New Jersey begins gay 'weddings'
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Gay couples in New Jersey get new legal rights as it becomes the latest US state to offer civil unions.
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Nearly a week after New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey came out as gay during his resignation speech, many LGBT rights organizations remain largely supportive of the embattled governor and his decision to step down.
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Gov. John Lynch signed a law Thursday establishing civil unions for same-sex couples in New Hampshire, allowing them to apply for the same rights as married people as early as January.
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LIKE the rings of Dante&#39;s &quot;Inferno,&quot; there are circles of gossip as defined, in their wispy way, as smoke rings. So consider the odd way that James E. McGreevey&#39;s announcement last week that he was gay and would step down as governor ...
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Gay and lesbian Asians are marrying people of the opposite sex to conform to traditional values.
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A California law taking effect with the new year gives gay couples who register as domestic partners nearly the same responsibilities and benefits as married spouses.
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Dream weddings are happening throughout June in city parks and gardens and the center of Times Square.
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Dozens of gay and lesbian couples entered into civil unions in New Hampshire in the early moments of New Year's Day as a new state law legalized the partnerships after midnight.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 27 -- New Jersey this week launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the country to control mother-to-child transmission of HIV, making screening tests mandatory for all pregnant women in the state beginning next year.
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A New York appeals court ruled on Friday that valid same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries must be recognized in New York, the first known ruling of its kind in the country, a rights group said.
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Conservative groups in New Jersey are pushing a proposal that would grant the rights of marriage &#151; but not the title &#151; to gays, siblings and others involved in domestic partnerships.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Supreme Court touched off fresh controversy over gay rights yesterday when it ordered the government to register same-sex marriages of couples who wed abroad. The ruling by a seven-judge panel, though limited in scope, reignited a debate over the rights of homosexuals in Israel. The 6-to-1 decision was hailed by rights advocates as a political advance ...
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SASKATOON (CP) - Gay couples may now tie the knot in more than half of the provinces and territories in Canada after a Saskatchewan court ruled Friday that the traditional definition of marriage is unconstitutional.
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Gay couples in New Jersey get new legal rights as it becomes the third US state to offer civil unions.
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Gay couples who legally married elsewhere will have all the rights of married people in New Jersey, but they can't call themselves married, the state's attorney general decided Friday.
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A Rhode Island lesbian couple on Friday won approval from a judge to marry in Massachusetts, paving the way for the first legal wedding of a same-sex couple from outside the only U.S. state where gay marriage is allowed.
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A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a "second-class status" for gay couples, rather than giving them equality.