Proposition 8

As the 9th Circuit Court was striking down Proposition 8, the chairman of Goldman Sachs, probably the nation's most powerful investment bank, was taking an out-front stand in favor of same-sex marriage.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a hard-won reputation for issuing sweeping, precedent-setting and liberal rulings that are often overturned by the more conservative U.S. Supreme Court.

In a major lift for supporters of California's same-sex marriage ban, the state's highest court ruled Thursday that proponents of ballot initiatives can defend their measures in court when the governor and attorney general refuse to do so.

Unmoved by claims that donors supporting California's same-sex marriage ban were harassed, a federal judge on Thursday denied a bid to conceal their identities.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday sharply revised downward its estimate of the number of same-sex households across the country, reflecting confusion over how to accurately count gay and lesbian couples that have gained varying degrees of legal recognition of their partnerships over the past decade.

Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers Friday, handing activists a breakthrough victory in the state where the gay rights movement was born.

Little by little, in one court ruling after another, the legal opposition to gay marriage is being discredited.

Members of the public can attend a forum on same-sex marriage Thursday put on by the political science club at Sierra College.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion Wednesday to lift its stay on a lower court ruling declaring unconstitutional voter-approved Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage.

I never thought I'd become a full-fledged supporter of same-sex marriage, especially growing up in a socially conservative Catholic family of Mexican descent.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris requested Tuesday that a federal appeals court lift a stay on a judge's decision declaring a voter- approved ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

The elected clerk of Imperial County, Chuck Storey, filed a motion Friday to intervene in ongoing proceedings over Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved ballot measure that prohibited same-sex marriage.

In a significant change of course, President Barack Obama has decided that a federal law against gay marriage is unconstitutional and his justice department will no longer defend it in court, the White House announced Wednesday.

The state Supreme Court voted unanimously Wednesday to decide whether the sponsors of a 2008 ballot measure prohibiting same-sex marriage have the legal standing to defend it under state law.