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  • Ali Vanderzanden, with Equality Maine, hugs a friend before a Thursday news conference at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine, at which a bid to legalize gay marriage in Maine was launched. (Associated Press)

    Mainers to vote on gay marriage again

    Gay-rights activists pledged Thursday to reclaim Maine as a gay-marriage state by asking voters to vote in November for a ballot measure legalizing same-sex nuptials.


  • **FILE** The Rev. Michael Gray, a United Methodist pastor in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, speaks June 30, 2011, at a news conference in Lewiston, Maine, where it was announced that gay-marriage supporters are laying the groundwork for another referendum on same-sex marriage in the state. (Associated Press)

    Gay-marriage supporters plan Maine referendum

    Gay-marriage supporters began laying the groundwork Thursday for another referendum on the issue, hoping to build on momentum from New York, which last week became the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage.


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