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Demonstrators celebrate as a Federal Judge overturns California's gay-marriage ban in San Francisco
Gay-marriage supporters rally in the city's Castro District to celebrate a federal judge's ruling overturning California's gay-marriage ban in San Francisco on August 4, 2010. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's Proposition 8 in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. UPI/Terry Schmitt

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An anti-gay rights organization is seeking to overturn a California law that allows transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.
California Supreme Court ends legal battle over Proposition 8
The California Supreme Court, in a ruling Wednesday, ended the legal challenge to lower court rulings overturning a ban on same-sex marriage in the state.
California's Supreme Court has again refused to stop same-sex marriage, this time by rejecting a bid from a San Diego County official.
"Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson married his longtime partner Justin Mikita in New York, Ferguson's representative said.
The county clerk in San Diego filed a petition Friday seeking a court order exempting county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
California's Supreme Court has refused a request from ProtectMarriage, a group that sponsored Proposition 8, that it stop same-sex marriages.
Opponents of same-sex weddings in California filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to bar county clerks statewide from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
More than half of U.S. residents believe the U.S. Supreme Court got it right on the Defense of Marriage Act, a poll released Wednesday indicated.
John Barrowman weds longtime boyfriend in California
Scottish-born television star John Barrowman announced via his WhoSay account he has married his longtime partner Scott Gill in California.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request from supporters of Proposition 8 to stop same-sex marriages in California, an attorney said Sunday.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool