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:: A UK employment tribunal awarded almost £200,000 in compensation Wednesday to a lesbian soldier who suffered a campaign of harassment from her boss. Lance Bombardier Kerry Fletcher , 32, was pestered for sex by Staff Sergeant Ian Brown , 40, who told her she was gay because she had "not had a...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times , AFP SAN FRANCISCO -- The state Supreme Court, which in May determined that marriage is a fundamental right available to gay and lesbian couples, plunged back into the same-sex marriage wars today, agreeing to decide the legality of a ballot measure...

Source: Los Angeles Times , Reuters , AFP , Sacramento Bee   CA Prop. 8 California's Attorney General on Monday urged the state Supreme Court to consider whether Prop. 8 -- the marriage equality ban passed by voters this month -- was legal. "The profound importance of the issues raised...

Source: Contra Costa Times , Los Angeles Times , Stanford News Service , Dorf on Law , Slate The long-running and complex battle for marriage equality in California has twice been fought at the ballot box where voters have twice rejected the notion that gay and lesbian couples should be able to marry...

Source: CNN , San Diego Union Tribune Talking with CNN correspondent John King on the channel's Late Edition Sunday talk show, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger assured same-sex couples who have been married in the state that their marriages will remain valid, despite passage Tuesday of Proposition...

Source: Sacramento Bee , Morgan Hill Times , OnTop Magazine , Bay Area IndyMedia , Los Angeles Times California's battle over gay marriage shifted from the ballot box to the courts Wednesday as stunned opponents of Proposition 8 declared they had too much at stake to concede. Advocates of the measure...

Source: New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Contra Costa Times , AFP CA Prop. 8 A giant rainbow-colored flag in the gay-friendly Castro neighborhood of San Francisco was flying at half-staff on Wednesday as social and religious conservatives celebrated the passage of measures that ban same-sex marriage...

Source: Wall Street Journal , Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News , No-on-8 press release CA Prop. 8 Opponents of California's proposed ban on marriage equality in California report that their website was shut down by a coordinated computer attack, amid rising tensions over one of the nation's...

Source: LA Weekly CA Prop. 8 With less than two weeks left before Californians finally weigh in at the ballot box and decide the fate of marriage equality in the state, the LA Weekly prints a wide-ranging cover story on Proposition 8 today. The feature by Patrick Range McDonald offers deeper insight...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Wall Street Journal , Los Angeles Times CA Prop. 8 A majority of California voters oppose Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state, but a new statewide poll shows that the gap has narrowed in the past month. According to the Oct...