123,000 Same-Sex Couples Said 'I Do' Since Supreme Court Ruling (Video)

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123,000 Same-Sex Couples Said 'I Do' Since Supreme Court Ruling 
Gallup says the proportion of cohabiting same-sex couples who are married has increased from 38 percent to 49 percent in the one year since the marriage equality ruling.
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The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans staffer in any major TV network newsroom. As the first out transgender editor at The Advocate, the native New Yorker continues her 30-year media career, in which she has earned more than a dozen awards, including two Emmys. With the blessing of her three children, Dawn retains the most important job title she's ever held: Dad.
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123,000 Same-Sex Couples Said 'I Do' Since Supreme Court Ruling

Gallup says the proportion of cohabiting same-sex couples who are married has increased from 38 percent to 49 percent in the one year since the marriage equality ruling.

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Gallup says the proportion of cohabiting same-sex couples who are married has increased from 38 percent to 49 percent in the one year since the marriage equality ruling.

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Hungary had banned public LGBTQ+ events before the parade.

The nurse shot and killed by federal agents "touched more lives than he probably ever realized," said his sister Micayla Pretti.

Administration officials want the university to apologize to women athletes, ban trans women, and more.

The rock legend said he wrote 'Streets of Minneapolis' on Saturday following Pretti's killing.

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After days of outrage, two federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security, who shot and killed the ICU nurse, have been sidelined.

Stella Carlson was on her way to a church event when she encountered Alex Pretti and the DHS agents who would kill him.

These celebrities brought the sex appeal in their steamy videos this year.

"So many things feel so insane, so not-normal, and it feels like no one is addressing it," drag queen Lauren Banall told PRIDE.

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