All posts tagged "marriage"
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Card's Game
One of my few hard and fast rules of life is ''Always bring a book.'' It fills up all those interstitial moments in life spent...
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DREAMer's Post-DOMA Big Day
Tuesday was a day of celebration for Prerna Lal. Not only was it her wedding day, but she also had the opportunity to make a...
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Celebration and song after the Supreme Court's marriage equality decisions [video]
Metro Weekly talks with those gathered outside the Supreme Court to get their reactions on DOMA, Prop 8 and the state of LGBT rights in...
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Council Committee Passes Two Pro-LGBT Bills
The D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety passed two bills intended to benefit members of the LGBTI community Thursday, allowing District residents...
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Nearly three-quarters say gay marriage is inevitable
Nearly three quarters of Americans – 72 percent – say legal recognition of same-sex marriage is “inevitable,” according to a study released Thursday by the...
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Work Ahead for Marriage
When the Illinois marriage-equality bill was not brought up for a vote on May 31, anti-gay obsessives like Brian Brown of National Organization for Marriage...
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College Republicans assess youth support for gay marriage vs. GOP platform
“Legitimate rape.” “Binders of women.” “47 percent.” A lot of quotes can highlight the Republican missteps in the 2012 presidential election, but perhaps Texas Gov....
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Backlash to the Future
France is such a strange country. I don't say that from first-hand experience of strolling the streets of Paris — my only brief time there...
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Brazil’s National Council of Justice approves gay marriage
“This is the equivalent of authorizing homosexual marriage in Brazil.” Raquel Pereira de Castro Araujo, who heads the human rights committee of the Brazilian Bar...
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Minnesota will become 12th state to legalize gay marriage
Minnesota will become the 12th state to allow same-sex couples to marry after the Minnesota Senate approved marriage-equality legislation with a 37-30 vote today. The...
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Get divorced or get out, South African lesbian couple told by child’s school
Kally and Samantha Mabe, a married couple in South Africa, have been told by their child’s school that unless they end their “lifestyle choice” their...
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Accidental Activism
When I met my husband, Kelly Vielmo, almost 11 years ago, neither of us did anything that might be labeled ''activism'' on behalf of gay...
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French National Assembly approves marriage equality
“The April 23, 2013, vote marks a new step toward equality for all couples and all families.” Inter-LGBT, an umbrella organization of several French LGBT...
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Immigration Reform, Marriage and Gay Rights
Like basically every other white person who happens to be a citizen of the United States of America, I'm the product of immigration. I come...
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New Zealand becomes 13th nation to legalize same-sex marriage
“In our society, the meaning of marriage is universal — it’s a declaration of love and commitment to a special person. Nothing could make me...
