Sinjoyla Townsend, of Washington, holds up her ticket as the first couple at Superior Court to obtain a marriage license after the District of Columbia legalized gay marriage in Washington, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Elizabeth Chase, left and Kate Baldridge, of Fresno, California, an engaged same-sex couple hoping to marry, listen to a rally outside of the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage got under way Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Lesbian couple Shelly Bailes, left, Ellen Pontac, right, who were married in 2008, laugh during a rally in front of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way in San Francisco on Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
In this photo distributed by the press office of Tierra del Fuego government, Alex Freyre, right, and his partner Jose Maria Di Bello, both HIV positive, show their wedding certificate after their marriage at the civil registry of Ushuaia, in southern Argentina, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. The couple’s union is the first gay marriage in Latin America. (AP Photo/Government of Tierra del Fuego)
Kathy Stickel holds a sign while joining supporters who turned out for a gay-rights supporter rally the day before election day in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Gay marriage has lost in every single state in which it has been put to a popular vote. Come Election Day, gay-rights supporters are hoping to make Maine the exception. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
Lesbian couples stand in front of Argentina’s National Congress gathering signatures to support a possible law bill on gay marriage in Buenos Aires, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Gay and lesbian activists think Argentina is ready to become Latin America’s first nation to legalize gay marriage and they’ve got a growing number of supporters in Congress, which opened debate Thursday on whether to change dozens of laws that define marriage as a union between a “man and woman.” The sign atop reads, in Spanish, “Marriage Law: The same rights with the same names.”
