Washington state senator Ed Murray, lead sponsor of a bill to legalize marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state, believes that the senate is poised for a Wednesday floor vote on the matter.

A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage passed the New Jersey senate judiciary committee as expected Tuesday afternoon.

Gay travelers just got another reason to head to the Caribbean.

The City Clerk’s Office in Orlando, Florida, is expected to receive a rush of gay couples next month when the city’s new domestic-partnership registry goes into effect.

Young Republicans in Minnesota are among the grassroots opposition to a November ballot measure that would ban gay marriage under the state constitution.

In what was likely the last hearing before a ruling is delivered on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appeared unconvinced that a previous ruling on the ban be tossed because the judge was in a longterm same-sex relationship.