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Brazil: 171 Politicians Join Marriage Equality Effort

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Jean WyllysA group of 171 senators and deputies in Brazil have joined a “Parliamentary Front for the LGBT Community,” which will promote the legalization of gay marriage, Spanish news agency EFE reported.

The effort is helmed by Senator Marta Suplicy and Congressman Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s first openly gay lawmaker.

Wyllys, who parlayed a 2005 Big Brother Brazil win into a political career, is also an outspoken gay rights advocate. A member of the socialist-inspired P-SOL party, Wyllys has said he’s received homophobic threats on social networks, including Twitter, for backing the intiative.

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Gay Groups to Adopt Fight Back New York Strategy on Marriage Equality

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Gay Marriage EqualityLast spring, a low-profile Colorado millionaire, Tim Gill, and other gay donors financed a quiet wave of polling in a state Senate district in Buffalo and another in a Hispanic section of Queens.

The question: Would the news that a candidate “was being targeted by wealthy homosexual activists for his vote against gay marriage” make voters more or less likely to support him? Sizable majorities responded that they didn’t care much one way or the other.

The results gave courage to Gill and other top gay donors, producing a campaign that helped unseat three incumbent state legislators and opened a new phase in the politics of the gay rights movement that could have an even larger impact on the 2012 cycle. Under the New York model, well-funded gay rights groups will seek to make support for same-sex marriage as mandatory in blue America as allegiance to the Second Amendment is in red America – and to make opposition just as politically suicidal.

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US: New Website to Document Which States & Candidates Support Marriage Equality

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

To date, StatesThatAllowGayMarriage.com has used media accounts, press releases from candidates and elected officials, and the public voting record of elected officials to document the support for or opposition to equal marriage rights of all 50 governors, 100 United States senators, and 435 United States representatives.

“Until StatesThatAllowGayMarriage.com launched, there was no one place you could go to find this information,” said Michael Zuyus, founder of StatesThatAllowGayMarriage.com. “We want to make it easy for people to get the information they need in order to support candidates who will vote for marriage rights in their state.”

Given that all of the expansions of equal marriage rights have taken place at the state level, StatesThatAllowGayMarriage.com will begin documenting the positions of state lawmakers. The site will start with states that are seeing the most legislative action on marriage equality: New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Maine.

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Australia: Marriage Equality Group Calls on Politicians to Support Gay Marriage

Monday, April 19th, 2010

It’s the fight that won’t go away and advocacy group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) has now called on both sides of the political divide to come out for same-sex marriage.

The call follows a statement by former High Court justice Michael Kirby, at the International Queer Studies Conference in Brisbane this month, questioning the lack of action on gay marriage in Australia.

“The present federal Government have not thought it timely to attack the issue [of legalising gay marriage],” the ABC reported Kirby as saying. “It has also been agitated in the trade union movement but so far it hasn’t secured anybody in the federal Parliament, in the Labor Party, to champion the cause. At the moment they are hiding their heads and they are not doing much about it.” AME national convenor Alex Greenwich told Sydney Star Observer it’s up to the GLBTI community to make a stand at election time.

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