Tag: same-sex marriages

‘Age is just a number’ say 75-year-old Andrew Goodier and 24-year-old Ethan Chao Shou-Chuan A Taiwanese and British gay couple held a wedding party in Taiwan on Saturday (16 February). Andrew Goodier and Ethan Chao Shou-Chuan celebrated their relationship with 40 family and friends at a traditional banquet in Miaoli on the country’s west coast. Their age difference of 51 years made headlines in the country. After a famous Taiwan writer shared the couple’s story online, more than 500 well-wishers also arrived at...

Gay marriages are the least likely to end, a new study has shown. Two men who get hitched in the US have better odds of making it than their counterparts in lesbian and straight marriages, according to research by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. The study, which tracked more than 500 couples in Vermont over the course of 12 years, also revealed that women in same-sex marriages were the most likely to break up. Unhappy lesbian couple sitting...

"Together we are paving the way for couples around the world to know that their love and commitment is to be celebrated equally," said the head of Celebrity Cruises For what’s believed to be the first time, a same-sex couple married aboard a cruise ship in international waters. Celebrity Cruises reports South Florida residents Francisco Vargas and Benjamin Gray tied the knot aboard the line’s 2,850-passenger Celebrity Equinox in a ceremony officiated by Captain Dimitrios Manetas. “There are only so many firsts...

You can now get married on your next Cruise vacation! Last week, on National Coming Out Day, the Celebrity Cruises company announced that all same-sex marriages performed onboard are now legally recognized. The company, and its parent company Royal Caribbean Cruises, had already hosted gay weddings before for trips to the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean, but this new announcement is specifically in relation to trips to Malta. You see, back in July the Mediterranean nation’s parliament voted 66-1 in favor of...

Hong Kong courts just ruled in favor of same-sex couples. A British woman referred to as QT moved to Hong Kong back in 2011 when he was offered a job with a tech company. When QT moved, she also brought her partner SS who she’d been in a civil partnership. Problem is that Hong Kong’s laws don’t acknowledge same-sex marriages or even civil partnerships, so SS didn't recieve any spousal benefits that straight couples do. To combat this, QT filed a judicial...

Support for gay marriage is still low among the over 65s New research has revealed shocking statistics about the UK public’s opinion on same-sex marriages. According to new data published by Emerald Life, an insurance provider set up to challenge injustice and inequality in the insurance sector, one in five people would outwardly refuse an invitation to a gay couple’s wedding. “One in five (21%) people in the UK would refuse an invitation to a same sex wedding or are unsure if...

Same-sex couples could begin to marry in Guernsey as soon as the summer, it has been announced. The Employment and Social Security Committee Vice President Shane Langlois said the UK Privy Council announced that Royal Assent has been given to the law first introduced back in 2015. The measure will now go to the States for final approval before it will come into effect. Despite Langlois saying that it is expected it will do so in the summer, he said before a...

It’s done: Pastafarians are now allowed to perform gay marriages from a legal stance in New Zeeland. For those of you who don’t know, the Flying Spaghetti Monster Church is a modern day religion whose adepts are being called Pastafarians and they worship a meatball-spaghetti monster for a God. Also, they specify that after you die you may end up in heaven (which has a beer volcano and a stripper factory. Hell is pretty much the same, the only difference...

If the president of the country Nicos Anastasiades signs the law, the same-sex couples in Cyprus will get the opportunity to be legally recognized for the first time. The Parliament of Cyprus on 26th of November voted in favour of the Civil Partnership Bill for all couples. It was an important step that all LGBTI people in Cyprus were waiting for ages. Now all gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual and intersex got a right for equality in choosing a partner for...

Ireland has become the first country to legalize same-sex civil marriage by popular vote, with 62.1 percent in favor of the legal union between two people "without distinction as to their sex." This happened in May at a Referendum that has written another page in the history of the LGBT community. But today the law came into effect, and same-sex couples of the Republic of Ireland can now get married. The law recognizes same-sex marriages that were legalized abroad immediately, and...

Phillip Davies is a Tory Member of Parliament, a master of the filibuster, and a conservative who has his own distinct opinion about the meaning of equality in the bill of same sex marriage.  No question he voted against the bill during the last Parliament, but until now, his true reasoning was not known. Davies apparently has opined that the bill does not represent equality at all. His contention is that in allowing same-sex unions to be marriages is an act...