It was dubbed the wedding of the year. After suffering homophobic heckling at their first ceremony in August, Gary Jackson and Oscar de la Salas’ October wedding redo in Coronado received many column inches in the press. Their story is well-known and Jackson and de la Salas became media celebrities. What is less well-known are…
http://youtu.be/ZVFMG8y2G7M A Phoenix gay couple, who were heckled at their first wedding in Coronado back in August were cheered as they took part in a “do over” of their wedding, yesterday at the Coronado Loews. Local resident, Alisa Kerr had contacted the couple by email and along with Cerissa Keiffer, Rita Alipour and Kate Blumenthal…
http://youtu.be/In3q9kiVFbM In this year of marriage equality, up pops a Facebook post of one sister’s gift to her gay brother on his wedding. This sister got an old Bert and Ernie pop-up book and reworked with pictures of her brother, husband and their entire wedding party. The post states: “My brother finally got the chance to marry the…
With last week’s historic decisions from the Supreme Court on DOMA and Proposition 8 as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the Prop. 8 stay lifted, same-sex marriage is back in California. In addition, by ruling DOMA unconstitutional, the Court said the federal government will now recognize same-sex marriages in states where…
Olympia, WA (KCPQ-CNN) — State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit Tuesday against Arlene’s Flowers and Gifts of Richland, Wash., for refusing to provide wedding flowers for a same-sex marriage ceremony. The Attorney General’s Office said that on March 1, Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers, refused to provide wedding flowers to…
Jet magazine, the nation’s pre-eminent African American biweekly magazine, has featured a gay couple in its Dec. 10 issue as part of its December Jet Love wedding series The biweekly feature, which traditionally showcases straight couples featured Dr. Ravi Perry and Paris Prince and included a short bio of the couple and explains how the…
EDINBURGH, Scotland – An Episcopal church located on one of Edinburgh’s busiest streets, Princes St., has unveiled a gay wedding mural. St John’s Church chose the topic for the mural which shows two men with one about to place a ring on the other’s finger under the words “God is love.” Associate Rector of the…
It’s another foiled attempt for anti-gay group One Million Moms. Earlier this week, the group urged their fan base, which does not have one million members, to boycott Toys ‘R’ Us following the sale of the Archie Comic Gay Wedding issue – the most recent comic book in the series which features a gay couple…
Blood may be thicker than water, but it won’t help Newt Gingrich get more votes now that his sister has announced she will vote for President Obama in the next election. “He is definitely on the wrong side of history when it comes to those issues,” Candace Gingrich-Jones told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Gingrich-Jones, 45, is…
