Election Results: Maine Loses, Washington State Wins

I'm afraid it's mixed news tonight for gay folks in the U.S. as voters in Maine — where the blatantly anti-gay Catholic church lobbied intensely against gay-marriage — stripped gays and lesbians in that state of the right to marry.

Meanwhile in Washington state, the recently passed "everything but marriage" domestic partner law has been called in favor of pro-gay forces. I happen to live in Washington state and for many reasons, opponents were never able to gain much traction in trying to repeal the law.

In other positive news, Kalamazoo, Michigan voted to uphold that city's anti-discrimination law while Chapel Hill, North Carolina elected a gay mayor and in Houston, Texas, lesbian mayoral candidate Gena Locke advanced to a run-off to be that city's next mayor.