London Mayor Boris Johnson: Marriage equality? Why not?
Posted on Jul 07, 2010 at 02:30 pm
Mayor of London Boris Johnson says he supports the freedom to marry and wants to be mayor again for Worldpride, which London will be hosting in 2012.
Video: Spanish Prime Minister on the importance of the freedom to marry
Posted on Jul 07, 2010 at 01:10 pm
Excerpts from a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero about the importance and value of marriage equality. The video is subtitled in English.
Mexico City sees 271 weddings of same-sex couples in 4 months
Posted on Jul 07, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Mexico City has seen 271 gay and lesbian couples get married since the capital enacted the first law in Latin America explicitly honoring marriages of same-sex couples.
Video: Argentian (Spanish language/subtitled) ad in support of the freedom to marry
Posted on Jul 07, 2010 at 08:10 am
Check out this powerful ad (Spanish language/subtitled) in support of the freedom to marry in Argentina.
Interesting connections to the past and their relevance to marriage equality today are highlighted.
UK considers religious ceremonies for same-sex couples
Posted on Jul 06, 2010 at 05:00 pm
Britain's government is considering letting same-sex couples include religious elements in civil partnership ceremonies.
Gay U.S. citizens seek to claim residency for foreign spouses
Posted on Jul 06, 2010 at 01:45 pm
An immigration reform measure proposed by an Illinois congressman would give the foreign partners of gay U.S. citizens a route to citizenship.
Spain celebrates 5 years of the freedom to marry
Posted on Jul 06, 2010 at 11:30 am
Spain's marriage equality law turned five on July 3. Passage of the law in the Roman Catholic nation turned Spain into a gay rights leader.
Since then, 10,317 male couples and 5,063 female couples have married, 1.55% of the nation's total marriages, Madrid-based daily 'El Pais' reported.
Voice for Equality: Kylie Minogue
Posted on Jul 06, 2010 at 10:20 am
Kylie Minogue is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera "Neighbours" before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987. Her first single, "Locomotion", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest selling single of the decade. Minogue returned to prominence in 2000 with the single "Spinning Around" and the dance-oriented album "Light Years", and she performed during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Her music videos showed a more sexually provocative and flirtatious personality and several hit singles followed. "Can't Get You Out of My Head" reached number one in more than 40 countries, and the album Fever (2001) was a hit throughout the world, including the United States, a market in which Minogue had previously received little recognition.
In June of 2010, Ms. Minogue told a million-strong crowd at Madrid Pride what she thought about the freedom to marry: "Well, I think it should be allowed! I mean, how many countries have caught up with it by now? The earth didn’t cave in. If it’s love, it’s love. And that’s it. That’s all that matters."
Partnership bill breaks substantial new ground
Posted on Jul 02, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Ireland's Civil Partnership Bill will give lesbian and gay couples access to a range of protections in fields such as property, social welfare, pensions, power of attorney, pensions, and taxes.
Argentina’s Senate rejects call for referendum on the freedom to marry
Posted on Jul 01, 2010 at 09:30 am
Members of the Argentine Senate have rejected a call by the Roman Catholic Church to put a marriage equality bill up for a vote, La Nacion reported.