Iran Larios wears a wedding dress as he protests outside the East Los Angeles Recorder Office in Los Angeles, May 26, 2009. California's supreme court backed a ban on gay marriage on Tuesday, upholding a voter-approved proposition defining marriage as between a man and a woman, but said the marriages last year of 18,000 same sex couples were still legal. Reuters Pictures 8 months ago

Iran Larios wears a wedding dress as he protests outside the East Los Angeles Recorder Office in Los Angeles, May 26, 2009. California's supreme court backed a ban on gay marriage on Tuesday, upholding a voter-approved proposition defining marriage as between a man and a woman, but said the marriages last year of 18,000 same sex couples were still legal.

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  1. Mexico City's Mayor Marcelo Ebrard leaves the news room at City Hall after a news conference in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Ebrard declared that he will fight against Mexican federal prosecutors who announced a day earlier that they will try to overturn Mexico City's gay marriage law, which allows same-sex couples to adopt children, on the grounds it violates the constitution.
  2. Mexico City's Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, right, speaks during a news conference in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Ebrard declared that he will fight against Mexican federal prosecutors who announced a day earlier that they will try to overturn Mexico City's gay marriage law, which allows same-sex couples to adopt children, on the grounds it violates the constitution.
  3. Irina Fyet (front), representing lesbian couple Irina Shepitko and herself, attends a hearing at Moscow City Court January 21, 2010. The lesbian couple in 2009 attempted to register for Russia's first gay marriage and, after receiving a rejection letter, brought the case into court.
  4. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, left, hugs his daughter Lisa as her wife Meaghan Yaple, right, watches after a news conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Sanders took the witness stand on behalf of two same-sex couples suing to overturn Proposition 8, California's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
  5. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders speaks during a news conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Mayor Jerry Sanders took the witness stand on behalf of two same-sex couples suing to overturn Proposition 8, California's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
  6. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, center, speaks at a news conference next to his daughter Lisa in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. Mayor Jerry Sanders took the witness stand on behalf of two same-sex couples suing to overturn Proposition 8, California's voter-approved gay marriage ban. Lisa Sanders is married to Meaghan Yaple. At left is San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
  7. Andrew Pugno, lead counsel for Protectmarriage.com, speaks at news conference in San Francisco, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. San Diego Mayor Sanders took the witness stand on behalf of two same-sex couples suing to overturn Proposition 8, California's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
  8. State Rep. David Bates, R-Windham, announces his plans for a grass-roots effort to challenge New Hampshire's new gay marriage law by starting a petition drive to get the issue to voters at town meetings this spring during a news conference in Concord, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010.
  9. Couples, including 2nd and 3rd from left respectively, Cheli Duclos and Lisa Duclos both of Manchester, N.H. wait with other couples, families and friends, to be wed on steps of New Hampshire's State Capitol New Year's Eve as the historic Marriage Equality law takes effect at midnight in Concord, N.H., January 1, 2010. New Hampshire same sex couples can now officially marry or convert their vows from a civil union to a state-recognized marriage. New Hampshire joins Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and Iowa in allowing gay marriage in a move that reflects the state's changing demographics from reliably Republican and conservative to younger and more liberal.
  10. Olin Burkhart, center left, and Carl Burkhart, center right, both of Salem, N.H., wed on steps of New Hampshire's State Capitol Jan. 1, 2010 as the historic Marriage Equality law takes effect in Concord, N.H. New Hampshire same sex couples can now officially marry or convert their vows from a civil union to a state-recognized marriage.
  11. Couples wait to be wed on steps of New Hampshire's State Capitol New Year's Eve as the historic Marriage Equality law takes effect at midnight in Concord, N.H., January 1, 2010. New Hampshire same sex couples can now officially marry or convert their vows from a civil union to a state-recognized marriage.
  12. Alex Freyre, left, is kissed by his partner Jose Maria Di Bello at a news conference in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009. Di Bello and Freyre married Monday in Ushuaia in southern Argentina, which is first gay marriage in Latin America. The couple, both HIV positive, wear large red ribbons around their necks in solidarity with other people living with HIV. (AP Photo.
  13. Alex Freyre, left, holds hands with his partner Jose Maria Di Bello as they give a press conference in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009. Di Bello and Freyre married Monday in Ushuaia in southern Argentina, which is the first gay marriage in Latin America. The couple, HIV positive, wear large red ribbons in solidarity with other people living with HIV. (AP Photo.
  14. Jose Maria Di Bello (C) and his partner Alex Freyre (3rd R) sit in front of a judge as they get married at a government's registry office in Ushuaia, December 28, 2009. Di Bello and Freyre wed in Latin America's first same-sex marriage on Monday in the southern city of Ushuaia, despite a court ruling earlier this month in the capital city of Buenos Aires that blocked the wedding.
  15. Jose Maria Di Bello (L) and his partner Alex Freyre kiss as they get married at a government's registry office in Ushuaia, December 28, 2009. Di Bello and Freyre wed in Latin America's first same-sex marriage on Monday in the southern city of Ushuaia, despite a court ruling earlier this month in the capital city of Buenos Aires that blocked the wedding.
  16. Jose Maria Di Bello (L) looks at his partner Alex Freyre during a news conference after learning they could not get married at a government's registry office in Buenos Aires in this December 1, 2009 file photo. Di Bello and Freyre wed in Latin America's first same-sex marriage on December 28, 2009 in the southern city of Ushuaia, despite a court ruling earlier this month in the capital city of Buenos Aires that blocked the wedding.

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