June 26 was significant as the US Supreme Court stuck down the key part of DOMA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defens.....f_Marriage_Act

And what this means is that same sex couples can get government benefits. Such as in the case of the military it will mean that if someone who is in the military happens to be married to someone of the same sex and he or she dies, that the military will now acknowledge that marriage and the surviving partner will get the same benefits that everyone else who is in a heterosexual marriage would get if the one they were married to dies in the military. It also means that the IRS will no longer charge inheritance tax to someone that was in a same sex marriage when their partner dies and they inherit the others stuff. There are other great things that will came from what Supreme Court did o this.

I also just want to say that what bothers me the most about about all this is how many antigay people use the bible to justify being against homosexuality. I could spend a while making a long paragraph about how dumb the whole antigay stuff is, but because I am tired now, I wont right now.

Last I will mention, one thing this striking down of DOMA does that is of interest internationally is that it leads the way for in the future the possibility that anyone who is gay in the US with a partner outside the US to bring their same sex partner over to the US to get married, and relatively easily get their partner to become a legal US citizen.

I might later come back and edit this to make it sound better and make some additions to it.