Last fall, Craig discounted allegations from a gay-rights activist that he has had homosexual relationships.
Last year, U.K. gay-rights group Stonewall gave Cardinal O'Brien its "Bigot of the Year" award.
They settled on Paul Smith, a well-respected appellate litigator with very little experience in gay-rights litigation.
Some gay-rights attorneys, having been burned a dozen years earlier when, in Bowers v.
So far only two obscurities have declared themselves, a pizza mogul and a gay-rights activist.
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Gay-rights leaders applauded the move but described it as a partial step because it didn't include gay adults.
Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated outside parliament after the bill was passed, calling it a milestone for equality.
Microsoft reversed itself two weeks later, saying it supports gay-rights legislation after all.
Justice Kennedy, seen holding a key vote, wrote both of the court's major gay-rights decisions, most recently in 2003.
Some advocates hoped that Garner might have a career as a gay-rights spokesman.
The move outraged gay-rights groups, which said the Vatican was pinning the blame for the abuse scandal on homosexuality.
The move also shows the growing influence of gay-rights groups and their backers.
Last month, Catholics induced Muslims in Hamtramck to vote down a gay-rights ordinance.
In a special poll, voters in Maine repealed a gay-rights law that was due to go into effect this summer.
In no way does the u-turn signal any softening of Singapore's hardline HIV policy, says gay-rights activist Alex Au Wai Ping.
Gay-rights advocates scored a major and unprecedented victory at the polls yesterday as voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approved same-sex marriage.
Among those supporting Ms. Quinn's candidacy are New York gay-rights groups such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Empire State Pride Agenda.
Gay-rights groups are holding meetings all over New Jersey to organize an army of lobbyists, enough for all 40 of the state's legislative districts.
Gay-rights groups said they were emboldened to take their cause back to the ballot box by research showing American attitudes reached a turning point.
The Scouts have been under pressure from gay-rights activists, who over the past year have gathered more than a million signatures through online petitions to end the ban.
Gay-rights organizations lauded Mr. Portman's decision to change his stance.
It is what I call the pro-gay-rights, tough-on-crime position.
Hillary Clinton sidestepped a question about whether she thinks homosexuality is immoral Wednesday, less than two weeks after telling gay-rights activists she was "proud" to stand by their side.
In the Netherlands, a Turkish-born Islamist, Haci Karacaer, tried to build bridges with the leftists (and gay-rights advocates) of the Dutch Labour party, only to be ostracised by fellow Muslims.
Since then, gay-rights activists have focused on legalizing marriage.
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The cardinal, who has been in that role since 2003, has attracted attention over the years as an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage and has often raised the ire of gay-rights activists.
Gay-rights groups say the plan is inadequate, and that no units should be allowed to discriminate, while some conservative religious leaders and advocacy groups want the ban to stay in place nationwide.
City officials, gay-rights advocates and others joined the march Monday evening to denounce a rise in hate crime reports in a city that generally sees itself as a capital of diversity and tolerance.
The wins at the ballot box, along with those in courts and legislatures, show "irrefutable momentum in favor of the freedom to marry, " said Evan Wolfson, founder of national gay-rights group Freedom to Marry.
It has been called both a "resounding success" by Steve Goldstein, head of the gay-rights group Garden State Equality, and a "bureaucratic nightmare" by James O'Neill, the interim school superintendent of the township of Roxbury.
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