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In a survey of marriage in Sweden between 1995 and 2002, there were 1,526 gay partnerships registered compared to 280,000 heterosexual couples. Five out of every 1,000 new couples in Sweden are same-sex, and 62% of those are gay male unions. ...
Tags: gay marriage, gays, lesbians, controversary
A New York court has ruled a homosexual who married his longtime partner in Canada is his legal spouse for purposes of inheritance. The decision is believed to be the first in the state upholding the rights of surviving same-sex spouses, the New York...
This is one lesson they didn’t teach me at IIM – A, when I recently finished an intensive 1 year management program. That there is a niche market of gays out there! May not be in India yet, but definitely there in US for sure!...
Tags: Risqe Advertising, Campbell Soup, gays, Barack Obama
Out of the 1,700 pastors who responded to a poll conducted by Svergies Television (SVT), 68 percent answered positively to the question of whether they could imagine officiating gay marriages in churches. In addition, 21 percent answered no, while 11...
The lawyer for a B.C. polygamous sect leader plans to defend his client's right to marry more than one woman by citing gay marriage and cohabitation arrangements. Blair Suffredine, who is representing Winston Blackmore in court Wednesday, will challenge...
Tags: Winston Blackmore, Canada, B.C., gays, court appear, British Columbia, Blair Suffredine, gay marriage, Winson Blackmore, communities leaders
Members of the gay and lesbian community will be rallying today outside the Leon County Courthouse. Organizers are hoping to remind President-elect Barack Obama of his promises to seek the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, to end "Don't Ask Don't...
Tags: obama, lesbians, gays, Leon County Courthouse, lesbians community
Another battle over the rights of same-sex couples is headed to the state Legislature this year as activists try to expand rights available under Washington's 1 1/2-year-old domestic-partnership registry. That registry has 4,892 couples with either two...
Tags: gays
Married gay couples in much of New York can now list both their names on their children's birth certificates as a result of the state's recent decision to recognize same-sex weddings performed elsewhere. The state Health Department said Friday it has...
Tags: gay marriage, marriages, cat, sex, lesbians, greed, union, media, gays, birth certificates
A top official for the National Association of Evangelicals resigned Thursday after his earlier remarks favoring same-sex unions caused an uproar among evangelicals...Richard Cizik , the NAE's vice president for governmental affairs for 28 years, stepped...
Tags: gays, civil union
Designed to be a protest against the Nov. 4 passage of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, the day's events drew only scattered support in the Bay Area, the heart of the gay rights movement, and also criticism. Several gay and lesbian people...