Tag: gay marriage

We have the latest celebrity coming out news for you and this time it comes from a star of the TV Land show Younger. Dan Amboyer went to People Magazine when he wanted to share the news of his coming out and getting hitched. “Being a young actor in the industry, I had a lot of people who strongly advised me to stay quiet. That was hard to live with,” Amboyer shared. “But I’ve never played a gay role before and...

Iván Chanis Barahona is a gay Panamanian lawyer who is working towards getting gay marriage legalized in the country. He is representing a couple that was legally married in the U.K. and is working to get their marriage recognized in Panama. Chanis is also working a second case that is challenging the country on the laws that keep same-sex couples from marrying. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the summer. The two cases have been rolled into one, and the...

Same-sex marriage laws in the country come into effect from today Gay men Bodo Mende, 60, and Karl Kreile, 59, just became the first same-sex couple to marry in Germany. As of today (1 October) same-sex couples can tie the knot but Mende and Kreile didn’t waste any time. In a ceremony at the Schoeneberg town hall in Berlin, the couple exchanged vows and then cut into a fabulous rainbow cake with the words ‘Marriage Equality’ written on top. Speaking at a press...

They're at it again! Previously, the Benham Brothers said that they don’t want to live in a "bizarro world" where they can't discriminate against gays. Now they're saying the death and destruction caused by recent hurricanes was a message from God, telling America that it must repent for accepting homosexuality and gay marriage. Right Wing Watch has more: Religious Right culture warriors David and Jason Benham published a video Monday in which they claimed “God is speaking” through hurricanes to send a message...

The Ghanaian internet is currently heating up because of a gay wedding that happened… in America. Stephen Kabutey Ofoi Ceasar (or Stephen Anertey Caesar as some media outlets are reporting) is a Ghanaian born man. He went to, and was a prefect (class leader) at, the Achimota (Motown) School in Accra, which boasts itself as a prominent British styled school that has bred future Ghanaian and Zimbabwean presidents as well as Nigerian governors. After that, Ceasar reportedly lived in Mataheko, a...

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet introduced a bill proposal on Monday to legalize gay marriage. Bachelet is sending the proposal over to Congress at an upcoming ceremony in the presidential palace. The plan for the proposal is to expand the definition of marriage from only between a man and a woman to “a union of two people.” In addition, it will give new rights to same-sex couples such as making it easier for them to adopt. "We do this with the certainty that...

A new law in Haiti would ban gay marriage, along with showing any public support for LGBTQ rights. Charlot Jeudy, of the gay rights organization Kouraj, is leading the charge to stop the proposed new law. It passed last week in the senate and would fine either party not in a marriage between a man and a woman, $8,000 and up to 3 years in prison. The bill would also outlaw any public support for LGBTQ rights. At the moment,...

The Senate are next looking to implicate a ban on any 'public demonstration of support for homosexuality' A vote by the Haiti Senate has banned gay marriage. The approved bill says any ‘parties, co-parties and accomplices’ of a gay marriage can be jailed for three years and fined $8,000 (€6,746). The state approved the text on Tuesday. Senate President Youri Latortue told AFP: ‘All senators are opposed to same-sex marriage, so this simply reflects the commitments they made during their campaigns.’ Latortue also...

An entrepreneur in India is helping homosexuals get married through the way of arranged marriages. Urvi Shah created the International Marriage Bureau for Gays & Lesbians in 2015 and since then has helped 21 couples in India find long-term relationships and marriage. With same-sex activities considered illegal in India, the international service aims to provide couples with a way to “Get hitched without a hitch.” According to a study conducted of 600 people by TrulyMadly.com found that 69% of marriages are arranged. With...

'We do not work for heterosexuals'. LGBTI people from all over the world are looking to India to find love. The International Gay Marriage Bureau is an Indian website which is the only one in the world looking to arrange marriages for LGBTI people. Urvi Shah is the CEO of Custom Soul Connection LLP the parent company of International Gay Marriage Bureau. She told Gay Iceland she had originally started the website for Indian people who faced a lot of discrimination because of...

Ahh, wedding season! If you haven’t seen my previous article on how gay men are always getting dumped by their best girlfriend, you wouldn’t know that I am officially a bridesmaid (yes!) at my best girlfriend’s upcoming wedding. I couldn’t be more excited to participate in my lifelong friend’s special day. I’m so thrilled for her, that I began thinking…I, as a gay man, can legally get married! How could I almost have forgotten?! Recently, I was in Chicago for...

A California pastor has claimed that Satan is responsible for gay weddings. The claim comes from pastor Jim Garlow, the pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego. Speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, Garlow suggested that gay couple getting married is a Satanic plot. The pastor claimed that the marriage of men and women in the Bible He said: “You put male and female together, ish and ishah, and you get yod hey – that’s the name for God. “That’s the...

Singapore has made a marriage void between a married couple after the husband underwent the harrowing operation to change her sex. The argument from local authority is that their marriage had become a same-sex union and therefore contravened the city-state’s laws on same-sex marriage. The couple were married as husband and wife in 2015, and after a few years of marriage, the husband made the decision to start living her life as a woman. She underwent the operation to change her biological sex, and changed her national...

Turns out we've still got time to find The One Even though same-sex marriage is legal in both the U.S. and the UK, it seems as though not every gay man is ready to tie the knot. While most of us expect to get married in our 30s, it turns out most LGBT+ men like to wait a little longer to make that big commitment. New research has discovered that the average age for gay men to tie the knot is around...