All Posts Tagged With: "same sex marriages"

Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid

(AFP) HONG KONG — A Hong Kong transsexual has launched a landmark court challenge to win the right to marry her boyfriend after city officials blocked the move, a report said Sunday. The Chinese woman in her 20s — who was born a man — was denied the right to marry her male partner by [...]

8Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Texas mom challenges transgender widow’s marriage

By JUAN A. LOZANO (AP) HOUSTON — The family of a southeast Texas firefighter killed in a July 4 blaze has sued to void his marriage to his transgender widow and prevent her from getting his death benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages. The attorney for the mother [...]

24Jul2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Transexuals Take Leading Role in Madrid’s Gay Pride Parade

Source: Latin American Herald Tribune MADRID – Thousands of people paraded Saturday through downtown Madrid in a festive, colorful march giving visibility of transexuals, a group that took the leading role in this year’s Gay Pride demonstration in Spain. The parade attracted, according to the organizers – the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transexuals and [...]

4Jul2010 | | 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

Argentina hosts first gay marriage in Latin America

(AFP) – BUENOS AIRES — Two Argentine men on Tuesday became the first homosexuals to legally marry in Latin America, after the governor of the country’s southernmost Tierra del Fuego province permitted their wedding. “We got married today in Ushuaia,” an exultant Alex Freyre told the Todos Noticias news channel in Buenos Aires by telephone. [...]

30Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Japan allows its citizens same-sex marriage abroad

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan has given the green light for its nationals to marry same-sex foreign partners in countries where gay marriage is legal, a justice ministry official said Friday. Japan does not allow same-sex marriages at home and has so far also refused to issue a key document required for citizens to wed overseas [...]

27Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Australian Legislators Back Gay Rights

By MERAIAH FOLEY SYDNEY, Australia — Australian lawmakers have approved legislation giving homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexuals but have ruled out legalizing same-sex marriages. The Senate passed amendments late Monday to around 100 family, health and taxation laws that give homosexual couples access to the same services as opposite-sex couples living together in [...]

25Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Protesting Ban on Gay Marriage

By THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of people marched through the streets here Friday night to protest the passage on Tuesday of Proposition 8, a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage. The march, which began near City Hall, snaked down the city’s main artery, Market Street, to the Castro district, a bastion of [...]

8Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued