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Taiwan Passes Bill Allowing Gay Couples to Adopt Children

By |2023-05-17T11:57:34-07:00May 17th, 2023|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Asia, World LGBT News|Tags: , , , , , |

TAIPEI CITY, TW — (05-17-23) — Taiwan's parliament has passed a bill allowing same-sex married couples to adopt children, four years after same-sex marriage was legalized on the self-governing islands. Gay and lesbian couples will now be able to legally adopt children in Taiwan, after the island’s legislature voted in favor of the change on [...]

SCOTUS to hear Wedding Site Designer’s Case Refusing Gay Couples

By |2022-02-22T14:11:48-08:00February 22nd, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON D.C. — (02-22-22) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday, to review an argument in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case about a Colorado wedding website designer's refusal to make her services available for same-sex weddings.  Nearly four years after the SCOTUS declined to decide whether compelling a Colorado [...]

Court Rejects Appeal of Web Designer who Refused To Design Gay Couples’ Websites

By |2021-07-31T08:34:16-07:00July 31st, 2021|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , |

DENVER, CO — (07-31-21) — A Colorado based homophobic web designer lost her challenge to Colorado's anti-discrimination law last week in a suit she filed against the state because she didn't want to design wedding websites for gay couples. Last Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled 2 – 1 the [...]

Oklahoma Adoption Bill Against Gay Couples Passes

By |2018-05-04T10:55:39-07:00May 4th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , |

Oklahoma adoption bill passed the state house and is now on the governor's desk to either sign it or veto the discriminating bill against Gay couples seeking to provide a home for a child. The Republican-controlled Oklahoma House of Representatives passed an adoption bill that critics have called discriminating against same-sex couples on Thursday May [...]

German Gay Couples Wed As Marriage Law Takes Effect

By |2023-01-22T12:01:30-08:00October 1st, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Europe, World LGBT News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer GERMANY - After German government passed its historic new law allowing same-sex marriage, the first couple Karl Kreile and Bodo Mende from Berlin, captured worldwide attention as being crowned the first two men to have become the first gay couple to marry in Germany. The timing couldn't have been more [...]

Gay Couples File Lawsuit Against Michigan Over Limits to Adopt Children

By |2017-09-25T01:57:47-07:00September 25th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Last Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued the state of Michigan over a law which allows adoption agencies to deny adoptions to gay couples on religious grounds, challenging the GOP legislative efforts that are gaining momentum in several US states. The ACLU lawsuit states that it seeks to [...]

Supreme Court Rules Gay Couples Entitled to Equal Treatment on Birth Certificates

By |2017-06-26T15:07:09-07:00June 26th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff WRiter WASHINGTON D.C — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday to reaffirmed its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right for same-sex marriage, ruling that states can not treat married same-sex couples differently from others in issuing birth certificates. As expected, the only dissents in the unsigned ruling were Justice Neil [...]

Kim Davis Snubs Order to Pay $260K in Legal Fees to Gay Couple

By |2024-01-07T12:44:21-08:00January 7th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: , , , , , , |

SALISBURY, NC — (01-07-24) — Notorious anti-gay activist Kim Davis is snubbing the federal jury order to pay $260,000 in attorney's fees to gay couple who she refused to issue a marriage license too in 2015.  When the federal jury awarded David Ermold and David Moore $100,000 in their verdict back in September 2023, Davis [...]

Pope Francis Says Church Open to Gay Community, But….

By |2023-08-07T00:46:21-07:00August 7th, 2023|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Europe|Tags: , , , , |

VATICAN CITY — (08-07-23) — Pope Francis created quite a stir on Sunday when he said that the Catholic Church was open to everyone, including the gay community. He further added that the church has a duty to accompany the gay community on a personal path of spirituality but - Within the framework of the [...]

Iowa Republicans Propose New Ban on Gay Marriage

By |2023-03-01T16:19:03-08:00March 1st, 2023|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , |

DES MOINES, IA — (03-01-23) — The Republican controlled state Legislature is considering a bill that would permit residents to deny recognition of same-sex marriages on religious grounds. Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congress codified same-sex marriage, Iowa Republicans have now proposed banning such unions in [...]

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