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All Posts Tagged With: "gay marriage"

First gay marriage in Argentina set for August 13

(AFP) BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s first gay marriage under a law passed this week was set for August 13 between a 61-year-old man and his 60-year-old partner, officials said Friday. The first union was authorized by municipal officials in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires for actor Ernesto Rodriguez Larrese, 60, and Alejandro Vanelli, 61, [...]

17Jul2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Lady Gaga coming to New Jersey to support gay marriage

Garden State Equality is one of several groups who will benefit from the Atlantic City event BY JEN CALANTONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The eccentric pop-star Lady Gaga will be bringing her “poker face” to the House of Blues at the Showboat Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City on Jan. 16 — but it won’t be to promote [...]

16Jan2010 | Sara | 2 comments | Continued

Is Transgender on Your Agenda?

Ethiopian Review As first days on the job go, Amanda Simpson’s, on Wednesday of this week, was a doozy. Just appointed Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security, Simpson took on the challenge of beefing up homeland, economic, and cyber security just as public concern about our transportation system’s [...]

8Jan2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Chamblee to protect gay workers

By April Hunt The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Chamblee has become the latest Georgia city – all of them at least partially in DeKalb County – to prohibit discrimination against gay and lesbian municipal workers. Atlanta, Clarkston, Decatur and Doraville are the other cities in the state to offer such protection to workers. “If you’re gay or [...]

16Dec2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

New York state lawmakers reject gay marriage bill

By MICHAEL GORMLEY (AP) ALBANY, N.Y. — New York lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage, stunning advocates who weathered a similar decision by Maine voters just last month. The New York measure needed 32 votes to pass and failed by a wider-than-expected margin, falling [...]

3Dec2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Latin America’s first gay marriage thwarted

By VANESSA HAND ORELLANA, Associated Press Writer BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine couple’s attempt to unite in Latin America’s first gay marriage was thwarted Tuesday when city officials decided to block the wedding because of conflicting judicial rulings. Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre showed up at the Buenos Aires civil registry office despite [...]

2Dec2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Buenos Aires grants first marriage license to gays

By VANESSA HAND ORELLANA (AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina’s capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage. Jose Maria Di Bello and his partner Alex Freyre won the right to get married when a judge ruled last week that [...]

17Nov2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Uruguay congress legalizes sex changes

(AFP) MONTEVIDEO — Uruguay’s congress Monday approved a sex change law, the latest liberal move by the tiny South American nation which has also given the nod to civil unions for gays and adoptions by gay couples. The sex change bill, approved by the Senate on Monday and last month by the Chamber of Deputies, [...]

12Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

American Labor Movement Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Workers

AFL-CIO Convention Passes Historic Resolution on Diversity From Windy City Times PITTSBURGH, PA — If there were any doubts that the American labor movement stands strongly in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights, they were set to rest the minute former United Mine Workers president Richard L. Trumka took the [...]

23Sep2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk is calling for an October march on Washington to demand that Congress establish equal rights for the lesbian, gay and transgender community. Cleve Jones said Sunday in Salt Lake City that the march will launch a nationwide grass roots [...]

7Jun2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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