by Alex Greenwich | May 8, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Hours after the Delaware Senate passed marriage-equality legislation, the state’s Governor, Jack Markell, will sign the bill into law, according to Human Rights Campaign. That will make Delaware the 11th state, plus Washington, D.C., to legalise gay marriage....
by Jen | May 6, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions
On one side of the great divide, the past few days have been revolutionary. France became the 14th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, eight years after Canada did. Rhode Island became the 10th U.S. state to do so, in a fast-changing America where six...
by Alex Greenwich | May 3, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Thursday, Rhode Island became the 10th state to approve same-sex marriage, and the Delaware Legislature holds a key vote Tuesday on the same issue. But Brian Brown, president of the National Organisation for Marriage, denies there is a national tide in support of...
by Jen | May 1, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions
Some lovely people in Ireland posed the question “What would it be like if you had to ask everyone in the country for the right to get married?” Here is the video with the result.
by Jen | Apr 30, 2013 | Australian commentary, News, Overseas commentary
Murray Lipp, an Australian citizen living in NYC and administrator of the Facebook page ‘Gay Marriage USA’, discusses Australia’s slow progress towards marriage equality and the role of the nation’s Prime Minister & Opposition Leader in blocking change. Australian...
by Alex Greenwich | Apr 24, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
THE French parliament has legalised same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris. Last night’s 331-225 vote came in the Socialist majority National Assembly. France’s justice minister,...
