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How long does it take to know you’ve found the one? A couple years? A few seconds? Well, one couple says it only took them two months. 29-year-old Ricky Zhang and 24-year-old Zak Liu decided to get married January 12 after meeting only two months earlier. “Many people don’t believe in true love at the first sight,” said Ricky to DNA, “But, luckily, we found it.” On top of that, they also believe they are the first Chinese Gay couple to get...

Police allegedly told the couple they wouldn't protect them from mob violence. Earlier this month, a gay Russian couple who wed in Denmark had their marriage recognized at home, thanks to a loophole in the law regulating the recognition of foreign marriages. But after the news broke, authorities declared their passports invalid and opened an administrative case against them for “intentionally defacing an official document.” Now Pavel Stotsko and Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky have fled Russia for fear of further reprisal. Stotsko and Voitsekhovsky...

Officials are already working to amend Russian family law. Thanks to a loophole, a pair of gay newlyweds have “accidentally” become the first same-sex couple to have their marriage legally recognized by Russia, the Moscow Times reports. Returning home after getting married January 4 in Copenhagen, Russian citizens Eugene Wojciechowski and Pavel Stotsko took their notarized Danish registration forms to the Moscow registry office in an attempt to get the updated marriage page of their passports stamped. The newlyweds told Russia’s Rain...

A gay couple filed a lawsuit this week after one of their twins was denied US citizenship. The twins, Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks were born to the same surrogate mother using sperm from each of their dads. Andrew, who has dual Canadian-American citizenship and Israeli-born Elad got married in Canada in 2011 and decided they both wanted a child genetically related to them. But their son Ethan has become a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Monday which seeks for him to...

The judge described the gesture as "unwise." A man convicted of killing a middle-aged gay couple in Florida showed his lack of remorse by flipping their loved ones the finger in open court. In November, Peter Avsenew was convicted of the 2010 murders of Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Adams, a gay couple he had met on Craigslist. After getting invited into their home in LGBT-friendly Wilton Manors, Florida, the 32-year-old escort killed both men, then stole their cash, car and...

EXCLUSIVE: 'The outpouring of love is overwhelming' Daniel Hall and Vincent Franchino tell GSN Helicopter pilots Daniel Hall and Vincent Franchino have commented on the reaction to their world-first wedding at West Point. West Point is a military academy located in West Point, New York, Orange County. Speaking to Gay Star News, the pair said they were delighted with the positive response to the story. Daniel, 30, told us: ‘Our wedding day meant so much to us, in many ways it was the...

"The rules that regulate marriage in Costa Rica ... remain in force." Despite the approval of the president and a top human rights court, the first same-sex marriage in Costa Rica hit a stumbling block this week when notaries refused to recognize it until the country’s laws were officially changed. After the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of equal marriage earlier this month, Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis directed government agencies to follow its ruling and recognize...

Is there anything hotter than two Army men getting married? Capt. Daniel Hall, 30, and Capt. Vinny Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots, were the first active-duty, same-sex couple to say "I do" at West Point last weekend, the New York Times reported. The couple met in 2009 at a time when the military essentially barred the LGBT community from being out due to former President Bill Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. According to Capt. Hall, It’s really frustrating when two people...

A Baltimore model and non-profit founder has seen his tweet go viral and spark huge online debate A US model and community activist has seen one of his tweets go viral in the last two days. Baltimore-based Shahem McLaurin posted two images to Twitter with his boyfriend, Quincy. In one of the images, Quincy gives him a peck on the cheek. There are love hearts around their heads. The simple message accompanying the photos said, ‘I can’t wait to marry this boy.’ The...

Now they're suing the company Stephen Heasley and Andrew Borg were looking forward to their September wedding in Pennsylvania. Then they received a rude awakening in the form of homophobic pamphlets. The pair, who currently live in Australia, ordered the pamphlets from Massachusetts company Vistaprint. The cards were supposed to have the order of events, members of the wedding party, and lyrics to the Above & Beyond song Treasure. Instead, they featured fire-and-brimstone religious imagery and words. One of them read: ‘Satan knows...

"The pamphlets plainly sent to threaten and attack Mr. Heasley and Mr. Borg because they are gay." Your wedding is a big day, so it’s only natural to be nervous: Maybe the photographer doesn’t show up, or your brother forgets the rings. Programs that compare your relationship to the Devil’s temptation? Not even a Bridezilla could predict that. But that’s just what happened to a gay couple who got married in rural Pennsylvania last September. Stephen Heasley, 39, and Andrew Borg,...

A Fort Lauderdale man who shot a couple to death in 2010 was sentenced to death Thursday afternoon. Peter Avsenew, 33, faced either a life sentence or the death penalty. During closing arguments, prosecutors showed the Broward jury photos of 52-year-old Stephen Adams and 47-year-old Kevin Powell shot dead inside their Wilton Manors home. “I have no regrets in my life and I am proud of the decisions I've made. No one really knows what happened that day. Everyone can speculate...

“It is the most important day of our lives," says Stephen Henderson. After Bermuda passed marriage equality in spring 2017, cruise ship with holdings in the country began to offer same-sex wedding packages at sea. But when Parliament repealed same-sex marriage barely six months later, it left gay couples high and dry. Stephen Henderson and Stuart Andrews booked passage with P&O Cruises last summer so they could have their July 22, 2019 wedding on a boat in the Bay of Biscay....

Officials initially said one of the men threw something at an air steward – something the couple deny Two men from Iceland have been left upset and demanding answers after being escorted from a US plane before departure. Hafsteinn Himinljómi Regínuson is better known in Iceland as his drag persona, Ragna Rök. He was traveling in the US over the holidays with his US-born boyfriend, James McDaniel. The couple were booked on a Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Alabama on 22...