Rosie O'Donnell confirmed to USA Today that her relationship with her wife of five years, Kelli, is on the rocks and they may break up. "Kelli and I love each other very much and we are working on our issues. Those are the only words I am ever going to say. Ever," Rosie said on Tuesday. They have four children.

Rosie and Kelli, a former Nickelodeon executive, have been together since 1997, and their relationship has been marked several times over the years by rumors of a split. Back in 2003, The National Enquirer reported the Kelli left Rosie after … Read More

Cynthia Nixon and her longtime girlfriend, Christine Marinoni, have gotten engaged, The Insider reports. The Sex and the City star announced their plans to marry at a rally for marriage equality on Sunday in New York. Nixon and Marinoni have been together since 2003, when Nixon and boyfriend Danny Mozes, the father of her two children, split up.

Governor David Paterson has introduced a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York. If it's passed the state will join Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Iowa in extending marriage equality to all … Read More

Wanda Sykes, who brought the house down at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, didn't show a bit of the exhaustion she must have been feeling. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star's wife of seven months, Alexandra, gave birth to fraternal twins on April 27, and we have heard that two-week-old babies can be a lot of work, so we now have even more respect for the splendid performance she turned in at the dinner.

Wanda and Alex named their new son Lucas Claude and daughter Olivia Lou, which are super adorable and normal baby names that … Read More

Stars, they’re just like us! Ever wonder if star couples argue over housekeeping details? Yep, they do. In a forthcoming interview with Ladies’ Home Journal (out March 10) Portia de Rossi comes clean on the little things she does that make Ellen DeGeneres slightly crazy. Evidently, it comes down to a messy tea habit. Portia explains, "I do leave half-finished beverages everywhere.  I usually have three cups of tea going at once. I'm Australian. That's what we do. I was going to thank her in our vows, for picking up all the glasses -- and say that … Read More

Del Martin (seated) and Phyllis Lyon were the first couple to wed under California's most recent same-sex marriage ruling, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. Martin, 87, and Lyon, 83, didn't waste any time. They wed at 5:01 pm last night, the first moments that the Supreme Court ruling took effect.

The brides wore matching pastel pantsuits. But more than a like-mindedness for fashion, these two also share a place in same-sex rights history. They founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, the first national lesbian organization. Lyon and Martin continued to pioneer gay rights issues, all the … Read More

According to the Miami Herald, it is a good day indeed to be gay in California. Seriously, California gays haven't been this excited since that first guy matched short shorts with roller blades. The California Supreme Court said that domestic partnership is not an acceptable substitute for marriage and by a 4 to 3 margin ruled that gays should be able to get hitched.

As you would expect, some anti-gay marriage groups are pretty unhappy about this. They pledge to get enough signatures to put a constitutional ban on the fall legislative docket. The Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has twice … Read More

According to the National Post, Monroe County in New York is appealing a recent ruling that gay marriages sanctified in Canada count in the US. The argument is that New Yorkers shouldn’t have their laws dictated to them by Canadians. The Coalition to Save Marriage in New York feels that the courts bypassed democratic process by declaring something to be so.

New York’s law states that a marriage is defined as between one man and one woman. And we’re guessing that conservatives have two arguments: 1) Americans shouldn’t be able to go somewhere that has … Read More