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Marriage Equality in Maine: The Way Life Will Be

With the governor’s signature Wednesday, Maine became the fifth state in the country to allow gay marriage. Appropriately, the final debate was about equality and civil rights. That is where the focus should remain as groups opposed to same-sex marriage have pledged a people’s veto of the new law.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2009
2:14 PM

CONTACT: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, Director of Communications
(Office) 646.358.1463 (Cell) 202.641.5592
isorensen@theTaskForce.org

Maine Becomes the Fifth State to Grant the Freedom to Marry to Same-Sex Couples

WASHINGTON - May 6 - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund issued the following statement after Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation today making Maine the fifth state to grant the freedom to marry to same-sex couples.

Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund

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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up. We do this by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, building the organizational capacity of our movement and generating groundbreaking research through our Policy Institute.

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Maine Becomes 5th State to Approve Gay Marriage

Amy Klein-Matheny (L) and her wife Jennifer are married by Rev. Peg Esperanza (R) in the Polk County Administration Building in April 2009 in Des Moines, Iowa. The governor of Maine signed a law making the northeastern US state the fifth to allow gays to marry. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)

NEW YORK - The governor of Maine on Wednesday signed a law making the northeastern US state the fifth to allow gays to marry.

Governor John Baldacci, a Democrat, signed the law after the upper chamber in the state legislature voted 21 to 13 in favor.

"In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions," Baldacci said in a statement on his website.

"I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage."

Posted in civil liberties, Equality/Justice, gay marriage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2009
3:20 PM

CONTACT: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, Director of Communications
(Office) 646.358.1463 (Cell) 202.641.5592
isorensen@theTaskForce.org

Task Force Action Fund Applauds Maine House's Passage of Marriage Equality Bill

WASHINGTON - May 5 - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund applauds the Maine House's passage today of legislation that would extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples. The vote was 89 to 57. The measure cleared the Senate last week; the bill faces one more vote in that chamber before heading to Gov. John Baldacci.

Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund

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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up. We do this by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, building the organizational capacity of our movement and generating groundbreaking research through our Policy Institute.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Links:
Posted in Equality/Justice, gay marriage, glbt

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2009
1:41 PM

CONTACT: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, Director of Communications
(Office) 646.358.1463 (Cell) 202.641.5592
isorensen@theTaskForce.org

Task Force Action Fund Applauds Maine Senate's Passage of Marriage Equality Bill

WASHINGTON - April 30 - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund applauds the Maine Senate's passage today of legislation that would extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples. The measure advances to the House.

Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund

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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up. We do this by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, building the organizational capacity of our movement and generating groundbreaking research through our Policy Institute.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Links:
Posted in Equality/Justice, gay marriage, glbt

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 29, 2009
4:48 PM

CONTACT: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Inga Sarda-Sorensen, Director of Communications
(Office) 646.358.1463 (Cell) 202.641.5592
isorensen@theTaskForce.org

Task Force Action Fund Lauds New Hampshire Senate’s Passage of Marriage Equality Bill

Deeply disappointed in vote on transgender discrimination and hate crimes bill

WASHINGTON - April 29 - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund lauds the New Hampshire Senate's passage of a bill extending the freedom to marry to same-sex couples. The Senate passed the legislation today by a vote of 13 to 11; the state House of Representatives previously passed the bill by a vote of 186 to 179. Because the Senate added minor amendments to the bill, it now heads back to the state House for another vote.

The Task Force Action Fund is deeply disappointed, however, in the Senate's failure today to pass the transgender nondiscrimination and hate crimes bill.

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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force builds the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up. We do this by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, building the organizational capacity of our movement and generating groundbreaking research through our Policy Institute.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Links:
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Marriage Equality: The Way Life Should Be

On Wednesday, April 22, 2009 a public hearing was held to allow Maine residents to comment on a proposed legislative bill to allow full marriage equality in the state.  The following remarks were offered by Maine State Senator Dennis Damon as he publicly introduced LD 1020: An Act To End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom:

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California's Gay Marriage Trailblazers Look East for Signs of Progress

Demonstrators show their support for overturning California's ban on gay marriage, participating in a march from Berkeley to the Capitol late last month. California now sees other states taking the lead in extending marriage rights to gays. (Lezlie Sterling)

California's legislators were gay-rights trailblazers when a majority passed the first same-sex marriage bill in the United States in 2005.

But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill, and voters passed a ban on gay marriage with Proposition 8. Now gay activists in the Golden State find themselves looking East for fresh inspiration.

In a dizzying series of events, Iowa's Supreme Court and Vermont's legislature legalized gay marriage just this month.

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The Bigots' Last Hurrah

WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic "The Village of the Damned" with the Broadway staple "A Chorus Line"? You don't need to use your imagination. It's there waiting for you on YouTube under the title "Gathering Storm": a 60-second ad presenting homosexuality as a national threat second only to terrorism.

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State Fairness: Whac-a-Mole and Marriage Equality

When I was growing up in Syracuse, New York I was not a big fan of our annual State Fair. The mid-way was too freaky, sticky and crowded but I loved bumper cars and Whac-a-mole. As a budding butch from a very mannered family, I had a lot of pent-up anger. In bumper cars my goal was to cause whiplash.

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