All Posts Tagged With: "same sex marriage"

Transsexual in Hong Kong fights to marry her boyfriend

Source: BBC News, Hong Kong In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend. The transsexual, who remains anonymous, has been blocked from doing so by the Hong Kong authorities. A Chinese woman in her twenties, identified only as [...]

9Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

A Gay Campaign? Both Sides Demur

Source: The New York Times OKLAHOMA CITY — One of the more unlikely showdowns for the fall elections is taking shape here in this staunchly conservative state, where same-sex marriage is constitutionally banned and the Legislature frequently takes on issues like abortion. Brittany Novotny, a Democrat and Oklahoma’s first known transgender candidate, is running for [...]

20Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Texas may be forced to allow a gay marriage

From dallasvoice.com There’s a fascinating little case out of El Paso in which a male-to-female transgender person is seeking to marry another woman. The Texas Tribune reports that the El Paso county attorney is requesting an opinion from AG Greg Abbott about whether the trans woman can marry another woman, given that the trans woman [...]

5May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Bureau wants same-sex couples to check the ‘married’ box on census form

By ERIC ADLER The Kansas City Star Legally, the federal government, Kansas, Missouri and 43 other states do not recognize same-sex marriages — the union of two men or two women. But one curious aspect of the 2010 U.S. Census? It does — whether gay marriage is legal or not. In fact, representatives of the [...]

8Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Spurned by Nev., transgender woman to wed in Calif

By MARTIN GRIFFITH Associated Press Writer RENO, Nev.—Danielle Pauline Severson takes female hormones, dresses and acts like a woman and plans to have sex reassignment surgery so she physically looks like a woman. Yet the pre-operative transgender female, who was born Dana Paul Severson, will have to tie the knot to a woman in California. [...]

16Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Australian Senate rejects same-sex marriage bill

By Rex Wockner – The Bay Area Reporter Australia’s Senate rejected a measure to legalize same-sex marriage February 26. The vote was 5-45. Twenty-six senators failed to vote. The bill, introduced by the Greens, was opposed by the Labor, Family First and Liberal/National/Country Liberal Coalition parties. “The coalition believes the [opposite-sex] definition of marriage, as [...]

4Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Homosexuals being used as ‘scapegoats’ by flawed governments

By Daniel Howden – New Zealand Herald A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into his “vice” with the help of foreign conspirators. His home and business addresses have been published online and he has received a string [...]

11Jan2010 | | 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual Is Argentina’s “Woman of the Year”

From Latin American Herald Tribune BUENOS AIRES – A transsexual who recently prevailed in a 10-year-long court battle to receive a new identity document recognizing her as a woman has been honored by lawmakers as Argentina’s “Woman of the Year.” “I am what I am. The right of one person is the right of all,” [...]

27Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Hong Kong plays transgender catch-up

By Kent Ewing – Asian Times HONG KONG – In the biggest challenge yet to traditional Chinese values about sex in this city of 7 million people, a male-to-female transsexual is suing the government for the right to marry her male partner. Moreover, because the plaintiff makes such a compelling case, traditionalists find themselves on [...]

17Nov2009 | | 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Rights Marchers Press Cause in Washington

By JEREMY W. PETERS – New York Times WASHINGTON — Impatient and discouraged by what they see as a certain detachment by President Obama on their issues, gay rights supporters took to the streets Sunday in the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade. The rally was primarily the undertaking of a [...]

11Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Kennedy remembered as champion of gay rights

By DENISE LAVOIE (AP) BOSTON — For decades, Edward Kennedy was considered the most powerful voice in the Senate for gay rights as a strong supporter of HIV/AIDS funding, hate crimes legislation and same-sex marriage. His death struck a blow to gay rights advocates, who say they’ve lost a key ally. “Having somebody in the [...]

27Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

FedEx delivers the goods for transgendered

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow Without a vote from shareholders, one of America’s largest corporations has decided to grant its transgender employees special protected status. Memphis-based FedEx has agreed to implement a shareholder resolution proposed by Huffington Post blogger Sara Whitman that would add “gender identity” to the company’s non-discrimination policy. Whitman is a self-proclaimed “married [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

By ABBY GOODNOUGH – New York Times BOSTON — The New Hampshire legislature approved revisions to a same-sex marriage bill on Wednesday, and Gov. John Lynch promptly signed the legislation, making the state the sixth to let gay couples wed. The bill had been through several permutations to satisfy Mr. Lynch and certain legislators that [...]

4Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Group Begins Ad Blitz Against Same-Sex Marriage

By JEREMY W. PETERS – New York Times The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative Christian group that has fought efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in California and in the Northeast, has set its sights on New York with its latest media campaign. Beginning Thursday in the New York City and Albany markets, the organization [...]

29May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tenn. unknowingly marries transgender couple; subject jailed as man, identifies as woman

By Associated Press CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo T. Rittenberry and Jeffery Scott Phillips recently learned their 18-month marriage is invalid because the state considers both to be men. Rittenberry, who is 46, was born a man but identifies as a woman and claims to have had sex reassignment surgery in Canada. Rittenberry had officials [...]

13May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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