Portugal’s parliament has passed a motion overturning the presidential veto on a bill legalizing adoption by same-sex couples, reports Reuters. President Anibal Cavaco Silva will now have to sign the bill into law before his term ends in March. The motion was passed by 137 votes in the 230-seat parliament, bringing together the ruling Socialists,…
CHICAGO — Cohabitating couples are splitting up with the help of lawyers in a growing number of relationships. According to 45% of members in a recent survey of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), legal disputes between unmarried couples who had previously lived together are on the rise during the past three years. A significant…
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Megan Robbins, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, is looking to recruit 150 same- and opposite-sex married (or marriage-like) couples for a new study that will look at how couples interact in their daily lives. “I became interested in how lesbian and gay couples communicate after a study…
Today, the European Court on Human Rights ruled that all signatories to the European Convention of Human Rights – including countries like Turkey and Russia, where discrimination and violence against LGBT people has recently made headlines – should recognize same-sex partnerships. This ruling, which could impact 47 countries, and 800 million people, is a major…
The Culture Wars are really over. Most Americans believe gay people should marry, abortion should be legal, contraception readily available. So, what is a lost culture warrior to do? Americans also believe in religious freedom. So, the answer is to recast yourself as defending religious freedom. After all, you can’t trump a civil or privacy right with a political…
An attempt by Russia to deny benefits to same-sex partners of United Nations (UN) staff has been pushed back in an overwhelming vote affirming the right of the UN to set its own internal policies, writes Jean Freedberg on the HRC Blog. Last June, LGBT advocates hailed the policy announcement by Secretary General Ban ki-Moon…
After intervention today by representatives of the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the Texas Military Forces clarified that three same-sex couples should not have been denied assistance at the federal military identification card enrollment center at Camp Mabry, the headquarters of the Texas Military Forces, near Austin, Texas, writes Chris Rowzee on the AMPA Blog. All…
A San Diego man and his partner made history yesterday when they became the first male same-sex couple to be chosen for the ceremonial first kiss during the homecoming of submarine warship USS San Francisco. The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS San Francisco (SSN 711) returned to its home port at Naval Base Point…
At first blush, an article from the Salt Lake Tribune by Peggy Fletcher Stack reads like something you might find on TheOnion.com: Gay men – or in Mormon parlance ‘same-sex attracted’ – who marry heterosexual woman are two-to-three times more likely than opposite couples to call it quits. It’s tempting to shrug it off with…
As part of a promotion for Richmond tourism, one same-sex couple will win the wedding of a lifetime to be held March 7 at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, a 50-acre stretch of land located in the northern part of the city, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. According to the article, “Sponsors are covering the cost…
