Gay marriage supporter Danielle Gannon of Albany, N.Y., holds signs and chants in a hallway at the Capitol in Albany on June 24. Following the latest marathon session on Thursday, the Senate Republican majority plans to again take up a gay marriage bill that could be pivotal moment in the national gay rights movement.

A bird is seen behind barbed wire fences in Fort 13 of the Jilava jail in Jilava, Romania, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Dozens of former political prisoners gathered on Human Rights Day to commemorate the anti-communist fighters, parachuted by United States air force planes in the 1950s to organize a resistance movement, who were detained and executed in 1953 at the Jilava jail.

Recording artist Lady Gaga speaks at a rally in support of repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay service members, in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010.

Civil rights photojournalist and "photo historian" Ernest C. Withers talks about his picture of Rev. Martin Luther King, right, during a presentation of images from his 70 year career, at a special award ceremony at Parsons School of Design in New York, Monday, Feb. 14, 2005. Withers, 83, who lived in his hometown of Memphis,Tenn., received the National Association of Black Journalist's Trailblazer Award for a lifetime achievement in photojournalism. Many historians credit Withers' photographs of the Emmett Till trial as the spark that ignited the civil rights movement.

Children huddle in the entrance of a tent during 1960 in Tent City near Somerville, Tenn. Tent City was home to black sharecroppers who were kicked-off white-owned lands in 1960 because blacks were registering to vote. Pipe at top is from a stove in the tent.