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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• MOVG TO LGBT VICTORIA, BRISH COLUMBIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• VICTORIA JACKSON ON GAY MARRIAGE: IT 'WOULD MAKE GOD MAD'
• 'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE

Melbourne uple Amy and Elise McDonald beme the first gay pair Victoria to legally wed unr new same-sex marriage laws for siar reasons, the Herald Sun surprise weddg at Carlton Garns me about bee the uple had a mment ceremony planned for this weekend. While there are fewer and fewer rights and obligatns attached to married upl which do not attach to facto upl—a stat currently enpassg same-sex upl most legal ntexts—supporters of gay rights argue this is not enough, and that the remag differenc are unacceptable.

MOVG TO LGBT VICTORIA, BRISH COLUMBIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Kev Rudd reversed his opposn to gay marriage May 2013, shortly before regag the Labor learship. In the electn mpaign, Abbott reaffirmed that he would not support legislatn to allow gay marriage. HistoryHomosexual activy Victoria?

Homosexual activy Victoria is legal.

VICTORIA JACKSON ON GAY MARRIAGE: IT 'WOULD MAKE GOD MAD'

Equal age of nsent Victoria is In Victoria the law about unr-age sex is the same for both men and women and for gay and heterosexual sex. This turned out to be a mistake - the marriage was childls and unhappy and Lorne was moured to be gay.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.