Tag: same sex marriage

Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands that lie between the UK and France Jersey today passed a law recognizing both same-sex and humanist marriages. Politicians voted 43-1 to legalize these unions. EQUAL MARRIAGE PASSED! 43.1. Have your cake and eat it ? — DIFERA (@LiberateJersey) February 1, 2018 Located near the coast of Normandy, Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands between England and France. It is a Crown dependency and self-governing parlimentary democracy. While not part of the United...

A half-dozen LGBT Cubans arrived in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport Saturday, seeking asylum. Mariela Castro has long been the face of Cuba’s LGBT movement, which is a little unusual given she’s a heterosexual cisgender woman and daughter of president Raul Castro. A member of the Cuban Parliament and director of the government-sanctioned Cuban National Center for Sex Education, she’s marched at the front of Havana’s Pride parade and has spoken out in support of marriage equality, though she’s claimed it’s not the...

Officials are already working to amend Russian family law. Thanks to a loophole, a pair of gay newlyweds have “accidentally” become the first same-sex couple to have their marriage legally recognized by Russia, the Moscow Times reports. Returning home after getting married January 4 in Copenhagen, Russian citizens Eugene Wojciechowski and Pavel Stotsko took their notarized Danish registration forms to the Moscow registry office in an attempt to get the updated marriage page of their passports stamped. The newlyweds told Russia’s Rain...

EXCLUSIVE: 'The outpouring of love is overwhelming' Daniel Hall and Vincent Franchino tell GSN Helicopter pilots Daniel Hall and Vincent Franchino have commented on the reaction to their world-first wedding at West Point. West Point is a military academy located in West Point, New York, Orange County. Speaking to Gay Star News, the pair said they were delighted with the positive response to the story. Daniel, 30, told us: ‘Our wedding day meant so much to us, in many ways it was the...

The 9/11 terrorist attacks came in a close second as the historical event that had the most impact on Australia Even though same-sex couples have only had the right to legally wed for a few weeks, Australians think achieving marriage equality was the most significant in the country’s history. The Australian Parliament passed marriage equality into law in December last year after 13 years of campaigning by marriage equality advocates. The parliament changed the Marriage Act after a national postal survey...

"The rules that regulate marriage in Costa Rica ... remain in force." Despite the approval of the president and a top human rights court, the first same-sex marriage in Costa Rica hit a stumbling block this week when notaries refused to recognize it until the country’s laws were officially changed. After the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of equal marriage earlier this month, Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis directed government agencies to follow its ruling and recognize...

An Australian equal marriage campaigner has said that LGB couples are waiting to tie the knot because “they are too tired” after campaigning for their rights to marriage. After enduring nearly three months of campaigning to score an overwhelming 66.1% “yes” vote in the Australian same-sex marriage referendum, Australian Marriage Equality board member Sarah Midgley said that people probably need “a little break” before they get hitched in droves after the vote. “Many people maybe need a little break since the...

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,...

Government said they will comply with a ruling which said they needed to treat same-sex couples 'without discrimination' The Costa Rican government have said yes to marriage equality! The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said the countries it oversees should treat same-sex couples ‘without discrimination.’ The panel of seven judges issued a statement that said governments ‘must recognize and guarantee all the rights that are derived from a family bond between people of the same sex.’ Judges said it was necessary to...

Here's a fun story. The Guardian is reporting that two heterosexual Irishmen have married each other in order to avoid inheritance tax on a house. The total amount? Roughly $59,000. https://twitter.com/emmamcm/status/944195775923478529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Ftwo-straight-guys-got-married-one-another-avoid-inheritance-tax Best friends Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan are both straight, but decided to get married when they discovered how much tax would have to be paid on the house Murphy, 83, intended to leave in his will to O’Sullivan, 58, who is his carer (cares, unpaid, for a friend or...

AUSTIN, Texas — A man who sued over the right to marry his partner said Tuesday that he is running as a Democrat in 2018 in a bid that would make him the first openly gay state senator in Texas if elected. Mark Phariss, a lawyer from the Dallas suburb of Plano, said he is encouraged by recent high-profile Democratic upsets in Virginia and Alabama as he launches his first run for public office in Dallas’ conservative northern suburbs. Phariss and...

A Maori man has proposed to his Aboriginal Australia boyfriend during a live TV interview. Just days after the Australian Parliament moved to legalise same-sex marriage, the couple appeared on Kawekōrero Reporters on Maori TV. Richard Haeata of Te Whānau-a-Apanui and his boyfriend Robert Stewart (Iora Nation) appeared on the show, but nobody guessed what was going to happen next. Haeata popped the big question in the most nonchalant way. He said: “I can’t go down on one knee. “But I would love you...

The couple will get married on the world famous parade route with their closest friends and family Since marriage equality became legal in Australia last week, same-sex couples have been lining up to register their intention to marry. But one couple has decided to do things a little bit differently, by getting hitched on top of a float at world famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in 2018. Sydney’s Mardi Gras is one of the world’s biggest LGBTI festival...

A Canberra couple who vowed to divorce if same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia have backed down on their promise. In 2015 Nick and Sarah Jensen said they would not want to be associated with any new definition of marriage if the law changed. “My wife and I just celebrated our 10-year anniversary. But later this year, we may be getting a divorce,” Mr Jensen wrote for Canberra’s City News. “The decision to divorce is not one we’ve taken lightly. And certainly,...