The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday urging the U.S. Navy to name a ship after slain Supervisor Harvey Milk. The board voted 9-2 in favor of the proposal, which came from U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, D-San Diego, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, who made the request to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected ......

Following president Barack Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage earlier today, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney stood by his anti-gay marriage stance, telling KDVR Denver, “I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name.” Mother Jones published a piece parsing Obama’s statement, and obtained a comment from an administration source who said that the president’s views were his own and that “he’s not saying ......

In an interview with ABC news today, president Barack Obama endorsed gay marriage. The statement marks a turning point for Obama, who has danced around the issue in the past. The press conference was called in the wake of North Carolina approving a gay marriage ban, which the president said “disappointed” him and vice president Joe Biden stating on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was “absolutely comfortable” with gay ......

To prove that love knows no boundaries, same-sex couples and gay marriage advocates made a symbolic gesture at the San Francisco County Clerk's Office this Valentine's Day. The visits to the county clerk's office are an annual event during National Freedom to Marry Week, which was created in 1999 by Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocacy law firm. But this year's event comes just a week after a historic decision ......

Washington became the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage, when Gov. Christine Gregoire on Monday signed a bill allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed. Those weddings can begin on June 7, the day the new law takes effect. But opponents to same-sex marriage are already planning initiatives to overturn the new law, the Associated Press reported. Gregoire signed the bill into law one week after a federal appeals court ......