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One beneficial byproduct of the Tea Party movement, and the economic recession period generally, is the subsiding of the nation’s bitter culture wars. The Tea Partiers sought to downplay social issues in order to unite a board tent under the banner of...
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Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The 5th Texas Court...
made popular Sep 1 2010
In a press release, the Archdiocese of Mexico City criticized the country’s Supreme Court for ruling in favor of the constitutionality of same-sex “marriage” in...
made popular Aug 10 2010
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who...
made popular Aug 7 2010
Mexico City’s gay community has in recent decades turned the capital into a relative oasis in a strongly Catholic country reknowned for its conservatism and...
made popular Jul 29 2010
Thousands of demonstrators opposed to same-sex marriage have gathered outside Argentina’s congress ahead of a key vote by lawmakers.
Supporters of the measure...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Lawsuits over gay marriage have escalated on the nation’s two coasts, energizing advocates on both sides and bringing the legal battle over same-sex marriage...
made popular Jul 14 2010
The federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define the institution and therefore denies married gay...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir has married her long-term partner, her office said on Monday, making her the world’s first national leader with a...
made popular Jun 29 2010
Laura Bush - like most southerners and Texans of her time - was raised in a Democratic household. But when she met and married George W. Bush she had to change party...
made popular May 17 2010
The reactions of those gathered outside the congress chamber clearly signalled which way the vote had gone. On one side, gay rights activists sang, cheered and waved...
made popular May 11 2010
Official figures show that 88 gay couples have married in Mexico City since same-sex marriage was legalised last month.
made popular Apr 9 2010
In a bold step that took the state by complete surprise, a gay couple went ahead and tied the nuptial knot. A small step by two individuals but a giant stride for the...
made popular Mar 26 2010
Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in...
made popular Mar 15 2010
A law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry comes into effect on Thursday in Mexico City.
The law, which was passed by the city’s local assembly in December,...
made popular Mar 5 2010
On Friday, Mexico’s Supreme Court chose to dismiss three of six challenges facing Mexico City’s gay marriage law. The legislation, which was passed in...
made popular Feb 22 2010
Five homosexual couples had a symbolic wedding in Peru on Valentine’s Day, as part of their public actions advocating for their legal rights to get married.
The...
made popular Feb 16 2010
The widespread controversy over gay rights in Africa continues as protests in Mtwapa, Kenya, brought a halt to what was hoped to be the country’s first gay...
made popular Feb 16 2010
Police in Malawi say they have arrested a man in what they describe as a sweep against homosexuals.
There is a debate over gay rights in this conservative southern...
made popular Feb 16 2010
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The Malawi authorities have told gay activists who put up posters and distribute leaflets on the streets anonymously to “come out in the open”.
Government...
made popular Feb 10 2010
Angela Alfarache and Ivonne Cervantes met at a party 16 years ago and have been a couple ever since, filling their lives with books and writing and friends. After their...
made popular Feb 10 2010
Federal prosecutors in Mexico City announced yesterday they would seek to overturn the city’s new gay marriage law on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. A...
made popular Feb 4 2010
When the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage in the summer of 2008, proponents were ecstatic. Although California would not be the first state to...
made popular Jan 16 2010
Portugal’s parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.
made popular Jan 9 2010
A Ugandan lawmaker on Friday refused to withdraw proposed legislation that would impose the death penalty for some gays and lesbians despite international condemnation...
made popular Jan 9 2010
Two Malawian men became the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday, risking arrest in the conservative southern African...
made popular Dec 30 2009
Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights,...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the...
made popular Dec 5 2009
An Argentine judge put a hold Monday on another court’s decision to permit the first gay marriage in Latin America, but supporters of the couple said they would...
made popular Dec 1 2009
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Maine residents will have their say Tuesday in the nationwide debate over gay marriage. Voters there will decide whether or not to uphold a law that was signed in May...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Thuggish Liberalism. That is the phrase conservative columnist George Will has coined to describe the left-wing’s new war on opponents. Liberals like to feign...
made popular Nov 2 2009
A while back I wrote about the ambitious of San Francisco’s mayor to become governor of California:
The young mayor captured national attention in early 2004...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Specter is not gay lest the title mislead you. But he is a shameless opportunist. Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican senator and this year switched back to a...
made popular Oct 28 2009
The fierce fight over same-sex marriage in California and elsewhere is creating pressure to recognize a new free-speech right that could keep petition signatures...
made popular Oct 26 2009
The Census is one of those all American rituals like barbecues on the Fourth of July or blaming fretting that some new group or foreigners is plotting to take over the...
made popular Jun 29 2009
It was almost become like clockwork. Republicans who have spent years preaching morality and against the “decadence” of liberal culture, feminism and gay...
made popular Jun 18 2009
I’m not gay. I know barely one iota about what it’s like to be gay. But I’ve heard bits and pieces. And some of those bits say, it’s not so easy...
made popular May 27 2009
The Politics of Protesting Gay Marriage in America
In seemingly unending arguments for or against gay marriage in America, we hear continual reverberations of...
made popular Jan 23 2009
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