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As most anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account, computer, television, radio or newspaper has heard voters in North Carolina on Tuesday approved Amendment One, a far-reaching ban on same-sex marriage as well as other forms of relationship recognition for gay and lesbian couples.

The U.S. House of Representatives today reauthorized the LGBT-inclusive Senate version of Violence Against Women Act, despite objections from some Republicans about language protecting LGBT, Native American, and undocumented victims of domestic violence. The bill now heads to President Obama's desk, where he has promised to sign it into law.

A lesbians rite of passage if you will.

New Zealand’s Parliament approved marriage equality today in the third and final vote required for the legislation’s passage.

Filmmaker Anne Renton is awash in emotions about the passage of Prop 8 and the resulting ban of gay marriage.

Activist David Mixner predicts that the time to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 2010 is running out, with passage of even the “watered-down and questionably useful” compromise looking grim.

Welcome back for part 3 of Cathy DeBuono's and Jill Bennett's special edition video blog of their Prop.8 protest experiences following the measure's passage.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is pushing for the passage of same-sex marriage legislation next year in Maryland, and has teamed up with Marlanders for Marriage Equality by participating in a series of web videos for the group’s ad campaign.

An Iowa house committee voted Monday to advance a resolution that calls for a constitutional amendment to repeal marriage equality in the state and ban other same-sex partnership recognition. house Joint Resolution 6 passed the judiciary committee 13-8 and headed to the full Republican-controlled house, where passage is expected as soon as next week. Senate majority leader Mike Gronstal has vowed to block consideration of the resolution in his chamber. House and senate passage of the measure would be required in two consecutive sessions before an amendment could be presented to voters on the ballot.

The New Republic executive editor Richard Just writes that President Barack Obama shows the same resistance to marriage equality as President Woodrow Wilson did to gender and race, and if history is any guide, the portrait will be “unflattering” with the passage of time.

As voters head to the polls in North Carolina today, turnout is expected to be high, which leaves opponents of Amendment 1, the constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and other unions, hopeful for an upset victory despite polling that indicates easy passage of the measure.

New York senate Republicans will meet Friday for the third day in a day row to discuss whether to vote on the marriage equality bill, which has remained one vote shy of passage since Tuesday. Republican senators in New York plan to meet in conference Friday morning for the third day in a row as they deliberate whether to bring the marriage equality bill for a vote before the scheduled end of session this Monday. The bill currently has support from 31 senators, including two Republicans, putting it one vote shy of passage, with one more Republican senator needed to vote yes.

Since Nov. 4, tens of thousands of angry LGBT people and their allies have taken to the streets, not just in California, but all over the country. This is a speech Robin Tyler made in Silverlake Nov. 8, at the largest rally to date, (13,000 people) protesting the passage of Prop 8.