrated at being left out of an immigration overhaul, gay rights groups are pushing to adjust a bipartisan Senate bill to include gay couples.

RI Senate leader plays key role in marriage debate
If Rhode Island joins the rest of New England in allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed, it will be because a formidable opponent, Senate President ...

French protest against gay marriage turns violent
France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge ...