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.
The European court’s hidden but hopeful message on the freedom to marry
Posted on Jun 30, 2010 at 08:00 am
The right to marry remains subject primarily to national and not European law, but an Austrian couple have nudged the Council of Europe's 47 states closer to a consensus.
Iceland prime minister weds as freedom to marry legalized
Posted on Jun 28, 2010 at 02:30 pm
Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland prime minister, married her long-time partner on Sunday as a new law legalizing marriage equality came into force.
The freedom to marry is a generational issue
Posted on Jun 24, 2010 at 02:30 pm
The freedom to marry is a generational issue for several reasons, as the Newsweek correspondent and blogger Katie Connolly points out.
Obviously being from one generation or another does not prevent someone from supporting equality, but the trend is worth noting.