Same-sex couples exchanged vows Wednesday for the first time in Connecticut amid cheers and tears of joy, while gay activists planned protests across the country over the vote that took away their right to marry in California.

This Saturday, Nov. 15, is a national day of protest against Prop 8, and gays and lesbians across the country will be joined by some famous faces in the fight for equal marriage rights.

Sarah Palin says she supports a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Two weeks to go, and already the fight over the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in California is the costliest campaign about a social issue in U.S. history.

Homosexual copulations are common in insects, where they pose the same conundrum as in mammals: what evolutionary advantage, if any, might such apparently fruitless activity provide?