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Vanasco: Is Maine about to lose marriage?

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:09:42 +0000

Poll numbers from the Daily Kos suggest that Maine might be about to go the way of California – even though it seems that the state is currently leaning Democratic.

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Anti-domestic partner referendum makes ballot

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:00:05 +0000

(Olympia, Wash.) A referendum on an expansion of Washington’s domestic partnership law for gay couples has qualified for the November ballot, election officials said Monday.

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Battle to reverse Prop 8 begins

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:38:29 +0000

(San Francisco) LGBT groups have begun efforts to put a repeal of Proposition 8 on the 2010 ballot.

Prop 8, passed by voters in November, bars same-sex marriage in California. The(...)

Money flowing in on both sides ofn Calif. gay marriage issue

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:21:46 +0000

(San Francisco, California) The battle over a battle effort to amend the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriage could be the most costly amendment ever.

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Gay foes want ballot initiative process in Connecticut

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:22:55 +0000

The Family Institute of Connecticut wants a system of direct initiative - in which people can petition to get issues onto the ballot - because it hopes voters will eventually pass a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Gay foes end battle over Calif. amendment wording

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:24:27 +0000

(San Francisco, California) A group behind a proposed amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California is abandoning its fight over the wording that will appear on the November(...)

Calif. judge: Gay-friendly ballot wording OK

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:00:51 +0000

(Sacramento, California) A judge in Sacramento ruled Friday that the revamped wording on a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the California constitution is acceptable. The ballot question originally had been described as a measure to limit marriage between a man and a woman. Last month Attorney General Jerry Brown changed the description [...]

Ballot Measure Would Cancel Gainesville LGBT Protections

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:51:53 +0000

(Gainesville, Florida) A social conservative voters group opposed to a Gainesville law protecting the rights of transpeople in employment and housing has mounted a repeal effort that could terminate rights of all LGBT people in the city. On Tuesday, Citizens for Good Public Policy turned in more than the required number of signatures to have [...]

Major Calif. Company To Fight Anti-Gay Ballot Measure

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:37:55 +0000

(San Francisco, Calif.) California’s largest public utility has given a quarter-million dollars to the fight against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. Pacific Gas and Electric Company turned the check over to NO on 8 – the organization formed by Equality California, the state’s largest LGBT civil rights group [...]