Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black has married his partner, British Olympic diver Tom Daley. The BBC reported that the couple got married in a service at a luxury hotel on Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Daley shared a picture of the wedding on Facebook posting, “Thank you to everyone who made this weekend…
A same-sex couple that appeared in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign launch video tied the knot Sunday. CBS Chicago reported that Jared Milrad and Nathan Johnson were surrounded by family and friends at Montrose Harbor Sunday afternoon but absent, though, was the presidential candidate. They sent her a Twitter invitation to their wedding today right after…
Sir Elton John has today tied the knot with his civil partner David Furnish, reports Pink News. The veteran singer entered into a civil partnership with Furnish in 2005, and the pair are fathers to sons Zachary and Elijah. After regulations came in last week governing the conversion of civil partnerships to marriages, the pair made…
Today the Supreme Court of the United States denied a stay of the Ninth Circuit decision striking down Idaho’s marriage equality ban, allowing marriage equality to take effect in Idaho. The state still has the option to petition the Supreme Court for certiorari. However, the state cannot refuse to grant same-sex couples marriage licenses pending…
NEW YORK – At its annual meeting today in Dallas, the U.S. Conference of Mayors overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on federal courts, including the Supreme Court, to expeditiously bring an end to marriage discrimination against gay couples nationwide. Mayors from states that still ban marriage for same-sex couples, including Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Colorado, Missouri,…
April 1, Oregon United for Marriage submitted an amicus brief in the Rummell v Kitzhaber marriage equality case, noting that if the judge ruled in a way that allowed for same-sex couples to marry by May 23, the campaign would not submit the 160,000 signatures gathered to put a marriage equality measure on the ballot….
Today U.S. District Judge John E. Jones, III ruled that Pennsylvania’s law banning marriage equality is unconstitutional. Pennsylvania becomes the tenth state where a federal judge has struck down a marriage ban since the U.S. Supreme Court issued their two marriage-related rulings last year. Just yesterday a federal judge in Oregon struck down that state’s…
U.S. District Judge Michael McShane has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in two consolidated marriage cases challenging Oregon’s ban on marriage equality, known as Measure 36. Judge McShane’s is the latest in a string of rulings striking down state laws or constitutional amendments that ban marriage for same-sex couples. The cases were both filed…
SEASIDE, Ore. – The government can’t tell you who to love, and it shouldn’t tell you who to marry. That is the message Freedom Oregon leaders took to participants at the 50th Annual Dorchester Conference in Seaside last weekend. It resulted in the first-ever endorsement of marriage equality at a Republican-dominated gathering of Oregon political…
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – New Mexico’s same-sex couples and their families can breathe a sigh of relief: their freedom to marry is secure! Yesterday’s conclusion to the battle for marriage equality in New Mexico may seem anti-climactic, but is a victory none the less. New Mexico’s legislative session ended at noon today without even a…
