By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 14, 2010 Cocktails had been served on the terrace, the ubiquitous Washington buffet of tenderloin and salmon consumed, and the gay law students settled in to hear from the famed legal mind who is leading the battle to make sure they have the right to […]
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Five same-sex couples wed in Mexico on Thursday as Mexico City became the first Latin American city to defy religious taboos and macho stereotypes by legalizing gay marriage. The head of Mexico City’s civil registry married four couples in a simple ceremony on the patio of a colonial city hall to cheers and applause from family, […] WASHINGTON — Two same-sex couples, including two students from George Washington University, are the first to be married in the District. Tuesday is the first day same-sex couples can pick up their marriage licenses and get married. Decked out in pink ties with about a dozen friends gathered nearby, Robert Michael Hawthorne, 24, and James […] WASHINGTON — All that was missing was the rice and wedding bells as Cuc Vu and her partner Gwen Migita walked past more than 100 cheering people in Washington Wednesday after becoming the first gay couple to be issued a marriage license in the US capital. “It’s a tremendous feeling,” Vu […] LAST month, advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage packed the New Jersey State House in Trenton, supporters in blue, opponents in red. Near the end of the day, Kasey Nicholson-McFadden took the microphone. “It doesn’t bother me to tell kids my parents are gay,” he said in a clear voice. “It does bother me to […] SAN FRANCISCO — It was not the type of question that one usually hears from lawyers in federal court. “What does it mean,” Theodore B. Olson asked his client, Kristin M. Perry, “to be a lesbian?” Mr. Olson’s question came during one of several attention-grabbing moments on the first day of the trial here on […] Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California’s Proposition 8—the voter-approved measure that overturned California’s constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex. My involvement in this case has generated a certain degree of consternation among conservatives. How could a politically active, lifelong Republican, […] TRENTON — After 90 minutes of impassioned debate that invoked the sweep of American history, the state Senate today voted down a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey. Gay-rights advocates immediately said they would bring their campaign to the courts. The final tally — with 20 senators opposing the measure, 14 supporting it […]
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) — Less than one month after a Buenos […] The most significant thing about the new, anti-gay “Manhattan Declaration” is not that scores of Christians are against gay rights. It’s that, recognizing they’re on the wrong side of history, they tie themselves in knots insisting they’re not anti-gay. And in doing so, they reveal the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their obsessive persecution […] |
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