same-sex marriage

A year after its Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, the British territory enacted a new law that replaces such marriages with domestic partnerships.

North Carolina is paying a $300,000 legal settlement to a former magistrate who resigned under duress because she said her religious beliefs prevented her from marrying gay couples.

The children were born to two married, same-sex couples with a U.S. citizen parent and foreign parent. The children were denied citizenship because they're genetically tied to only the foreign parent.

The vote in Australia's House of Representatives follows passage in the Senate last week. The measure means that same-sex marriages in Australia could take place as soon as January.

"There's no point pretending that this isn't deeply personal," Australian Member of Parliament Tim Wilson said during debate on same-sex marriage. He ended his speech by proposing to his partner.

The Kentucky clerk was jailed in 2015 for refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Now, together with the legal group that defended her then, she has crossed the Atlantic to carry on her fight.

"You'd think cake would be apolitical, and yet here we are," says one of several D.C.-area pastry chefs who wrought their support for gay marriage into elaborate wedding cakes.

Windsor challenged the law barring federal benefits for same-sex marriages — and she won. In the process, the octogenarian dynamo became an icon of the LGBTQ rights movement.

Same-sex marriage will be legal in Australia by Christmas, the country's attorney general says. But the big question is, how will that happen?

The legislation was backed by 393 lawmakers, while 226 voted against and four abstained. Same-sex couples in Germany were previously permitted to form civil unions but they were not allowed to marry.