Tag: same sex marriage

President-elect Trump says he’s “fine” with the marriage equality verdict handed down by the Supreme Court, however, other rights such as a women’s right to choose appear in jeopardy. During a wide ranging interview with CBS’ 60 minutes, the future leader of one of the most influential countries in the world, Donald Trump said he was ‘fine’ with same-sex marriage. “It’s law,” he told CBS’ Leslie Stahl, “It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done.” Trump’s stance on same-sex...

Mexico has rejected a proposal to legalise same-sex marriage across the country. The bill, introduced by President Enrique Penã Nieto, was struck down by a constitutional committee in Mexico’s lower house on Wednesday, with 19 votes against, eight in favour, and one abstention. In a statement on the vote, the lower house committee said the debate over same-sex marriage “is considered to be totally and definitively concluded”. Same-sex marriage is currently legal in several states around Mexico, including the capital Mexico City...

A pair of Belgian TV presenters have married each other after a social media stunt that exploded. Jonas Van Geel and James Cooke married each other yesterday and threw an after party for their fans to attend. It started off as a bet between the two as they announced on Van Geel’s show that they would marry if they got over 200,000 likes on their Facebook page – double the amount they started with. The pair reached their target and made it...

The British overseas territory of Gibraltar has legalised same-sex marriage. Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar announced the news on Twitter, explaining that the Civil Marriage Amendment Bill 2016 was passed in parliament unanimously. https://twitter.com/GibraltarGov/status/791258837378539520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Felix Alvarez, Chairman of Equality Rights Group Gibraltar, said: “Today is a happy and long-awaited day for many in Gibraltar. Equality Rights Group extends a big thanks to all the LGBTI community and also to the very special people who have fought unfailingly alongside us. “There is still much...

On Oct. 16, Jacques Picoux died after falling from the 10th floor of a building in Wenshan District, southern Taipei.  The investigation into his death continues, but police have not found any signs of a struggle are leaning toward the fact that Picoux may have committed suicide. There is definitely more to this story, this death, and how it tie into Taiwan's marriage equality fight. The sudden death of a well-known French professor in Taiwan, whose partner recently died from cancer,...

Tens of thousands of people have marched in Paris to call for the repeal of a law allowing gay marriage, six months before France's next presidential election. The protesters ended up at Trocadero Plaza, near the Eiffel Tower. Police estimated the crowd at 24,000, while organizers gave a figure of 200,000. They were also protesting Sunday against the use of assisted reproduction techniques and surrogate mothers to help same-sex couples have babies. Assisted reproduction is allowed in France only for infertile heterosexual...

Hillary Clinton Still Does not Support the LGBT community WikiLeaks has been releasing thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton and many of them let the American public know how she really feels towards them. The LGBT community is definitely one of those groups of people. Many Democrats, including Hillary, have been claiming to be the champions of gay rights, especially since the Supreme Court deemed gay marriage legal in all 50 states. But what about before this Supreme Court decision?...

An army sergeant and his partner have become the first gay couple to marry on a British military base overseas. Sergeant Alastair Smith, 36, married his partner, Aaron Weston, in Cyprus on the British forces territory in Dhekelia. It is the first ever same-sex marriage to take place on a UK army base, and the first at a base overseas. The couple’s wedding took place on September 10th alongside the picturesque coastline of Fisherman’s Cove. The ceremony was approved and officiated by Air...

The first same-sex proposal has taken place at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games! After crowds dispersed at the women’s rugby sevens final on Monday, Marjorie Enya walked onto the pitch and asked Brazil player – and partner of two years – Isadora Cerullo to marry her. Marjorie, a 28-year-old manager at Deodoro Stadium, took a microphone and delivered a moving speech before the couple embraced to applause. https://twitter.com/DanielleWarby/status/762826188226113540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw She told BBC Sport: “As soon as I knew she was in the squad I thought...

The Eastern Europe is moving slowly with LGBT rights, or rtaher, it's not moving at all. In Romania, the Orthodox Church has started a petition to ban same-sex marriage, which is not legalized in Romania. To submit the petition to the Government, they needed 500,000 signatures instead they gathered three million. This shows the mentality of Romanian people regarding same-sex relationships. Lead by the Orthodox Church, 23 NGO's try to stay against LGBT rights in Romania, and according to  MozaiQ, an LGBT rights...

Kids React series has created a special episode where children see a man proposing to a man and a woman proposing to a woman. Their reactions were awesome. Most of them thought that "it's alright that these people the same gender really want to marry each other can," as 6-year-old Dominick, put it. There were smiles, clapping, wonder, a little confusion, but all of them were for equal love and equal rights. "I thought I would be in my 20s or 30s by...

More and more denominations integrate gay people in their community, and Scotland is the next country to allow ministers marry their same sex partner. A measure that will allow ministers to be in same-sex marriages was built on a law that passed last year. Today, The Assembly approved the measure, and even if religion will still deny it, ministers can "opt out" to marry their same sex partner with no consequences. The ceremony opening the Assembly on Saturday was held by...

Hooray! Isle of Man Finally Legalized Same-Sex Marriage.  Six members of Isle of Man’s Legislative Council voted in favor of the Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Partnership (Amendment) Bill. Only three of members voted against. Till this time same-sex couples had the right to enter civil unions since 2011, but they were not allowed to marry till these days. The Manx Rainbow Association claimed that this legislative change proves that Isle of Man is “shaking off its dark past.” And it was really a dark past. Homosexual...

Colombia became the fourth nation in the whole Latin America that legalized same-sex marriage. On the 29h of April Colombia’s constitutional court issued a ruling that recognizes same-sex marriages. "The judges affirmed by a majority that marriage between people of the same sex does not violate constitutional order," presiding Judge Maria Victoria Calle claimed. “The current definition of the institution of marriage in civil law applies to them in the same way as it does for couples of the same sex.” The decision to legalize gay...