By Louis Jacob Sunday May 11 2008 If gay couples want to get married, for Christ's sake, let them. Gay marriage is going to happen someday so let them get on with it. Last week, I was visiting Kielce, an ultra-conservative city to the south of Warsaw in Poland, and I experienced what they call a 'moment of clarity'. This moment occurred while I was talking to a 24-year-old woman who has been openly homosexual, in a society that is largely hostile to gay couples, since she was 16. She struck me as a very down-to-earth ...

The Michigan Supreme Court decreed Wednesday, May 7, that the 2004 court decision against gay marriage obstructs governments and universities in Michigan offering health insurance to gay workers’ partners. The 5-2 rule hinders about 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan, which used to cover more that 375 gay couples’ need of healthcare. These organizations need to reformulate their policies, as the decision imposes that domestic partnerships not be deemed suitable for medical care. The law accepts only relationships between men and women as marriages. Conditions for other adults to be eligible ...

Who said gay love doesn't last a lifetime? It appears that with an increasing number of lifelong same-sex commitments the tragic days depicted in The Well of Loneliness and A Boy's Own Story are fading into the melodramatic shadows of the past. full story here ...

We always knew kids cost money, but we had no idea! With more and more same-sex couples finding and impregnating surrogates, fertility clinics and the such are simply raking it in, as revealed in an AFP article today: An ever-growing number of gay couples are paying tens of thousands of dollars to have surrogate mothers carry their babies, turning America’s concept of traditional family on its head. … To fulfill their dream of parenthood, [many couples] to Circle Surrogacy, a company that helps people find egg donors and host mothers and navigate through the legal and medical insurance process. “It is a very ...

I happened upon this interesting piece in the New York Times profiling young gay couples who decide to get married. While those interviewed occupied privileged positions of race, gender and class, it offered a glimpse into the decisions behind committing oneself to another in the name of love. When I think of marriage, I think of middle-aged white men and women standing in front of a clerk, but never young adults, most fresh out of college. As a queer male, the idea of marriage was never completely elusive, but was still somehow quite beyond reach. The article did seem to purport ...

STATE COLLEGE - While four homosexual couples from Penn State said, "I do," about 130 protesters assembled near the gay and lesbian commitment ceremonies yesterday to say, "We don't." In the kickoff of Pride Week for Penn State's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, two lesbian and two gay couples were ... ...

When the Labor Party came to power in Australia last year gay citizens expected them to live up to campaign promises made to enact recognition of same-sex couples. Until recently, they saw little progress. The efforts of the Australian Capital Territory to enact civil unions were met by aggressive hostility by the federal government. The biggest objection was that the ACT proposed civil unions would allow a ceremony - something viewed as too similar to marriage. Now, however, it appears that the Rudd government is willing to live up to its promise for limited rights, similar to those of ...

While you’re not likely to have 911 called on you in most cities, there are very few places in the world where gay couples can feel comfortable with themselves to the same degree as straight people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0IoOSKndcQ Expressions of violence (at the 3:30 mark) however, are especially chilling and not as uncommon as we’d like to think Also, notice the difference in reactions when it’s two women kissing. But even there, it’s not always safe in every community. ...