Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules

Maura Dolan reports for the L.A. Times: “A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.”

Trial on Gay-Marriage Ban Starts in California

Marisol Bello reports for USA Today: “As a San Francisco trial on gay marriage began Monday, unusual plans to show the landmark case on YouTube were nixed by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Is My Marriage Gay?

Jennifer Finney Boylan asks in the New York Times, “Can we have a future in which we are more concerned with the love a family has than with the sometimes unanswerable questions of gender and identity? “