I’ve been collecting links to coverage of Vermont’s historic gay marriage vote yesterday. Here are some I think are worth sharing.

Photographer Karen Pike shot an incredible series of portraits at the Statehouse yesterday. This one shows a group of supporters, including my friend Hannah Hauser, waiting for the vote tally. If you’re a gay marriage supporter, do yourself a favor and check these out.

“Fair Game” columnist Shay Totten has a new column out today, which includes his thoughts on the vote yesterday. Shay was Twittering from the Statehouse and reported the vote as it happened.

Lauren Ober of the Burlington Free Press reports that Representative Sonny Audette (D-South Burlington) was home sick for the vote yesterday. He was the only one who missed it.

The Freeps’ Terri Hallenbeck penned this piece about the swing votes who enabled the override.

Lots of Vermonters — including the governor — shared their reactions to the news on yesterday’s Vermont Edition on VPR.

Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic compiled a nice summary of national reactions to the vote.

John Odum at Green Mountain Daily speculates on the political implications of yesterday’s vote.

Got more links for me? Please post them in the comments thread.

This article appears in Apr 8-14, 2009.

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3 replies on “More Marriage Media”

  1. Great links, thanks for sharing! It might be worth noting that the #vtfreetomarry hashtag was a top trending topic on Twitter yesterday after the veto override vote. This was in no small part because of Shay Totten’s excellent coverage via Twitter! There were hundreds of tweets using the #vtfreetomarry hashtag with reactions from Vermonters and people around the world.

  2. Good comment from Alan Dershowitz, interviewed on NPR this morning about prospects for marriage equality outside New England. He favors the government getting out of the “sanctity of marriage” business altogether, making civil marriage open to everyone and letting religious institutions bless religious marriages as they see fit. Dershowitz says, “The government doesn’t perform circumcisions or baptisms, so why should it be involved with religious weddings?”

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