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December 27, 2012
Good Morning America's Sam Champion to marry husband again this weekend

Miami ceremony to be performed by MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts

Sam Champion, weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, officially married Rubem Robierb in New York City last Friday (21 December) but that was only the first step in the wedding march for the couple.

They have headed down to Miami, Florida, where they will have a New Year's Eve ceremony with a more festive, party atmosphere.

Miami is Robierb's hometown and it was at a New Year's Eve party that the couple first met.

The ceremony will be conducted by MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, a fellow newlywed.

December 21, 2012
Good Morning America's Sam Champion marries Rubem Robierb in NYC

A recuperating Robin Roberts reads poem at ceremony

Good Morning America's weather anchor Sam Champion married photographer Rubem Robierb in New York City on Friday (21 December).

November 9, 2012
TV anchor under fire for calling lesbian Rachel Maddow an 'angry young man'

GLAAD and Equality Ohio have started petition against Tricia Macke

Tricia Macke, a news anchor for the Fox affiliate in Cincinatti, Ohio, is under fire for calling MSNBC's lesbian anchor Rachel Maddow an 'angry young man.'

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Equality Ohio have launched a petition calling on Fox 19 to condemn comments made last month by Macke on her her Facebook page.

October 5, 2012
Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion is getting married

Plans to marry partner Rubem Robierb later this year in New York

Sam Champion, the weather anchor on ABC's Good Morning America, is getting married to male partner Rubem Robierb later this year.

The engagement was reported in a New York Times profile on Champion's friend, MSNBC's Thomas Roberts, who married longtime partner Patrick Abner last weekend.

October 5, 2012
Thomas Roberts and new husband talk about the road to their NYC wedding

The MSNBC news anchor and Patrick Abner have been together for 12 years

A profile in The New York Times on MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts and his new husband, Patrick Abner, was initially overshadowed by a paragraph deep in the story where Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion not only comes out publicly, but announces that he is getting married.

October 1, 2012
MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts weds longtime partner Patrick Abner

California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom performs ceremony in NYC

The setting was the rooftop of Manhattan's Gansevoort Hotel on Park Ave. as MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts married his longtime partner, Patrick Abner, in New York City over the weekend.

The couple exchanged their vows in a ceremony Saturday (29 September) performed by Gavin Newsom, the Lieutenant Governor of California and former San Francisco mayor who in 2004 authorized same-sex marriages in that city which were later annulled.

'The BEST night ever with Patrick Abner,' Roberts tweeted after the ceremony. 'Thanks to the most amazing friends and family.'