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         ::    Florida governor Charlie Crist should expect a few uninvited guests outside his wedding in St. Petersburg later this month. The group Impact-Florida , which organized protests on Nov. 15 of the state's anti-gay Amendment 2 , has invited...

Source: Florida court decision [pdf], Orlando Sentinel , St. Petersburg Times , Chicago Tribune , Miami Herald , OpEd News It's a contemporary Christmas tale that has all the tear-jerker elements required for the that literary genre. Two boys -- one four years old, the other just four months old...

Source: US News & World Report , ACLU press release via Foster Folly News , Miami Herald A 1977 Florida state law that bans gay individuals from adopting has received its biggest challenge thus far: Foster father Frank Martin Gill won his suit to adopt two brothers he has been fostering since 2004...

Source: seaQwa staff, Reuters , New York Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , Boston Globe , Wichita Eagle , Fresno Bee , Knoxville News , Florida Times Union , Seattle Times , Missoulian   Seattle rally at Volunteer Park and march on Broadway Advocates for equality in marriage laws stretched in Seattle...

Source: ABC Action News , Associated Press , WPBF WEST PALM BEACH, FL – "Torturous. Difficult, embarrassing, I don't know how many adjectives I could throw at you to quantify this experience." Those words broke a two-year, self-imposed silence by former South Florida Congressman Mark...

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Palm Beach Post , First Coast News Local government leaders in south Florida don't plan to retreat from offering domestic partnership benefits in the wake of voters' decision last week to rewrite the Florida Constitution to outlaw marriage for gay/lesbian...

Source: St. Petersburg Times , South Florida Sun Sentinel , Miami CBS4 "It's really a remarkable victory -- we're thrilled," said lawyer John Stemberger, who ran the campaign Florida4Marriage, the right-wing group that promoted Amendment 2, a Florida ballot measure banning marriages...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times CA Prop. 8 On a day that saw the greatest breakthrough ever in the long and sorry history of racial discrimination in America, a day when American voters overwhelmingly elected the country's first African American president, voters in four states...

[This post will be regularly updated throughout the evening with latest results.] 8:45 PT: CNN projects that Proposition 102 will pass in Arizona. 9:01 PT: CNN projects that Initiative 1 will pass in Arkansas Ovenight: CNN prejects Amendment 2 will pass in Florida **** 8 pm: NBC projects Obama the winner...

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Local10 News Florida is the only state that outright prohibits gay men and lesbians from adopting children. Now, those who support and oppose adoption by gay couples are awaiting a decision in a Miami court case they think could provide ammunition to overturn the...