Today the Delaware senate passed marriage equality with a vote of 12-9.
The Delaware House of Representatives is expected to vote on marriage equality today.
With the ringing in of the new year, both the first state and the 50th state celebrated new civil union laws for lesbian and gay couples.
More than 1,500 New Yorkers gathered today in Manhattan to mourn the death of a 32 year-old gay man, who was shot down on Friday just blocks away from the historic Stonewall Inn in an apparent act of anti-gay bias.
