Marriage Equality Activists To Rally In D.C. WASHINGTON (AP) – Activists from D.C.’s gay community plan to hold a meeting to rally people around the campaign to allow gay couples to marry in D.C. Advocates said Wednesday they’ve scheduled the gathering for 7 p.m. on Sept. 30, at the...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk announced plans Sunday for a march on Washington this fall to demand that Congress establish equality and marriage rights for the lesbian, gay and transgender community. Cleve Jones, whose character in last year’s...

A political fight over the rights of same-sex couples is drawing nearer in Washington. Backers of Referendum 71, who want to overturn a new state same-sex partnership law, have made an appointment to file signatures with state elections officials Saturday afternoon, elections officials said Monday. Saturday...

(Washington) A group of AIDS activists was arrested Thursday for unlawfully demonstrating in the Capitol rotunda, a Capitol Police spokeswoman said. Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said 11 men and 15 women each face a charge of unlawful assembly, disorderly conduct and loud and boisterous behavior. Their names...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A law recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere has gone into effect in the District of Columbia. The bill was approved in a 12-1 vote by the D.C. Council in May, with council member Marion Barry casting the lone no vote. Congress, which has the final say over the city’s...

The path to legalizing gay marriage in the District of Columbia begins Tuesday as the city’s new gay marriage recognition law takes effect. The law recognizes the marriages of gay and lesbian couples performed elsewhere. City Council members approved the new ordinance in a 12 to 1 vote in May,...