Old ctom, new upl: Gay Indians are havg arranged marriag | The World om PRX

Contents:

• OLD CTOM, NEW UPL: GAY INDIANS ARE HAVG ARRANGED MARRIAG
• THE COMPLETE GUI TO GAY MARRIAGE
• LOOK FOR A TERNATNAL SPOE. GETTG A GAY FOREIGN HBAND!
• FDG LOVE ABROAD: THE MAIL ORR GAY HBAND OPTN
• MY MAIL ORR HBAND: GAY WTERN ROMANCE KDLE EDN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

OLD CTOM, NEW UPL: GAY INDIANS ARE HAVG ARRANGED MARRIAG

“Matrimonial” ads — personal ads seekg bris and grooms — have been mon Indian newspapers for s, and the Inter age apps and webs have proliferated around the, an Indian-Amerin is brgg the nvenient matchmakg tools to gay men and women around the world — even if India won’t regnize their marriag yet.

He says the language his mother’s ad “was a joke on those steist ads, was to say that gay people have the same kd of preferenc and [flaws]” that straight people men and women urban India n often live whout persecutn if their fai are supportive, but may still face a lack of acknowledgement om iends and fay. Nuptials n be nfg enough gog by the book, so we knew nontradnal upl uld e a newer gui to go by – we provid answers to a few mon qutns we’ve received regardg gay marriage celebratns and LGBTQ+ weddgs we thk will help! We remend ctomizg your gay marriage vows and ceremony readgs even if you aren’t the one liverg them – which clus askg your weddg officiant to alter any tradnal texts to be LGBTQ+ iendly, genr-ntral, or clu relig-leang aspects.

THE COMPLETE GUI TO GAY MARRIAGE

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.

LOOK FOR A TERNATNAL SPOE. GETTG A GAY FOREIGN HBAND!

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.

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.

FDG LOVE ABROAD: THE MAIL ORR GAY HBAND OPTN

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. Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire.

Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007. For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal. Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

MY MAIL ORR HBAND: GAY WTERN ROMANCE KDLE EDN

Be Bmmell Introductns is an ternatnal male gay match-makg agency based Atralia and operatg Hong Kong, Sgapore, New Zealand, USA (New York), London and Internatnal for gay men lookg for a long-term, monogamo relatnship. What we would ll the "gay rights movement" or the "LGBT muny, " that's a very big aln, and there are a whole lot of different nstuenci: gay men and lbians who are vted marriage, [as well as] bisexual and transgenr people who often uld marry the people that they love, regardls of what state law was about marriage.

You go back to the 1990s when this bate emerged, and there were people whose top prry was segregatg ary and ernment service so openly gay people uld serve, or who wanted jt basic nondiscrimatn protectns, [like] wrg sexual orientatn to hate crim laws.

And one of the sort of remarkable parts of the story is not jt how ultimately gay marriage mpaigners triumphed over opponents of same-sex marriage, but how wh their own LGBT muny and polil movement, they raised the issue of marriage so that went higher and higher on the list of prri. And be a lot easier to be open, I thk, to the arguments for same-sex marriage and more ristant to the arguments that were ma agast when you know somebody your life who is gay or lbian and see the fundamental humany of them, and a certa way, the fundamental mosty of the mand for them to share their life wh somebody they love. Reporters wrote about what Fortunato and Schwandt lled a holy unn, which was ntroversial not bee there was talk of legalizg gay marriage but bee the two men publicly ask for -- and were nied -- the blsg of the Epispal Church.

GAY MARRIAGE

"The New York State Court of Appeals clar that a lbian or gay uple livg together for a least ten years n be nsired a fay for purpos of rent ntrol protectn, the first time a state's hight urt l that a gay uple n be lled a fay... The California Bar Associatn urg that lbian and gay marriage be legally regnized and Seattle, San Francis and other ci, 'partners' regulatns extendg certa protectns and rights to unmarried upl, straight and gay, are adopted.

GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE

"Jt as Hawaii's high urt seemed poised to allow same-sex marriag, gay activists have seen their visns of legal weddgs on the beach of Mi disappear as voters approved Constutnal Amendment 2, givg the legislature power to 'rerve marriage to oppose-sex upl. "Rabbis belongg to the biggt and most liberal branch of Judaism the Uned Stat have voted to regnise the partnerships of gay and lbian Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanctn relig ceremoni for same-sex Print of the Conference, Rabbi Charl Kroloff, said that gay and lbian people served the regnn and rpect due to people created the image of God.

The upl are barred om adoptg children overseas bee of potential objectns om untri that do not accept gay the new legislatn, all referenc to genr laws erng matrimony and adoptn will be leted favor of the ntral-genr term, partner. "Before the lg [Supreme Court lg that laws makg gay sex a crime were unnstutnal], supporters the Hoe [US Hoe of Reprentativ] of a nstutnal amendment that would more formally rtrict marriage to the unn of a man and a woman were havg trouble attractg sponsors. "A unty clerk issued marriage licens Friday to at least 15 gay upl, some of whom then exchanged vows outsi the urthoe, as more same-sex upl led up for a chance to tie the Mexi law f marriage as a ntract between ntractg parti but do not mentn genr.