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Same Sex Marriage

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SCOTUS considers petition on same-sex marriage

  • Nov 7, 2025
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SCOTUS asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

  • Aug 11, 2025
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How US adults' views on same-sex marriage changed since 2015 ruling

  • Jun 26, 2025

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

  • Apr 11, 2021
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'This won't take away our joy': Fuquay-Varina wedding venue denies same-sex couple marriage

  • Apr 11, 2021
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Bill introduced in NC House would restore ban on same-sex marriage

  • Jun 12, 2017
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Bill to restore ban on same-sex marriage goes nowhere

  • Apr 12, 2017
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Kentucky clerk appeals jail order

  • Sep 7, 2015

Latest Stories

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz calls 2015 Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling 'clearly wrong'

"I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided. It was the court overreaching."

  • Jul 18, 2022

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

'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