Tag: gay couple

"We're stuck in this mental representation of domestic violence as a female victim and a male perpetrator." New research shows that nearly half of all men in same-sex relationships have experienced some type of abuse at the hands of their partner, HealthDay News reports. The study, published in the July issue of the American Journal of Men’s Health, surveyed 320 men in 160 couples. Results show that 46% reported some type of partner abuse in the last year, including physical or...

A florist in Avon, Indiana, refused to sell wedding flowers to a gay couple according to one of the men. David Elliott says he and his partner, Daniel Collins, were refused service when the shop owner realized the wedding didn’t include a bride. Elliott posted on Facebook, “This morning I went in to look at flowers for my upcoming wedding. I was told to speak with the owner. When she came forward she asked me the date of my wedding. I told...

Elvis Duran, who has been one of the most popular radio personalities over the past 20 years, has met and interviewed some of the biggest stars in Hollywood over his time on air. Something much more special happened to him outside of his job on Friday, as he got engaged to his partner of nearly eight years! His now fiancé, Alex Carr, shared a video of him getting down on one knee which shocked the heck out of Elvis while...

Who says romance is dead? Right after shooting a big group scene, porn star Brian Bonds turned to his very surprised boyfriend, Mason Lear, and asked for his hand in marriage. According to Gay Star News, Bonds proclaimed, “Well, this is the end of our tour and I can say that this was probably the best day that ever happened between us. And I’d love to do it over and over again, but there is one difference that I want. I want...

In April, Aceh passed a law to no longer do this in public Authorities flogged a gay couple more than 80 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province Aceh on Friday (13 July). According to a report by ABS-CBN News, the men were part of a group of 15 who were flogged in front of a vocal crowd. Authorities punished them for having gay sex. Islamic law in the province outlaws such acts. Aceh is the only Indonesian province to enforce such Islamic...

Hong Kong’s Immigration Department has lost a longtime battle over the rights of same-sex couples. A British lesbian named QT has been fighting with the government since 2011 in order to get the same visa and immigration rights as straight couples. Having married her partner in a UK civil partnership years before they moved tp Hong Kong in 2011, QT applied for a dependent visa during the transition. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong Immigration Department denied that visa as Hong Kong does...

'A couple is made up of a woman and a man.' Sorry, what? It was just another Saturday night in Bacoli, a maritime location 15km west of Naples, Italy. Giuseppe Pitirollo, 37, and his husband Daniele Bausilio, 28, were having dinner with another couple of friends on 23 June. They decided to go to a beach party organized at Lido Turistico Beach Park. Little did they know they were about to be bounced off for the worst possible reason. The couple claims...

Gay Democratic mayor in Indiana is tipped by Obama to be a rising star in the party, and could even one day be president The mayor of an Indiana city has married his partner and celebrated at a Pride event. South Bend mayor Peter Buttigieg, 36, and Chasten Glezman, wed in Indiana at the weekend. Buttigieg was named by President Barack Obama as a rising star in the Democratic Party. In the article for Politico, he was even tipped as a possibility...

News is spreading that Tyler Posey and Avan Jogia are set to play gay roles in an upcoming Starz comedy series. Deadline has released the news about an upcoming half-hour comedy show called Now Apocalypse. The 10-episode series follows a group of friends, Carly (Kelli Berglund), Ford (Beau Mirchoff), Severine (Roxane Mesquida), and Ulysses (Jogia), as they pursue love, sex, and fame in Los Angeles. Both Jogia and Posey have amassed gay followings thanks to their good looks and their earlier...

A Utah café worker is being applauded for defending a gay couple who were being harassed by a large group of men. While participating in Utah’s Pride Festival on Saturday, a gay couple was walking around downtown Salt Lake City. Around 10 p.m. that night, the two men found themselves being harassed by a group of 10 to 15 white men. The men yelled out homophobic slurs at the couple and followed them as they fled. The gay men then came across...

Romanian-born Adrian Coman and his American boyfriend, Clai Hamilton, married in Belgium in 2010 after dating for 8 years. Living in New York City in 2012, Coman requested residency permits for Mr. Hamilton to live and work in Romania. But the request was denied on the basis that the country doesn't recognize same-sex marriage. The couple took their case to the Romanian courts in 2016 which referred the gentlemen to the European Court of Justice to inquire whether EU law applied...

The American Civil Liberties Union is trying to get an undocumented gay man from Pennsylvania freed from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s clutches. Back in January, Jose “Ivan” Nuñez was captured by ICE officials while he was in a meeting with his husband, who’s a U.S. citizen, to talk to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) about obtaining a visa. Ice officials apparently, “stormed into the room” and detained Nuñez. He’s been in their custody ever since. Last Week, the ACLU of...

A loved-up lesbian couple from Bartlett, Tennessee got a sweet surprise on Friday 25 May when they discovered that they had both planned to propose to one another on the exact same day. While visiting Memphis Zoo and Aquarium in the pair’s home state, Becky McCabe posed for a picture with her then-girlfriend Jessa Gillaspie before getting down on one knee and popping the question. Shocked, Gillaspie started jumping around before rummaging in her bag and pulling out a ring box...

EXCLUSIVE: One of the gay guys received 30 internal stitches and 52 stitches on his hand An unidentified attacker verbally abused a gay couple, then stabbed them in the neck, back and hand. Christopher Giovanni Huizar, 19, and Gabriel Enrique Roman, 23, went out on Saturday night (26 May) to the Church Nightclub in Denver, Colorado. They live downtown, so decided to walk home because ‘it was nice weather out’. Then Huizar told Gay Star News what happened next. He said: ‘When we passed...