Spurring onlookers' cheers, the Minnesota Senate voted Monday to make gay marriage legal, putting the state on the brink of becoming the 12th to allow same-sex couples to marry. Gov. Mark Dayton immediately announced he would sign the legislation Tuesday.

A little less than eleven years ago, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. We've come a long way since then and Vox has a fantastic video tracking each step, each poll, and each percentage in the long and winding road towards nationwide equality.

The first same-sex marriage license was issued in West Michigan Saturday morning, following a landmark decision by a federal judge in which the state's ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional. (March 22, 2014)

Throughout the world, people and world leaders pay homage to the victims of Friday's barbaric attack carried out by Islamic state group militants. The Metropolitan opera played the French anthem La Marseillaise, to commemorate the victims.

Representative John Kriesel is one of four Republicans who voted their conscience instead of voting their party and opposed a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Minnesota. The state already does that by statute.

Texas lawmakers are gunning for the judge who let two lesbians to get married. Meanwhile, homophobic lawmakers celebrate the 10th anniversary of the state's marriage ban. There's just one problem: the law will probably be overturned before it actually turns ten. Plus various native American tribes a...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott urged residents in and around the city to evacuate after forecasts showed the entire state of Florida and in particular South Florida in real danger of a direct hit by the Category 5 storm, the largest storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean..

Eyes were a major part of all Alfred Hitchcock dramatic creations. From James Stewart to Grace Kelly eyes represented a state of mind and an artistic expression of desire, need, suspicion, fear and love. Music: "Anything can happen, and usually does... On the Orient Express" by Rob Cawley

Scott Bishop and Ron Sperry were among three same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses by the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds on Wednesday, Oct.9. The couples' requests were made as a part of a grassroots protest campaign against the state's anti-LGBT marriage laws and constitutional a...

Dalia Zaki, 11 yrs old of Reno, NV, testifies before the Nevada State Legislature Marriage Equality hearings. Dalia and her brother have a biological Mom and...