News If and when supporters of same-sex marriage rights in Oregon bring a measure to the state ballot, they might consider enlisting Barbara Bush for the campaign.Not the former First Lady Barbara Bush who's married to former President George H.W. Bush. The ex-First Lady's granddaughter, as in the Barbara Bush who's the daughter of ex-President George W. Bush. The younger Barbara Bush is in this video below ...   More

News While supporters of same-sex marriage in Oregon tell their stories in hopes of getting a future measure on the state ballot, their counterparts elsewhere are fighting their own battles to achieve the same goal of marriage rights.There's a move by backers of same-sex marriage in Maryland's legislature to make the state the seventh to provide gay and lesbian couples with full marriage rights.And on the ...   More

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News What's missing from the following sentence? Vermont today became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage, joining Iowa, Connecticut and Massachusetts. If you answered that Oregon is missing from that illustrious list, be sure to pick up Wednesday's WW and find out what backers of gay marriage in our state are planning to correct that state of affairs. And if you didn't answer Oregon, ...   More

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News Tonight's kickoff of Basic Rights Oregon's campaign to get Measure 36 overturned by state voters in 2012 has a new location. The kickoff event featuring Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson has been moved to PSU's Smith Memorial Student Union in the Vanport Room (#338) at 6 pm. Based on what Wolfson told WW in this week's paper, it should be a worthwhile event. UPDATE: I forgot to include in ...   More

News Here's a piece of positive news for Basic Rights Oregon to talk about on Oregonians' doorsteps as its supporters push for marriage rights: Argentina has become the first Latin American country to OK same-sex marriage. If you're a gay or lesbian couple in Oregon who doesn't want to wait until 2012 in hopes of getting married here, here are other places around the globe — and in the United ...   More

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News Same-sex couples in California will have to delay their wedding bells even longer. After a federal judge ruled Prop 8 unconstitutional on Aug. 4, same-sex couples in California hoped they would be able to get married as soon as this week. However, a federal appeals court today agreed to stay U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's order and set a hearing date for Dec. 6, meaning same-sex couples ...   More