Rick Santorum doubled down on his backing for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage during an appearance.

Theodore B. Olson, co-counsel for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), joins New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to argue for full marriage equality in a New York Daily News Op-ed entitled “The Civil Union Bait and Switch: Compromise is Far From True Marriage Equality.”

An executive at a management firm that represents several professional hockey players came out against New York Rangers left wing Sean Avery, who has joined the fight for marriage equality.

Mad Men star John Slattery has contributed the latest video in the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality series from the Human Rights Campaign.

Advocates for same-sex marriage in Maryland, including the seven gay and lesbian members of the state legislature, are optimistic that the legislature will pass a marriage equality bill in 2011 but they are less certain about the prospects for a transgender rights bill.

In a surprising turn of events, the conservative host from The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, supports marriage equality. Hasselbeck’s most recent mentions include theorizing that lesbians who come out later in life are due to a shortage of available straight men.