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A committee in Dallas County, Texas, which includes the City of Dallas approved giving the domestic partners of unmarried couples medical benefits when one partner works for the county.

A high ranking official at Metro-North Railorad is accused of getting her partner a job with the mega-agency that runs the New York area’s buses, subways and trains without revealing that they were in a relationship .

Does President Obama’s admission that he has ’evolved’ on gay marriage point to an incremental approach, with civil unions serving as a way station? Or have we waited too long for full equality to accept half a loaf, even temporarily?

An anti-gay evangelical pastor in El Paso, Texas, has taken his war on same-sex families to the city by leading a push to recall officials who favored an ordinance for health benefits to the domestic partners of two gay city employees.

A ballot initiative promoted by anti-gay groups in North Carolina would not only deny gay and lesbian families marriage if approved by voters; it would also remove civil unions and domestic partnerships from the realm of legal possibility in the state.

Milwaukee County, in the state of Wisconsin, is poised to extend benefits to the families of gay and lesbian public employees.

A judge ruled Monday that Wisconsin’s domestic partnership registry does not violate the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage - a major victory for the state’s largest gay rights group.

Gov. Scott Walker has told a judge he wants to stop defending Wisconsin’s domestic partner registry in court because he doesn’t believe it’s constitutional.

A newly enacted law in Washington state recognizes domestic partnerships granted in other jurisdictions, though it reduces same-gender marriages to the level of domestic partnerships as well.

Activists in Utah, Virginia and Florida look to gain legislative victories in 2011 through new statewide employment protections, domestic partnerships and other non-marriage forms of relationship recognition.