Category Archives: Marriage Around the World

Australia’s Marriage Equality Fight

August 3, 2009 – 10:17 am

Australia has had a notably convoluted relationship between its gay rights activists and its politicians. A post over at Eideard put it all into layman’s terms:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election on a platform that supported the former conservative government’s legal definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Rudd, who [...]

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Love and Lives in South Africa

July 21, 2009 – 11:00 am

From this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, a beautiful firsthand account of a marriage ceremony between two gay men in South Africa.

The honesty with which the writer, Mark Gevisser, recounts his experience, and the strangeness of entering a historical juxtaposition, can move anyone. It defines the humanity behind the fight for same-sex marriage in [...]

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Venezuelan Marriage Equality - Huh?

July 16, 2009 – 12:06 pm

From the gay rights news site Edge:
Ten years ago, the Catholic Church so vehemently opposed the inclusion of equality language for GLBTs in a reform of Venezuela’s constitution that those protections were excluded from the country’s bedrock law.
Now Catholic Bishops are protesting legislation, the “Organic Law for Gender Equity and Equality,” which they say would [...]

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