GOP-controlled NY state senate passes gay marriage 33-29.

Same Sex Marriage signed into law in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo was a key backer of measure.

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.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, along with the Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the State Senate, sign HB 438 (Civil Marriage Protection Act) on March 1, 2012, making it law. Same-sex couples will be able to get married in 2013.

The Australian House of Representatives celebrates in the chamber on Thursday after passing a long-awaited bill to legalise same-sex marriage. The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, tells the gathered MPs that it’s a day 'for love, for equality, for respect' as those in the public gallery burst into

Rep. Maureen Walsh (R-Wa.) explains her support for a same-sex marriage bill at the Washington state House of Representatives referencing the emotions she shared with her husband and the relationship with her lesbian daughter.

Before voting on a resolution that would repeal Nevada's heterosexual definition of marriage, state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson came out to his fellow lawmakers, telling them, "I'm gay." The resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 13, passed 12-9 and now moves on to the state Assembly for a vote. Atkinson, a D...

After 50 years together, Henry and George traveled to New York City to legally wed. But once they crossed the state lines to return to their home state of Ohio, the legally married couple was treated as nothing more than legal strangers. Nearly half a century of love and commitment—and they want not

James Baker and Mauricio Gerson got married on April 18, 2014 in the State of New York. The witnesses included Diana Carras, Cliff and Alesia Shute and special guests Brian Hooper, Patricia and Mark Baumgardner. Judge Debra Urbano-DiSalvo presided the ceremony at the Village of Amityville in Long Is...

Another state finally recognizes the freedom to marry, bringing the national total to ten. With work accelerating in Delaware and Illinois, that could increase to eleven or twelve in the next few weeks. Civil unions start in Colorado, and a civil union bill in tiny Arizona town could bring about civ...