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Invisible Parents

“Look back, and then look forward…”

This beautifully touching short film shot by UK director Mike Buonaiuto, the award-winning director of the ‘Homecoming’ marriage equality video commissioned by the Coalition for Equal Marriage, questions the inequality of gay families as part of a new campaign called ‘Invisible Parents’ from the activist group AllOut.

The film shows a daughter sharing memories with her two dads, and asks, “Why isn’t their family legally recognized in the majority of Europe?”

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Minnesota: Madonna tells audience to vote “no” on anti-gay amendment

Madonna was at the Twin Cities on Saturday night and asked fans at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul vote “No” on Minnesota’s anti-gay marriage amendment this Tuesday.

Said Madonna: “Vote ‘no’ on the marriage amendment. Vote ‘no’ on the marriage amendment. Why? Why? Because we are a democracy and we should have the freedom to choose who we want to marry. Thank you very much. Did you hear what I said? Are you gonna vote no? Are you gonna vote no? Are you gonna vote no?”

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Maine: GOP lawmaker regrets voting against marriage equality

A Republican lawmaker in Maine who voted against marriage equality while in office in 2009 now describes that decision as a “chicken thing for me to do.”

Stacey Fitts is appearing in ads throughout the state calling on others to take a more courageous stand than he did when lawmakers voted on marriage equality in 2009, and then when the state’s voters vetoed the law. He sat on the sidelines during the debate despite leaning pro-equality.

“As I watched that evolve, it became clear that I wasn’t in support of the veto effort,” he told the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. “And that I wouldn’t necessarily take a role — which, looking back, probably was another chicken thing for me to do.”

Fitts said he was secretly pleased marriage equality had passed through the legislature, and he told MPBN he’d voted against it only because he was following the party line.

In a television ad from Mainers United for Marriage released earlier this month, Fitts is making it clear he’s changed his mind and that he hopes other voters have too. “I voted against same-sex marriage in 2009, but I know some gay people and I’ve talked with them and with my family,” he said in the ad, continuing, “I don’t believe the government should tell anybody who they can love or who they can marry.”

Via the Advocate