Rhode Island gay marriage bill re-introduced
A bill to allow gay couples to marry was re-introduced on 6 January 2011. Democrat representative Arthur Handy told The Providence Journal he has secured the support of 27 so-sponsors and expects to sign up more. Gay marriage bills have failed in Rhode Island repeatedly in recent years, but the state has a new, supportive governor. Lincoln Chafee, a Republican turned independent, was sworn in on Tuesday and used his inauguration speech to call for... Read More
Nicaragua’s Catholic Church Opposes Gay Marriage
Nicaragua’s largest Catholic diocese has spoken out against gay marriage, Spanish news agency EFE reported. The diocese of Managua, Masaya and Carazo urged lawmakers on Sunday not to legalize the institution. In a statement read during mass at La Catedral Metropolitana in Managua – the country’s capital and largest city – the church reiterated its opposition to “the various projects together or alone that pretend to grant unions... Read More
First Gay Marriage in Ecuador
Ecuador will have its first gay marriage this Friday, December 10. Joey Hateley and Hugo Vera will exchange vows in Quito during a civil ceremony officiated by Councilor Norman Wray, the president of the Metropolitan Commission on Gender (Comisión Metropolitana de Género), according to the website proyecto-transgenero.org. Hateley, the artistic director of TransAction Theatre Company, transitioned from a woman to man, but is legally considered female.... Read More
Portugal Celebrates 221 Gay Weddings In 6 Months
Six months after a gay marriage law took effect in Portugal, 221 gay and lesbian couples have married, the AFP reported The figures were released Friday by the Ministry of Justice. One-hundred-fifty-six of the couples were male and sixty-five were female. An additional 202 marriages in which one of the spouses is a Portuguese citizen were performed outside the country. Nineteen gay couples married in Portuguese consulates around the world. Social... Read More
Dallas Gay Couple’s Skype Marriage Declared Invalid
Officials in the District of Columbia have declared the high-tech marriage of a Dallas gay couple invalid. Mark Reed and Dante Walkup married earlier this month on the Internet via a Skype call after a 10 year engagement. The Skype call connected the couple to Sheila Alexander-Reid, who officiated their wedding from the nation’s capital. The city legalized gay marriage in March. Prior to the ceremony, the pair traveled to D.C. to register their... Read More
Majority Of Australians Support Gay Marriage
A majority of Australians support giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. According to the latest Nielson poll, nearly sixty percent of Australians are supportive of The Greens’ efforts to legalize gay marriage. Twenty-three percent of people surveyed said they strongly support the institution’s legalization, while thirty-three percent said they support it. Sixteen percent said they were opposed... Read More
Kenyan gay groups concerned after prime minister says they should be arrested
Gay groups in Kenya are concerned after the country’s president said gays and lesbians should be arrested. Raila Odinga made the remarks at a rally on Sunday in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. He said that men and women caught in the middle of gay and lesbian sex would be detained. The country’s largest LGBT group, Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, said it had received frightened phone calls for gay and HIV-positive people who feared they could... Read More
Dallas Gay Couple Marries Over Skype
Gay couple Mark Reed and Dante Walkup married on the Internet after a 10 year engagement. The men exchanged vows in Dallas, Texas, where gay marriage is banned, via a Skype call that connected them to Sheila Alexander-Reid, who officiated their wedding from the District of Columbia. Gay marriage became legal in the nation’s capital in March. Before the wedding, the men traveled to D.C. to register their marriage, but said they wanted to hold... Read More
Australian MPs to canvass voters on gay marriage
Australian politicians will ask voters whether gay marriage should be legalised after the Green Party won a motion on the issue. The party won the motion by 73 votes to 72. It was deadlocked at 72-72 and Speaker Harry Jenkins was forced to use his casting vote. A poll carried out for gay rights groups last month showed that 62 per cent of the 1,005 people surveyed supported allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry, up from 60 per cent last year. The... Read More
American newspaper refuses to publish gay wedding announcements
The largest newspaper in New Hampshire, US, has come under fire for refusing to publish gay marriage announcements. The Union Leader refused to publish notice of a marriage between two men in Portsmouth at the weekend. Although gay marriage is legal in New Hampshire, the newspaper said that its stance was that marriage was reserved for a man and a woman. Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid said: “While the law sanctions gay marriage, it neither... Read More
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