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24 May 2012
Poll: Opposition to equal marriage, especially black voters, hits record low after Obama’s support 31 Opposition to equal marriage has fallen to a record low, and that this change is connected to President Obama's endorsement of the measure, a new poll by Washington Post and ABC News finds.
24 May 2012
Video: Obama campaign releases LGBT manifesto 18 In a sign that, having come out for equal marriage, President Obama is making LGBT rights one of the pillars of his campaign for re-election, a new video has been released that touts his gay rights record for the past for years, and a manifesto for the next term.
15 May 2012
Obama: Extending marriage to gay couples will ‘strengthen families’ 48 President Barack Obama has continued to speak out in favour of equal marriage while attending a celebrity laden fund-raiser in New York.
13 May 2012
Newsweek names Obama as the first ‘gay’ president 76 Within days of President Obama formally declaring his support for equal marriage, the American magazine Newsweek has named him the first 'gay' president in its front cover.
11 May 2012
Poll: 51% of Americans agree with Obama’s support of equal marriage 13 More than half of Americans have said that they approve of President Obama's support for equal marriage, though 60% of the respondents also said that this announcement would have no bearing on their voting decisions, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll released this evening.
11 May 2012
Bristol Palin criticises Obama for listening to children on marriage 84 Bristol Palin, daughter of former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has criticised Barack Obama for letting his children's views contribute to his support of marriage for gay couples.
9 May 2012
Reactions to Obama’s endorsement of equal marriage begin to flow 85 Politicians and gay rights activists have begun to react to President Obama's announcement today that he supports equal marriage for same-sex couples.
9 May 2012
Breaking News: President Obama confirms support for equal marriage 117 Barack Obama, the president of the United States, has announced in an interview with ABC News that he thinks gay couples should have the same legal right to marry as heterosexual couples.
29 April 2012
Video: President Obama and Jimmy Kimmel make gay-friendly jokes at reception 12 During the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner yesterday, President Obama said that if his first term saw the repeal of the infamous 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, the second term would introduce a policy called 'It's Raining Men.'
28 April 2012
Ricky Martin to host Obama fundraiser 5 The pop singer Ricky Martin, who came out as gay two years ago, has said that he will host a fundraising event for US President Barack Obama over his support for LGBT rights.
24 April 2012
President Obama remembers gay victims of the Holocaust 30 During a speech at the US Holocaust Museum, to mark Yom HaShoah, or the Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Obama referred directly to the gay victims of Nazi persecution, pleading that the task of today's generation is for the atrocities of the genocide should occur "never again."
15 April 2012
Gay rights activists angry at Obama’s refusal to sign anti-discrimination order 30 LGBT activists have reacted angrily to President Obama's decision not to sign an executive order that would have outlawed workplace discrimination on the grounds of sexuality and gender identity.
6 April 2012
Gay couple to use White House Easter event to confront Obama 6 A gay couple plan to ask President Obama to sign an executive order banning workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation at Monday’s annual Easter Egg roll, which takes place on the White House lawn.
28 March 2012
US government demands fast-track of gay rights case 14 This week, the US government requested that a federal appeals court hasten its review of a San Francisco gay rights case and consider harsher scrutiny for discriminatory laws around sexual orientation, including a standard that could legalise same-sex marriage.
27 March 2012
Secret documents reveal anti-gay marriage group planned to divide gay and black voters 48 Confidential documents made public in a court in the state of Maine today revealed the leading opponents of same-sex marriage planned to defeat campaigns by "fanning the hostility" between black and gay voters and by casting President Obama as a radical enemy of marriage.

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