Tag: gay marriage

The spouses of Israelis who have tied the knot in countries where same-sex marriage is legal may soon be able to claim Israeli citizenship at the same speed as straight couples, following an announcement by the country’s attorney general. Until now, same-sex spouses were forced to wait up to seven years and would generally only be granted permanent residency rather than citizenship. The process was far quicker for those in straight marriages. Now the government’s chief legal adviser, Avichai Mandelblit, has...

"He slipped his finger into my ring at last". There’s happy news to start the week after Julian Clary revealed that he married his partner Ian Mackley over the weekend. The British comedian and Mackley, who have been in a relationship since 2005, wed in a private ceremony on Saturday. Clary, 57, who has been touring the UK this year with his latest stand-up show The Joy of Mincing, announced the happy news on Twitter with characterisitic humour, writing: “On Saturday he slipped...

No one knows what the new presidency will hold when Trump and his advisors take over. Will it be a turning back of the clocks? Is it all just hot air? The questions right now outweigh the answers. Zach Brooke is not waiting for many of those questions to be answered. He's taking matters into his own hands and is making changes before the Trump administration takes over. He explains his actions in "Why I'm Marrying My Partner Before Trump...

President-elect Donald Trump has already begun to step back from some of the bold claims that he made during his campaign. Last night on 60 Minutes, he told Lesley Stahl that said that he will not mount a challenge to the Supreme Court decision that brought marriage equality to all 50 of the United States. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhqWbfi_dM0 Trump has also said he's willing to keep (at least parts of) the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). Though he appears to have "softened" on gay marriage, Trump...

The bill seeks to change the existing gendered terms in the marriage law, such as 'man and woman,' to 'the two parties.' As one of the most progressive Asian nations in terms of gay rights, is Taiwan finally ready for marriage equality? On Monday, ten legislators of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have announced that a proposal to amend the Civil Code to legalise same-sex marriage is currently in the works, according to Focus Taiwan. Yu Mei-nu, a convener of the Judiciary and Organic Laws and...

The good news is that Ben Carson woke up momentarily from his three-hundred-year slumber to mumble incoherently about you. The bad news is that he didn’t have anything very nice to say. Apparently he thinks that future mass killings are coming, and they’ll be the fault of gay couples. And really, that’s it. There’s no more context, no more explanation that makes it make sense. He was at the Pensmore National Symposium on Religious Liberty — of course, naturally it was a religious event...

Former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford has made a striking announcement recently. 20 years after his 48 years wife Clare death (acute leukemia), the 90-year-old former top adviser to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. is getting married again. But this time he decided to change his sexual orientation and marry to a man who is 50 years younger than Harris is. “Too often, our society seeks to label people by pinning them on the wall–straight, gay or in between,” Wofford once...

A same-sex couple has become the first to openly take advantage of the country’s new civil unions law, speaking out for equality as they tied the knot. The Eastern Orthodox Church is strongly influential in Cyprus, and homosexuality was only legalised in 1998. However, the country has made large strides on equality in recent years, despite a continuing taboo. The country passed a civil unions bill in November last year, with a huge majority in the Cypriot Parliament. The law took effect...

We continue to make you acquanted with the science research on the subject - Gay parents are awesome. Second part of this research is available here. At first glance, gay and lesbian parents have the same, theoretically, to offer a child that heterosexual parents do.  They all bring intelligence, concern, discipline and love to the breakfast table.  They all make sure homework is completed and send their children off to school with lunch in tow.  Science projects get completed, and...

Robert Leopold Spitzer, a psychiatrist who played a major role in eliminating homosexuality from the list of mental disorders died December 25, 2015 in Seattle, aged 83. His wife, Columbia University Professor Emerita Janet Williams, Dr. Spitzer declared that he died from a heart disease. Dr. Spitzer had a major contribution in classifying mental disorders working on several editions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D.S.M.). In 1973, Dr. Spitzer came to the conclusion that homosexuality should be removed...

What you are about to read is based on scientific researches and it has been determined as compiling common practices that every gay couple are involved in. I mean, who doesn't have sex like this, am I right? You cannot have proper gay sex without going through the next crucial 12 steps, so pay attention: 1. It all starts with a hug and a soft kiss. After watching a good old romance like Ghost, or a tragic gay love story like...

The most popular month for gays and lesbians weddings became August 2014, when there were registered about 844 same-sex marriages. The Office of the National Statistics said that during the spring of 2014 15,098 same-sex couples got married. The most popular month for weddings of gays and lesbians became August 2014, when 844 marriages were registered. Furthermore, according to the same data, marriages among women had the greater popularity . Among the couples who have entered into the marriage, 55% are female couples...

Love is not a rare thing, but finding it may be! There is nothing in this world that is actually out of the box, it is just our way of looking at things. Someone once said that there are two ways to think about life: either everything that happens is a miracle or there are no such things as miracles. What you believe? sodahead.com It is not true that gays and lesbians don’t live normal lives. Their lives are normal in...

If you enjoyed reading the story When Superman turns into Groomzilla, you will be eager to know what happened with this gay couple later. So let's get to know. I am sure my eyes glazed over. I must have been standing there for only a few seconds but it felt like hours. Then, Luca spoke again. “Don’t you get it? The Wizard of Oz! Somewhere over the rainbow! The rainbow flag? …for a gay wedding! It’s genius, right?” “Oh I love me some...