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LGBT activists and groups overall are cheering Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s turnaround and support for marriage equality.

Former First Lady Laura Bush announced Wednesday that she wants to be removed from a gay marriage ad campaign that uses a clip of her on CNN supporting marriage equality.

After the chairman for Illinois’ GOP Party came out to support marriage equality, he has been slammed by fellow Republicans, some of whom are calling for his resignation.

Although Paul Singer support same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, the Wall Street hedge-fund manager has been influential with the GOP and is determined to get Mitt Romney elected this November.

Young Conservative for the Freedom to Marry, an outgrowth of Freedom to Marry, was launched last month to seek support for marriage equality among a demographic that mainstream gay rights groups may be overlooking.

The anti-gay marriage group Family Research Council has sent out a fundraising email acknowledging that it is losing ground in the upper echelons of the Republican Party.

A new twist in the unfolding history of same-sex family parity shows that not all conservatives in Iowa reject marriage equality.