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News (USA)
Maryland voters approve same-sex marriage law
With nearly all precincts reporting, voters in Maryland have approved the Civil Marriage Protection Act, giving same-sex couples the right to marry.
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News (USA)
West Virginia elects first openly gay state legislator
Stephen Skinner tonight has become the first openly gay candidate to win election to the West Virginia state legislature.
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News (USA)
Historic: Maine voters legalize marriage equality for same-sex couples
In a historic and landmark vote, the state of Maine has legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote, becoming the first state in the nation to pass a marriage equality measure at the ballot box.
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News (USA)
Four more years: President Obama elected to second term
President Barack Obama won re-election to the White House for a second term on Tuesday evening, according to major media outlets, bringing to an end a tumultuous campaign against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
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News (USA)
Tammy Baldwin to become first openly-LGBT U.S. Senator
Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., has become the first openly LGBT candidate to win election to the U.S. Senate.
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News (USA)
New York sends openly gay candidate to U.S. Congress
Sean Patrick Maloney has become the second openly gay non-incumbent to win election to Congress tonight. He beat Rep. Nan Hayworth, a Republican who is serving in her first term in the House.
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News (USA)
Mark Pocan will be next openly-LGBT member of Congress
Democratic Wisconsin State Rep. Mark Pocan will succeed Rep. Tammy Baldwin in the U.S. House of Representatives, marking the first time an openly LGBT member of Congress will be followed by another in the same Congressional District. Pocan easily won his general election in the state’s 2nd Congressional District, which Baldwin has represented since 1998. […]
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News (USA)
Joe Kennedy III wins seat held by retiring congressman Barney Frank
BOSTON — The American first family of Democratic politics is back in national prominence as the 32-year-old grandson of the slain New York Senator Robert Kennedy has been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District.
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News (USA)
GOP Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh loses Congressional seat
CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) was defeated tonight in his bid for re-election in Illinois’ 8th Congressional district seat by former Veteran’s Affairs Administration official and U.S. Army National Guard Reserve Lt. Colonel, Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat who lost both her legs during the Iraq war.
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News (USA)
Out Congressman David Cicilline re-elected in Rhode Island
Gay Rep. David Cicilline won re-election to Congress on Tuesday from Rhode Island. Cicilline, a former two-term mayor of Providence, should have had a relatively easy race for a second term in office in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3 to 1 margin, according to most political observers in Rhode Island.
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News (USA)
U.S. Senate: Elizabeth Warren unseats GOP incumbent Scott Brown
BOSTON — Elizabeth Warren has been declared the winner in the U.S. Senate race from Massachusetts, unseating GOP incumbent Scott Brown, and will become the state’s first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
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News (USA)
LGBT ally Maggie Hassan declared winner in N.H. gubernatorial race
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan has been declared the winner in a hotly contested race to replace retiring New Hampshire Governor John Lynch.
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News (USA)
Victory in Florida: From no LGBT legislators to two or more
Joe Saunders is expected to win his race for the Florida House of Representatives tonight, joining David Richardson, who won a decisive primary for another State House seat in August.
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Life
Kirk Cameron: Defeat Obama to ‘hold back the flood of moral and spiritual evil’
Kirk Cameron told his fellow anti-Obama activists Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association that Christians must use the election to “hold back the flood of moral and spiritual evil that has been pouring into the country and give moms and dads and grandparents the opportunity to begin rebuilding morality and spirituality.”
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News (World)
Spain’s Constitutional Court upholds same-sex marriage law
Spain’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the legality of the country’s same-sex marriage law, rejecting an appeal contending that marriage in the Spanish constitution means only the union of a man and woman.
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News (USA)
Will election results make it be a banner day for marriage equality?
While voters across America have never approved of same-sex marriage at the ballot box, final polls in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington show that marriage equality is poised to make history today.
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Commentary
The audacity of hope for my rights: Why voting for Obama is so personal
Today, there is only one choice for anyone who is gay and who wishes to be recognized as an equal citizen in this country: President Obama. He is the only sitting president to have publicly supported full equality for members of the LGBT communities through both legislation and endorsement of acts that provide equal protection, opportunity and benefits to LGBT people under the law.
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News (USA)
Family members take Senate candidate to task for anti-gay views
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The family of Ohio’s state Treasurer, Josh Mandel (R), who is running for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown, has placed a newspaper ad in the form of an open letter, denouncing Mandel for his anti-gay positions.
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News (USA)
GOP lawmaker cites deceased gay brother as he fights same-sex marriage
AUGUSTA, Maine — A Republican state lawmaker in Maine urged voters to reject the marriage equality ballot initiative while invoking the memory of his deceased gay brother, who was in a 25+ year relationship with his partner.
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News (USA)
Future of Colorado civil unions hinges on state house, senate victories
While there isn’t an explicit referendum on Tuesday’s ballot asking Colorado voters whether the state’s same-sex partners should have legal relationship recognition, the immediate fate of a bill that would establish such will be decided in less than 48 hours — two months before lawmakers meet to discuss the matter.