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Gay Marriage

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James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, dies age 89

  • Aug 22, 2025
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How US adults' views on same-sex marriage changed since 2015 ruling

  • Jun 26, 2025

LGBTQ+ Triangle families express fear over another Trump term

  • Nov 15, 2024

Allies offer to stand in as family at transgender man's wedding

  • Jun 6, 2024

LA couple invited to DC to witness signing of Respect for Marriage Act

  • Dec 13, 2022

These senators voted against bill to protect same-sex marriage

  • Nov 30, 2022

Durham couple skeptical of Respect for Marriage Act

  • Nov 30, 2022

LGBTQ+ advocates in NC react to House bill codifying marriage rights

  • Jul 20, 2022

Latest Videos

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Durham couple skeptical of Respect for Marriage Act

  • Nov 30, 2022
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'It's shocking': LGBTQ+ advocates react to House bill codifying marriage rights

  • Jul 20, 2022
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'We're people': Out Raleigh celebrants react to possible SCOTUS action on same sex marriage

  • Jun 25, 2022
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Suit contests NC religious objection law on gay marriage

  • Dec 9, 2015
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Kentucky clerk appeals jail order

  • Sep 7, 2015

Gov. McCrory to veto gay marriage opposition bill

  • May 28, 2015
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Gov. to veto marriage objection bill

  • May 28, 2015
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Religious objections bill back in House

  • May 27, 2015

Latest Stories

3 LGBT seniors and 1 youth: Here are their coming out stories

San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors and youth share their coming out stories and how their rights have changed over the years.

  • Jul 1, 2022

'We're people': Out Raleigh celebrants react to possible SCOTUS action on same sex marriage

Music and laughter filled the air along Fayetteville Street outside the ABC11 Raleigh Eyewitness News Center as Out Raleigh Pride returned in person after a pandemic pause.

  • Jun 25, 2022
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Lesbian pioneers pave the way for LGBTQ+ rights years before Stonewall Riots

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin could easily be called the mothers of the lesbian rights movement. They spent most of their adult lives fighting for recognition and equality. They founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first organization for lesbians in the United States in San Francisco in 1955.

  • Oct 21, 2021

ABC11 celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month by recognizing local pioneers

ABC11 is celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month and spoke to local pioneers including Chad Biggs and Chris Creech, the first same-sex couple to get married in North Carolina.

  • Jun 1, 2021

'This won't take away our joy': Fuquay-Varina wedding venue denies same-sex couple marriage

"The fact that we don't have access to things that other people have equal access to is discrimination in my eyes."

  • Apr 11, 2021