South:
With 53 percent of the vote, Annise Parker, Houston’s openly gay City Controller, has been elected the city’s next mayor. In her brief victory speech, she noted:
This election has changed the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, just as this election is about transforming Houstonians’ lives for the better.
West:
Jesse McKinely reports in today’s New York Times about marketing firms whose services have been procured in recent elections where the question of equal marriage was on the line.
A few of the heavier hitters include companies Mar/Com Services Inc., Schubert Flint Public Affairs, and Criswell Associates – corporate monikers that apparently overlap, and some of which appear to run with post-office-box office operations.
East:
Nancy Polikoff, a professor at the American University Washington College of Law, observes on washingtonpost.com that for Catholic Charities of D.C. and its archdiocese,
… it’s time for widespread acknowledgment that marriage equality in the District creates no justification for Catholic Charities to sever its contractual relationship with the city.