Tag: same-sex couple

The caption reads: 'It's just a kiss' Vogue Italia has not only just put one gay kiss on its September issue, but two. New editor-in-chief Emanuele Farnati has celebrated fashion’s biggest month with two covers, one same-sex male couple and one same-sex female couple. https://www.instagram.com/p/BYT1c_Xgdvc/ Lily Alridge and Vittoria Ceretti lock lips on one cover of its ‘Italian issue’, while real-life couple Edoardo Velicskov and Pablo Rousson are on the other. A third cover features Maria Carla Boscono and Federico Spinas. https://www.instagram.com/p/BYTQBHNBcRg/ The caption reads ‘it’s...

John Walker has defeated the government in a case that could change the lives of thousands of same-sex couples. A gay man has won a landmark legal battle to give his husband the same pension rights as a wife would receive. Ex-cavalry officer John Walker, 66, was told by Court of Appeal judges two years ago that his attempt to claim equal pension rights for his husband had failed because his pension had been accrued before civil partnerships were recognised by...

'I guessed that one!' Planning a civil partnership can be tough, but let’s throw a little more stress one happy couple’s way. Matt Horwood and James Besanvalle are getting a civil partnership in just over a month. But first, can they answer a few seemingly simple questions about each other? We asked the boys some fairly straightforward questions and told them to reveal each answer on the count of three. Watch the hilarious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENh9xblMGbY A civil partnership instead of a marriage is a ‘political...

'We’re just two very regular guys, in a long term relationship. And not in our 20s anymore.' Icelandair have released a new promotional video starring what could be the world’s most loved-up couple. In it, gay guys Roald and Sigurþórs are seen outside Reykjavik’s iconic Hallgrímskirkja church, before seeing some exploding geysers. The bearded twosome are then seen enjoying a sauna, before checking out the natural springs at Laugarvatn Fontana. We aren’t in the least bit jealous, of course. According to the people behind...

Police accuse the gay men of 'belonging to a gang of an unlawful society' A same-sex couple are on the run after police arrested 53 gay men in Nigeria. Authorities in Zaria raided a motel where a group of mostly male students were holding a party yesterday evening at the Zaria Motel (19 April). As homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria, house parties are often the only time LGBTI people can feel free and safe to be open about their sexual or gender...

It is a tradition to run an April Fools’ day article, and this year we broke the “news” that Simba would be gay in upcoming live-action Lion King remake. In the story, we wrote that Simba realises that he is gay during his teenage years after chancing upon same-sex couple Timon and Pumbaa in the wilderness. In order to accommodate the new plot, Simba’s childhood friend and eventual girlfriend Nala has been replaced with the male lion Naji. The film was also...

“It just kind of blacked out and all I could see was Chris and Adele standing there." A same-sex couple got engaged at Adele’s concert in Melbourne last night, sharing their proposal with 77,000 fans and one delighted Grammy winner. Wade Nicholson-Doyle took his boyfriend, Chris, to the show as a 40th birthday present and the two were invited on stage. Seizing the moment Nicholson-Doyle dropped to one knee and proposed, to the delight of the roaring crowd. “Did you say yes?”...

A Canadian same-sex couple have spoken out after a photographer refused to work their wedding. Mike Cerantola and his partner Victor Rivas, from Montreal, told CTV News that they were refused service from Premiere Productions once the photographer found out that they were a same-sex couple. Mike said: “I texted and I was super excited, I was like ‘Look, we’ve found a good photographer’, I sent him a quote and he agreed with it, so we were trying to set...

BBC One’s new Christmas advert is the latest to features a same-sex couple. The festive scenes promote equality and show off the diversity of modern-day Britain, with a range of couples and family set-ups including a male same-sex couple who share a kiss at a Christmas party. Viewers have since taken to social media to air their thoughts on the new advert, with many praising the inclusivity shown in the advert and expressing the importance of such representation for minorities. https://twitter.com/OnceUponASophie/status/805502231919423488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/philford/status/805501658667110405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/kennycport/status/806051428963876865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/nickophile/status/805868277482291201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/Saul_Britt/status/805939130429571077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/robbieg_15/status/805502392032751616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw It’s not...

A South Australian MP has introduced a bill to offer protection to same-sex couples. It will give legal recognition to those in same-sex relationships, and also grant them next-of-kin status and offer some adoption rights, according to BuzzFeed News. The bill comes in response to the tragic story of a British man who was left unable to decide what should be done with his husband’s body after he died during their honeymoon in Adelaide at the beginning of the year. Same-sex marriage...

Mary McHale and Sara Hinton were threatened by staff for showing their love for each other. A baseball team was forced to apologise to a transmasculine couple after they were criticised by staff for kissing at the team’s first ever Pride night. Mary McHale and partner Sara Hinton – who identify as non-binary – had enjoyed the Seattle Mariners game against the Milwaukee Brewers, kissing as they waited to be picked up outside the Safeco Field stadium. However, the celebrations quickly stopped...

In a research, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior that has been conducted throughout many years, during 1973-2014, the surveys with over 30,000 participants revealed that Americans have more openness to same-sex activities. The study focused on sexual behavior and attitudes towards same-sex activity. The number of men and women who had sex with same-sex partners increased, The General Social Survey shows. In comparison with year 1990, the number of men having sex with men rose from 4,5% to 8.2% in...

The consul-general in Shanghai, Hanscom Smith, and his boyfriend announced about their wedding in the U.S. on Hanscom's official Weibo page. It was couple's second attemp to tie marriage knot. The first attempt of a gay Chinese couple to win the right to get married was failed. But the couple didn't stop. And finally they found a way out. The couple got married finally on Tuesday, April, 4 in San Francisco. Hanscom Smith, who is currently a consul general in Shanghai, was officially married to his longtime partner, Eric Lu,...

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...