Ten couples said “I do” at the Lane County Courthouse Friday afternoon as part of the county’s first “Love is Love” celebration in honor of the 10th anniversary of a U.S. District Court ruling that made same-sex marriage available in Oregon. On May 19, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane ruled that Oregon’s ban […]
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the first same-sex marriage licenses being issued in Massachusetts, following a landmark ruling by the State’s Supreme Judicial Court. Events are planned around the area. In Boston, former Governor Deval Patrick will headline a speaking program at the Arlington Street Church. The issuance of licenses on May 17, 2004, […]
FILE – Attorney Jack Wagoner is interviewed after a hearing in the Pulaski County Court House in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, April 17, 2014. Jack Wagoner, an attorney who represented same-sex couples who successfully challenged Arkansas’ ban on gay marriage before state and federal courts, has died, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. He was 62. (AP […]
Apr. 5—An effort to repeal the Legislature’s authority to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples continues to move forward as House Bill 2802 passed out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Thursday. An effort to repeal the Legislature’s authority to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples continues to move forward as House Bill 2802 passed […]
Bee Criswell was three months into a new relationship when they hurried through the doors of a Davenport church and grabbed some seats. Neither Criswell nor their date was religious, but they wanted to celebrate with close friends and other familiar faces who packed the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities that night on […]
Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from the London School of Economics, Thai.News, and The Diplomat The News Thailand is close to becoming the first Southeast Asian country to guarantee marriage equality after lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Of the 415 lawmakers in the lower house of the parliament, 400 voted […]
Legislators in Thailand’s lower house of parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill that would make the country the first in south-east Asia to legalise equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 400 of the 415 members of the House of Representatives who […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill on Wednesday that would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 400 of the 415 members of the […]
A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions. The court does not have the power to overturn the current marriage law, which has been interpreted to restrict marriage as between a man and a […]
The share of U.S. adults who support same-sex marriage and laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination has dipped in the last year, a survey has found. After steadily increasing over the last decade, support for same-sex marriage dipped to 67% in 2023 from a record high of 69% the year before, according to the […]
The departments of defense and veterans affairs now provide in vitro fertilization services to all eligible beneficiaries regardless of their marital status, finalizing changes promised by the federal agencies earlier this year. The new policies allow anyone who has service-connected infertility to use either department’s program, lifting previous requirements that only married, heterosexual couples using […]
A Greek novelist and his partner became the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens’ city hall, three weeks after the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The Greek capital’s mayor officiated at the civil wedding of Petros Hadjopoulos, who writes under the pen name Auguste Corteau, and lawyer Anastasios Samouilidis. Mr […]