Australia kicks off weeks-long same-sex marriage ballot
Australia on Tuesday launched a postal vote on whether to legalise same-sex marriage as a widely watched poll indicated the country would be overwhelmingly in...
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Malta legalises same-sex marriage
Maltese lawmakers voted on Wednesday to legalise same-sex marriage on the Roman Catholic Mediterranean island, fulfilling Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s campaign promise to make this...
Australian govt backs away from gay marriage vote this year
By Jane Wardell and Peter Gosnell Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull backed away from a pledge by one of his senior ministers on Sunday that...
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage nationwide
By Lawrence Hurley The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to...
Irish gay marriage vote “defeat for humanity”, Vatican official says
The Irish vote to allow same-sex marriage was a “defeat for humanity”, a senior Vatican official has said in the first high-level reaction from the...
Irish vote on gay marriage in landmark referendum
By Padraic Halpin The Irish voted on Friday on whether to allow gay marriage, just two decades after Ireland became the last country in Western...
Irish voters set to back gay marriage
By Conor Humphries Irish voters are set to back the introduction of gay marriage by a margin of more than two-to-one next week and become...
Federal judge strikes down Virginia’s ban on gay marriage
A federal judge struck down Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional late on Thursday, saying it denied gay couples a fundamental freedom to marry....
U.S. top court halts gay marriage in Utah at least temporarily
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday halted same-sex marriages in Utah – permitted for less than three weeks – while the state appeals a lower-court...
US Supreme Court delivers wins for gay marriage movement
By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by recognizing that married gay men and women...
Vincent and Bruno tie the knot, a first in France
By Catherine Bremer Two men married each other in the southern French city of Montpellier on Wednesday, in the first same-sex wedding in a country...