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Video: Marriage Equality’s Water Fountain?

Written on 30 Aug, 2010 at 13:50 in A Gay Girl's View, Commentary, Featured, LGBT Rights, News, Video Posts | viewed times | 0 Comments

Posted by Melanie Nathan- August 30-2010 Marriage Equality can only mean full equality under the law! It is a legal contract between two people that ought to be available to all and any who choose it, regardless of sexual orientation, gender... (Continue reading)

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Angelina Jolie Feels That Being Someone’s Wife Is Not Special, Not Pushing Marriage

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 19:14 in Celebrities, Entertainment, Featured | viewed times | 2 Comments

08/26/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Angelina Jolie has made it rather clear that she and Brad Pitt will not get married any time soon despite being together for the past five years.  After two turns at the altar, Jolie just no longer... (Continue reading)

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Finnish Lutherans Open To Debate On Accepting Same-Sex Marriages

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 11:15 in Featured, News, Religion, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/26/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The Lutheran Bishop of Espoo, in Finland, Mikko Heikka has signaled the openness of the Lutheran Church to, as he put it, “gender-neutral marriage”, or in more common parlance, same-sex marriage.  Throughout the column that he wrote,... (Continue reading)

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Texas Marriage Laws A Morass Of Contraditions And Confusion For Married Transpeople

Written on 19 Aug, 2010 at 10:21 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/18/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The issue of what constitutes a ‘woman’ or a ‘man’ has been going on for some time.  To some, the definition is based upon genetic sex, and to others, it is the gender characteristics that a person... (Continue reading)

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German Justice Minister Says She Will Look At Ways To Fix Same-Sex Couple Income Tax Rules

Written on 19 Aug, 2010 at 8:05 in Featured, In The Courts, LGBT Rights, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

8/19/10-by Paula Brooks Earlier this week Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court found that country’s inheritance tax put same-sex registered partners at a clear disadvantage after it said there were no legal grounds for taxing gay people who lost their partner differently from... (Continue reading)

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Prop 8 Supporters Appeal To Stop Same-Sex Marriages On Grounds That State Needs To Promote Heterosexual Marriage

Written on 16 Aug, 2010 at 15:05 in Featured, In The Courts, LGBT Rights, News | viewed times | 1 Comment

08/16/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Supporters of Prop 8 are hoping that they can appeal Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling regarding the unconstitutional nature of Prop 8, but that is up to the Appeals court to decide.  With two days to stop marriage... (Continue reading)

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First Gay Man To Marry In Argentina Dies Just Hours After Wedding

Written on 14 Aug, 2010 at 7:21 in Featured, News, Politics, World | viewed times | 1 Comment

8/14/10-by Paula Brooks Nestor Berchot, one of the first gay men to marry under Argentina’s new marriage equality law has died just hours after marrying his partner. Berchot 45, died early Friday morning after he and his husband, Gustavo Garcia, became the... (Continue reading)

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Prop 8 is Defeated: A Look Back at How it Affected One Couple

Written on 12 Aug, 2010 at 17:23 in A Gay Girl's View, Commentary, Featured, Video Posts | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 08/12/2010- by Natasia Langfelder Anne and Liz got married in California in the brief interval when same sex marriage was legal and before Prop 8 was passed. After Prop 8 passed and their union remained valid while their friends... (Continue reading)

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Phoenix Bishop Relies Upon Bible To Attack Prop 8 Ruling Forgetting About The First Amendment

Written on 11 Aug, 2010 at 14:00 in Commentary, Editorials, Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/11/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix would like to remind people that the Constitution is irrelevant and that theocracy is the only way to go. Well, actually, he wants to uphold “traditional marriage” and is upset... (Continue reading)

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El Paso Voters To Decided City’s Domestic Partnership Issue

Written on 9 Aug, 2010 at 7:15 in Election 2010, Family & Children, Featured, LGBT Rights, News, Politics | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 8/9/10-by Paula Brooks Voters in El Paso, Texas will be asked to decide if the domestic partners of city employees will be eligible for health benefits provided by the city. Last year the El Paso, Texas City Council voted 7-1... (Continue reading)

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150 Counter-Protesters Show Up At NOM Florida Rally

Written on 8 Aug, 2010 at 22:16 in Featured, LGBT Rights, News | viewed times | 1 Comment

08/08/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Today, the National Organization for Marriage stopped in Florida. Their sparsely attended Summer Of Marriage has certainly not lived up to its predecessor the Summer of Love. Today, 150 counter-protesters showed up representing fifteen LGBT... (Continue reading)

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Keith Olbermann Re-Airs Prop 8 Special Comment From 2008

Written on 4 Aug, 2010 at 21:07 in Featured, Video Posts | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/04/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Tonight, in celebration of the decision handed down by Judge Vaughn Walker, Keith Olbermann chose to rerun his special comment of 10 November 2008. It three months shy of the vote which took away the rights... (Continue reading)

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Aussie Labour Government Continues To Block Overseas Same-Sex Marriages

Written on 4 Aug, 2010 at 14:57 in Featured, LGBT Rights, News, Politics, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 8/4/10-by Paula Brooks The Labor Government of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has turned down a request from Australian marriage equality advocates to remove the ban, in place since 2005, on issuing Australians in same-sex relationships with the documents... (Continue reading)

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Eliot Spitzer Madam Wants to Run for NY Governor; Supports Same-Sex Marriage

Written on 4 Aug, 2010 at 9:59 in Election 2010, Featured, LGBT Rights, Mainstream Mix, News, Offbeat, People, Politics | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 08/04/2010- by Natasia Langfelder Screw…why does this sleezeball have to be on our side? Madam Kristin Davis, best known for supplying disgraced former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer with hookers, now is making her own bid for NY Governor. Her chances?... (Continue reading)

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Alicia Keys Married Swizz Beatz

Written on 2 Aug, 2010 at 11:15 in Celebrities, Entertainment, Featured, Music | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/02/2010- by Natasia Langfelder In news that will further crush Alicia Keys queer fanbase, the singer married babydaddy Swizz Beatz yesterday. After news got out in February that Keys was preggers, Swizz Beatz finalized his divorce from his wife and asked Keys... (Continue reading)

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