Tag: legal

Plus: A four-point guide to navigating all things queer nuptials. At our third tasting, I texted my fiancé, Nate, from under the table. “What’s actually happening?” We were seated at a restaurant that could potentially cater our wedding. But for the past 20 minutes, the caterer had only been addressing the straight couple seated next to us. The man—tall and proper, if not a bit stiff—was going on about cancellation policies, that toddlers didn’t count toward the final guest count, and how...

A landmark court ruling has ordered 16 new countries to make same-sex marriage legal. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights reached a decision today on a marriage equality petition submitted two years ago by Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solis. 20 countries agreed to follow the court’s rulings when they signed the American Convention on Human Rights, including 16 which have not yet legalised same-sex marriage. These countries are Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,...

This dairy farmer had an emotional response to the announcement of marriage equality in Australia. As Jason Smith milked his cow, he listened live to the marriage equality bill passing in Parliament on his headphones. He was so overwhelmed with emotion about the results that he said he “couldn’t stop crying”. Speaking to The Standard, a local newspaper in south-west Australia, he said: “I just got this feeling of being equal and being okay and having the rest of the country accept...