Cormac Gollogly, a barrister from Terenure in Dublin and Richard Dowling, both 35, who works with AIB and is from Athlone became the first same-sex couple to tie the knot under Ireland’s new marriage equality legislation. “It’s great to be the first to do it,” said Gollogly as he gave his new husband a kiss…
The Texas Supreme Court has suspended the enforcement of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) and ordered the Houston City Council to repeal the ordinance or place it up for a vote in the November city elections. “We agree with the Relators that the City Secretary certified their petition and thereby invoked the City Council’s ministerial…
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a divorce granted in a lower court for a same-sex couple, a rare decision in a state that has a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, reports Reuters. The court ruled that state authorities, who tried to block the divorce, did not have appropriate standing in the matter and…
In honor of Father’s Day and their #RealStrength campaign, Dove has released a new ad featuring a same-sex couple. The couple is one of 13 celebrating fatherhood in the new ad titled, “First Fatherhood Moments.” According to NewNowNext.com, the couple featured is Ian and Darryl Colvin and the footage is from the documentary “Conceiving Family.”…
One Toyota, an Oakland, California-based dealership quietly began running a new television ad in the San Francisco Bay area that features, for the first time in the United States, a same-sex couple exclusively for a car commercial. The spot shows a middle-class woman sitting in her driveway speaking to someone else about her new purchase,…
We all know women love little more than planning events, so I wasn’t at all surprised when my girlfriend broached the subject of Halloween in June. “What should we dress up as?” she asked. “Halloween? Summer just arrived – I’m worried about what kind of vegan cuisine we’ll BBQ on the Fourth,” I started in…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — While same-sex couples across the country fight for the right to marry, others are fighting for the right to divorce. A patchwork of state marriage laws and the federal Defense of Marriage Act has made the process of unraveling a relationship extremely difficult — and expensive. A same-sex couple who marries…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Many same-sex couples are losing out on thousands of dollars a year in Social Security benefits because the federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage, a new report finds. When a partner dies, the surviving spouse in a same-sex couple isn’t eligible for the average $1,184 in monthly survivor’s benefits that widow’s…
TYROL, Austria – Chretien van der Leest and Edwin Veldt are Dutch citizens living in Tyrol, Austria where they run holiday homes. When the Netherlands legalized marriage for same-sex couples in 2001, the couple married. However in Austria, based on a decree by the Austrian minister of the interior van der Leest and Veldt’s marriage…
PASADENA, Calif. (CNN) – When President Barack Obama formally ended “don’t ask, don’t tell” in July 2011, ending a 17-year ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military, Tracey Cooper-Harris felt liberated about her future as a veteran. As a sergeant in the U.S. Army, she received more than two dozen medals and commendations…
