Tag: same-sex couples
Dolce & Gabbana Break The Internet Coming Out Against Gay Parenthood, Elton John Cries Vendetta
A debate regarding same-sex couples and children was ignited over the weekend from the most unusual place: comments by openly-gay couple Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who in an interview spoke of the “classical” family saying “no [to] chemical children and [a] rented uterus.”
New rabbi marries same-sex couples
The new rabbi at Stockholm’s Stora synagoga, Ute Steyer says to the Judisk Krönika that she hopes that more same-sex couples will marry in the church.
City of West Hollywood Celebrates as 10,000th Domestic Partnership is Registered at West Hollywood City Hall
West Hollywood, in 1985, was the First City in the Nation to Pass a Domestic Partnership Ordinance. Domestic Partnership helped to pave the way for progress in marriage equality.
Same-sex Danish couple finalise first overseas adoption
A same-sex Danish couple have become the first people to adopt a child from abroad since the Scandinavian country legalised the practice in 2010.
Strasbourg ruling: divorce requirement for legal gender recognition ‘no violation of Human Rights’
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the divorce requirement for people who wish to change their legal gender and are married, is not a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. European Court of Human RightsThe Strasbourg based Court analysed the case of Finnish national Ms Hämäläinen, who was born male and married to a woman. After undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 1996, she wished to bring her official documents in line with her new gender.
Malta : Civil Unions Bill passes through Parliament
The Civil Unions Bill has been approved by Parliament in its third and final reading, with all government MPs present voting in favour of the bill while all opposition MPs abstained.