A Gay Awakening – What Accounts For The Dramatic Shift In Favour Of Same-Sex Marriage Across The United States?

by Jen | Nov 28, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas commentary

The fall of 1995 does not really seem all that long ago, does it? To me, it is as vivid as yesterday, yet also ancient as Babylon. I am walking with my father in Belfast, Ireland, and he is urging me to abandon my rash idea, which is to write in support of same-sex...

Ten Years Ago, The Supreme Judicial Court Legalised Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts

by Jen | Nov 19, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, World news

Ten years ago today, the Supreme Judicial Court made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. On November 18, 2003, the court declared, in an opinion by Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, ”that barring an individual from the protections, benefits and...

November 18th: 10 Years Of MA Marriage – Goodridge at 10: celebrating a landmark ruling and a decade of marriage equality

by Jen | Nov 19, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, World news

A look at the historic November 18, 2003 ruling in GLAD’s case Goodridge v. DPH which made Massachusetts the first state in the U.S. where same-sex couples could marry. The video celebrates the powerful and beautiful decision authored by then Chief Justice...

Hawaii Marriage Equality Effort Moves Forward As Governor Gives Lawmakers Draft Legislation

by Jen | Aug 30, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) attempted to nudge state lawmakers into action on Wednesday, releasing a draft of a bill that would make his state the 14th to legalize gay marriage. The legislation, based off a bill that stalled earlier this year in the state Senate,...

First Gay Couple, Sergio and Rodolfo Officially Married In Uruguay

by Jen | Aug 28, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news

The first gay couple to register to marry in Uruguay when a new equal marriage law took effect on 5 August, have married as gay rights activists celebrate in the country. Sergio Miranda and Rodrigo Borda married in Montevideo last Thursday accompanied by 30 friends...

Same-sex marriage is good conservatism

by Jen | Aug 21, 2013 | News, Overseas commentary, World news

I want to start with a little history. I think it is necessary. On a cold Saturday morning in 1954, Peter Wildeblood stood in the dock at Lymington Magistrates Court in southern England charged with “conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious...