Online competition begins for all-expense paid same sex wedding
Posted on Jun 09, 2010 at 11:19 am
In honor of the passage of the DC Marriage Equality Act, a group of prominent Washington-area wedding vendors have teamed up to offer a same sex couple the wedding of a lifetime, valued at over $100,000.
The first of its kind – Freedom2Wed – is an online wedding competition for same sex couples.
DC Marriage Profile: ‘I made her talk to me and open up.’
Posted on Jun 09, 2010 at 06:58 am
Ellen McCarthy profiles a lesbian couple, Kevia Shepard and Shannette Matthews, who recently were married in Washington, D.C.
Rush: ‘Congrats on #4 from those of us who can’t have 1’
Posted on Jun 07, 2010 at 06:28 pm
In response to Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding over the weekend, web site Gawker.com hired a plane to fly over the wedding site towing a banner that read "Rush: Congrats on your 4th marriage. XO, Gawker."
The message on the banner was chosen from suggestions made by readers which included: "This time he really means it," "Wishing you months of bliss," and the ironic freedom to marry angle: "Congrats on #4 from those of us who can't have 1."
Lesbian couple weds in Portugal’s first marriage of a same-sex couple
Posted on Jun 07, 2010 at 04:11 pm
A lesbian couple wed Monday in Portugal's first ceremony for a same-sex couple since the predominantly Catholic country introduced a law honoring the freedom to marry last month.
Looking back on the hoopla
Posted on Jun 04, 2010 at 07:30 am
On the eve of this weekend’s Black Pride festivities, the Blade checked in with two of the first same-sex couples who wed here in March to find out how they’re doing now that the hoopla has subsided, how they’ve fared as gay or lesbian couples among their black friends and families and their thoughts on the importance of Black Pride.
“Glee” star Jane Lynch is a married woman
Posted on Jun 02, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Jane Lynch and Lara Embry who were married over the weekend in Massachusetts – one of five states in the US (plus the District of Columbia) where the freedom to marry is legal.
Video: Anna Huang and Alison Stocking: First female couple in New York Times ‘Vows” video series
Posted on Jun 02, 2010 at 07:00 am
Anna Huang and Alison Stocking, the first female couple featured in the Vows video series, never doubted their love despite all kinds of difficulties.
Same-sex couple takes second place in Crate & Barrel wedding contest
Posted on May 25, 2010 at 07:00 am
They may not have walked away with the grand prize, but Gregory Jones and Jonathan Howard are thrilled with their second-place finish in the Crate & Barrel Ultimate Wedding Contest.
Malawi gay conviction is alarming precedent: UN
Posted on May 21, 2010 at 09:08 am
The UN human rights chief on Friday slammed the "blatantly discriminatory" jailing of a gay couple in Malawi, saying that it sets an alarming precedent for the treatment of homosexuals in the region.
"I am shocked and dismayed by the sentence and reports of the treatment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga while in detention," said Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
2,020 marriages of same-sex couples recorded in Iowa since last April
Posted on May 20, 2010 at 07:00 am
Out-of-staters made up 60 percent of same-sex couples married in Iowa since the freedom to marry became legal in April 2009, state officials reported Tuesday.