Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love is the trashy, marriage-filg realy show gays have been wag for.

Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE GAY LOVE SONGS PLAYLIST FOR YOUR LGBTQ WEDDG
• FALLY, GAYS HAVE THEIR OWN TRASHY, MARRIAGE-DEFILG REALY SHOW
• STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

THE ULTIMATE GAY LOVE SONGS PLAYLIST FOR YOUR LGBTQ WEDDG

As you’re preparg a playlist for your LGBTQ weddg, you’ll fely want to steal some of the gay love songs for your ceremony procsnal, first dance or jt to sert a slow jam or three to your weddg receptn. Wrten as a love note to the LGBTQ muny before marriage equaly, this is one of the most perfect gay weddg songs to take a twirl around the dance floor.

FALLY, GAYS HAVE THEIR OWN TRASHY, MARRIAGE-DEFILG REALY SHOW

Long before “love is love” beme the rallyg cry of Ameri’s gay marriage movement, Boy Gee knew what was up and sang about the universaly of love and lovers this 1984 classic. The gay and straight weddgs were officiated by Queen Latifah while the h song about equaly was performed by the rap duo wh Madonna htg the stage wh them, along wh Mary Lambert and jazz artist Trombone Shorty.

STARS ALIGN FOR A GAY MARRIAGE ANTHEM

“When such a crilly acclaimed and popular rap artist puts marriage equaly center stage at one of the biggt events of the year, is the latt a long le of signs that our natn not only accepts, but celebrat the love and mment of gay upl today, ” said Ellis (who is married to Kristen Henrson of the band Antigone Risg). After beg putized by Los Angel County, Latifah officiated the mass nuptials, which clud “gay, straight, old, young, of many rac and many lors, ” acrdg to the New York Tim.

Last week, the same day the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8 were overturned by the Supreme Court, not only was there a victory for gay upl all across Ameri, there was also another victory for gay marriage... Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the hip-hop duo that sred a surprise number one h this past Sprg wh "Thrift Shop, " saw their song about gay marriage, "Same Love, " (featurg sger Mary Lambert), jump to the Top 40 at number 28, up om spot 65 the week before.

Acrdg to "The New York Tim, " not only is "Same Love" number 28 the Top 40, but on the Billboard Rap chart 's at number five, a surprisg feat for a song explicy about gay marriage. When Mary Lambert spoke wh "The Seattle Tim" back May she talked about beg gay and growg up a very relig hoehold, even apologizg to God for her same-sex attractns: “I fought for a long time, then I fell love wh another girl and then I cid I would repent every day, bee I knew I wasn’t gog to change.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

” Whether "Same Love" hs number one as a rult of the Supreme Court lgs and the general feelgs towards gay marriage the Uned Stat remas to be seen, but if s leaps up the charts is any ditn, "Same Love" may be a gay marriage weddg prent om the unlikelit of plac: the hip hop You GoHip Hop And HomosexualyPopular the CommunyYou May Like. A few members are practiced therapy-speak, leadg them to soberly analyze fellow participants’ behavr terms of trmas and triggers—a taste of te gay life wh the make-believe settg of the show.

This predictable oute ntraliz what I image would be, om a productn and marketg perspective, the primary sellg pot of a gay romance realy show: the possibily that a participant uld end up wh any of the others. But gay marriage is still so young—I uldn’t shake the feelg that the participants were hung up on the same one-size-fs-all relatnship stcture that has disappoted straight people for generatns, when they uld be tryg somethg new. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". The fai and iends of lbian and gay upl who are nied marriage rights may also experience negative physil and mental health nsequenc siar to those experienced by their loved on. The vast majory of scientific studi that have directly pared lbian and gay parents wh heterosexual parents have nsistently shown that the same-sex upl are as f and pable parents as heterosexual upl, and that their children are jt as psychologilly healthy and well adjted.

”That is no small feat for a rap duo om Seattle whout a major-label ntract, but their sgle “Same Love” has the potential to be groundbreakg a different way: is the first song to explicly embrace and promote gay marriage that has ma to the Top 40, gay-rights advot and rad executiv said.

“The fact that a song solely dited to the msage of marriage equaly is climbg the charts and quickly beg a popular song across the untry is a big al, ” said Charlie Jough, a spokman for the Human Rights Campaign, the largt gay rights anizatn. Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” was a chart-toppg song 2011 that generally affirmed acceptance of homosexualy, and artists like Katy Perry, Fun and Kacey Mgrav have ma support for gay rights part of their public farther back, Melissa Etheridge, who is openly gay, sred Top 10 hs the 1990s wh songs about her lbian relatnships, “Come to My Wdow” and “I’m the Only One. “This is a song that has the most unequivol pro-equaly msage to ever be exprsed a major sgle, and ’s really reached a wi range of dienc, ” said Rich Ferraro, a spokman for GLAAD, a gay-right anizatn that tracks the song, Macklemore tak other rappers to task for g gay slurs, ti abive language to bullyg of gay teenagers and mocks relig lears for opposg gay marriage.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

He said he thought the ephets routely heard rap mic might be partly to blame, and that nyg gay adults the right to marry might also ntribute to spair among gay teenagers. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. | Getty ImagThe four ndidat for bishop of an Epispal Church dce that recently garnered headl for refg to bls same-sex marriag have dited that they will allow the Epispal Dce of Albany has been whout a bishop sce the rignatn 2021 of William Love, who had issued an open letter 2020 refg to enforce a nomatnal le requirg all dc to allow for the blsg of gay marriag. ”Ward wrote that he believ the issue of gay marriage is “tly plited” and that he rpects all sis on the issue, addg that if elected bishop, “honorg theologil diversy would be a prry.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

”“Seekg rolutn and a mutual path forward would volve a basic mment to rpectg the digny of every person, affordg genero pastoral attentn to every voice, and seekg Holy mon ground on nonilly sound footg, ” Ward July 2018, the Epispal Church General Conventn passed Rolutn B012, which required all dc to bls same-sex unns, removg earlier provisns that allowed several dc to prohib such measur, due to them beg nflict wh the biblil standard of B012 allowed clergy to refe to perform gay weddgs, required bishops who oppose them to let another bishop provi pastoral support for the same-sex uple and to provi a prit to perform the November 2018, Albany Bishop Love released an open letter statg that he refed to enforce the rolutn his dce. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L. The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods.