SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — At eastern North Carolina's premier election-season barbecue, Republicans revved up thousands of conservatives before U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis took the stage by reminding them the state's gay marriage ban they approved two years ago has been struck down.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Gov. Nikki Haley's Democratic challenger says South Carolina should `pause' in defending a lawsuit trying to overturn the state's gay marriage ban.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) - After gay couples received marriage licenses during the weekend in Carroll County, the local clerk’s office says it will now just issue licenses that include a man and a woman.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal appeals court has dismissed the National Organization for Marriage's effort to appeal an Oregon court ruling that allows same sex marriage.

Erasure, mislabeling, and utter dismissal are some of the greatest challenges to bisexual visibility.

Actress and co-host of the CBS daytime show, “The Talk,” Sara Gilbert married music producer Linda Perry Sunday, nearly a year after Gilbert announced their engagement last April. Gilbert and Perry, who’ve been together since late 2011, are currently on their honeymoon, according to US Magazine.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A legal challenge to Missouri's gay marriage ban returns to court in St. Louis.

State bans on same-sex marriages have been falling around the country since last summer, when the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to recognize state-sanctioned gay marriages. The remaining state bans all face legal challenges to overturn them, and a federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati will hear arguments Wednesday on cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

State bans on same-sex marriages have been falling around the country since summer 2013, when the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to recognize state-sanctioned gay marriages. The remaining state bans all face legal challenges, and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will hear arguments Tuesday on cases from Indiana and Wisconsin.

Gay rights activists hope a "Big, Gay 'I Do'" wedding celebration in Charleston shows the dollars South Carolina's businesses are losing to the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

In an extraordinary interview, Florida’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist apologized last month for having supported efforts to ban on same-sex marriage on the ballot in that state in 2008.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ With a mix of elegance and irreverence, only celebrity chef Art Smith could round up his famous chef buddies, a sea of white orchids and a drag queen DJ to pull off a wedding ceremony Saturday for more than two dozen same-sex couples on Miami Beach.

MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court in Chicago will hear arguments in challenges of gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana's on Aug. 13.

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie says it shouldn't be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether states allow gay marriage.

When it comes to the debate on same-sex marriage, Chris Christie seems to want to have his cake and eat it too.

SYLACAUGA, Ala. (AP) — Prayers said and the closing hymn sung, tea-drinking churchgoers fill Marble City Grill for Sunday lunch.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — When Jazmin Elizondo Arias was born in 1991, someone goofed and noted on her birth certificate that she was male.

After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work as soon as Friday to face another day of reckoning.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Travis County says it won't begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, despite a county probate judge's ruling that declared the Texas ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) _ Some employees in the Yellowstone County clerk's office have objected to processing same-sex wedding licenses and as a result aren't being asked to do so for the time being.

TULSA (AP) — The pace of same-sex couples requesting marriage licenses has slowed a bit, court clerks around Oklahoma said Tuesday, a day after gay marriage became legal in the conservative state.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- During a testy interview with NPR on Thursday, Hillary Clinton stood behind her role as secretary of state and her upbringing as a way to defend the fact that she was not publicly supportive of same-sex marriage until 2013.

LAS VEGAS -- When the Democratic candidates for president take the stage for their first debate this week in Nevada, they'll do so in a state that serves as a reminder of why Hillary Rodham Clinton is the front-runner for the nomination.

(CNN) -- Here's some background information about same-sex marriage in the United States and worldwide.

(CNN) -- Here's some background information about same-sex marriage in the United States and worldwide.

(CNN) -- Here's some background information about same-sex marriage in the United States (with timeline,) and worldwide.

Denver, CO (KDVR) -- The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

In a moving op-ed piece for Ireland's Sunday World magazine, Irish actor Colin Farrell opens up about his openly gay brother, defending same-sex marriage in the country, ABC News reports.