Watch: ESPN Airs Pro Bowler Scott Norton Kissing His Husband

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Jim Buzinski from Outsports posted this video yesterday of professional bowler Scott Norton kissing his husband after winning the PBA Chameleon Championship in Las Vegas.  The competition took place in November, but was aired this past Sunday.

According to Jim, this is the first time ESPN has aired a same sex kiss.  Not only that, but the announcers treated the champion’s relationship as a non issue.  They simply referred to the Scott’s husband as “husband” and “spouse” interchangeably

The best way to show progress is to have our relationships acknowledged without explanation or fanfare.  It just “is”.

Read Jim’s entire post here.

Macklemore Same Love

As the year comes to an end we look back at all of the leaps and bounds marriage equality has had. One of the best illustrations of progress is the Hip Hop culture. Previously labeled as homophobic, we are seeing an evolution of minds and perspectives.

Top Hip Hop artist Frank Ocean admitted this year that his first love was a man and rapper, Macklemore, currently at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his hit Thrift Shop, has embraced same-sex marriage and gay rights with his song, Same Love.

In 2013, we know that things are only going to get better. If you have not watched Macklemore Same Love yet, well, you don’t know what you are missing.

 

Obama Urges IL Lawmakers to Legalize Gay Marriage

Barack Obama has endorsed marriage equality in his home state of Illinois.

White House spokesman Shin Inouye told the Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet Sunday that the president “believes in treating everyone fairly and equally, with dignity and respect” and that, were he still a member of the Illinois state legislature, “he would support this measure that would treat all Illinois couples equally.”

Obama’s endorsement comes a month before state legislators plan on bringing a bill to the floor. Passage of the bill would make Illinois the 10th state to allow same sex marriage.

The tides have turned. Poll after poll have shown public opinion rapidly shifting in support of same sex marriage. In November, three states voted for marriage equality, Washington, Maine and Maryland.

Read the full article from the Huffington Post here.

A Year in Review – Marriage Equality in 2012

Marriage News Watch’s Matt Baume brings us full circle as 2012 draws to a close. He takes us back through the year to review the progress the country has made towards marriage equality in 2012. With the amazing strides made in one year we are excited to see what 2013 brings in our movement to full marriage equality and equal human rights.

Richard Adams, an Early Fighter for Gay Marriage, Dies

Richard Adams, pushed for gay marriage forty years before it reached the national attention is has today. Adams passed on December 17th after a brief illness at the age of 65 in his home with Tony Sullivan, his partner of 43 years.

In 1975, four years after they met, the couple heard about a country clerk in Boulder, Colo., Clela Rorex, who was granting marriage licenses to gay couples after learning that there was no Colorado law that directly forbade it.

The two were among the first couples to come to Colorado to marry before Clela Rorex was ordered to stop. After their marriage they sought residency for Sullivan, an Australian. The response was less than desirable, reading ” “You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots.”

Adams fought the courts and filed a the first federal lawsuit seeking gay marriage recognition.

The couple is a subject of the upcoming documentary, “Limited Partnership,” and before Adam’s death they were actually working on a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Adams was an early fighter for gay marriage and a true pioneer. Read more about this story in the original article on Mercury News.