Many in the gay and lesbian community hoped to celebrate the victory of Barack Obama, but instead of partying they have taken to the streets in fury after California voted to reverse gay marriage.

许多同性恋人士都希望能为巴拉克·奥巴马的胜利而欢呼庆祝，但在加州通过禁止同性结婚提案之后，狂怒的他们走上了街头，而不是举行庆祝派对。

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He said he would support civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, as well as letting individual states determine if marriage between gay and lesbian couples should be legalized.

他说本人将支持同性恋者的民事结合，并促使各州就同性婚姻的合法性问题做出表态。

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Kurdek says in a 1998 Journal of Marriage and the Family paper that even though gay and lesbian relationships end more often than straight marriages, they don't degrade any faster.

Kurdek在发表于1998年《婚姻与家庭快报》的论文中提到，即使同志关系结束的比异性恋婚姻更加频繁，他们的关系并不是退化的更快。

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As the backlash grew, opponents of gay and lesbian marriage, including many religious conservatives, moved quickly to put amendments on state ballots to short-circuit similar rulings from courts sympathetic to the argument that restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples was discriminatory.

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Opponents of gay and lesbian marriage are also pushing a federal constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage nationwide, though it failed to gain the needed two-thirds majority to pass when it came up for votes in both the House and Senate.

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Even so, perspectives are also changing among gay and lesbian couples for whom marriage was once out of reach.

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