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Contents:

• THIS NRI GAY UPLE OM AMERI HAD THE MOST STYLISH WEDDG EVER
• TV CHEF GUY FIERI OFFICIAT AT 101 GAY WEDDGS FLORIDA
• WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
• GAY WEDDG ETIQUETTE – 5 WAYS TO APPROACH TRADN ON YOUR BIG DAY
• GAY MARRIAGE
• IN ‘MY BT FRIEND’S WEDDG,’ I FOUND MY GAY ROLE MOL: JULIA ROBERTS
• MY BIG GAY HOLLYWOOD WEDDG: HOW INDTRY POWER COUPL TAKE THE PLUNGE
• FOOD NETWORK’S GUY FIERI OFFICIAT 101 GAY WEDDGS MIAMI

THIS NRI GAY UPLE OM AMERI HAD THE MOST STYLISH WEDDG EVER

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TV CHEF GUY FIERI OFFICIAT AT 101 GAY WEDDGS FLORIDA

There are also some scen that are TOO forced – eg the dance the gay bar is funny but is too long and feels like a good ia wh average film bravely los somethg like half the st and mak the film better that regard. He went to Twter g the hashtag #101gayweddgs and ved the first 101 upl to take part the ee weddg.

Smh explas the ‘101 Gay Weddgs’ event was spired by the movie 101 Dalmatians and is a dig at Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has fought agast liftg the ban on same-sex marriage. (The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said. Near the end of the episo, Roc says he's not yet fortable wh his uncle beg gay, but he's learng to be "fortable wh beg unfortable, " which is a big step for him.

"Can't Help" is chock full of the sorts of easy gay jok that typified a lot of '90s edi featurg gay characters.

WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E

At one pot, Andrew sists that he didn't thk black people uld be gay, bee they weren't scend om "sissy" Europeans. When Andrew tells him this is jt a phase, spurred by havg married an "ugly woman, " Rsell says that, no, he's been gay his whole life and jt lyg to himself.

What ma the battle for gay rights so different was that anybody uld be gay, so, siarly, anybody uld be prejudiced. The characters don't make all of the way to full acceptance of gay rights by the end of the episo.

GAY WEDDG ETIQUETTE – 5 WAYS TO APPROACH TRADN ON YOUR BIG DAY

" Roc posns the fight for gay rights as on a ntuum wh all other civil rights battl, and that was somethg few other elements of pop culture were alg wh at the time. Beg homophobic is simple when you don't know any gay people.

It's far more plited when your own brother or uncle is gay. So how do gay weddgs work?

However, jt se you are unsure of how to approach a specific tradn, we’ve created this gay weddg etiquette gui for your reference.

GAY MARRIAGE

Who should be payg for our gay weddg?

All weddgs, gay or straight, eventually need to addrs the same dread qutn — – who’s gog to pay for all of this? In 2014, 86 percent of surveyed gay and lbian partners reported that they paid for their own nuptials, pared to 40 percent of heterosexual upl.

Gay weddg vatn etiquette n be particularly lite. Dpe all of the progrs that gay rights advot have ma over the years, is still mon for a queer bri or groom to have fay members who don’t support their unn. LGBT rights activists and gay marriage etiquette experts tend to err on the si of clivy.

IN ‘MY BT FRIEND’S WEDDG,’ I FOUND MY GAY ROLE MOL: JULIA ROBERTS

Many opns on gay marriage change through this kd of personal experience. Although fah n be a betiful addn to your gay weddg ceremony, fdg the bt way to rporate n be nfg. 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.

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.

MY BIG GAY HOLLYWOOD WEDDG: HOW INDTRY POWER COUPL TAKE THE PLUNGE

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. The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U. Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry.

2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage. 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.

FOOD NETWORK’S GUY FIERI OFFICIAT 101 GAY WEDDGS MIAMI

Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event.

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. However, there has been some cricism of the fact that while the film had a same-sex uple at s heart, the show do not appear to have any such uple (or even any ma characters who are homosexual), somethg that might seem a b backwards nsirg the 25-year span between when the film was released and when the televisn seri premier.

"One way we sort of played wh some of the dynamics the movie was the relatnship at the heart of the movie is the gay relatnship, and leads to that betiful logy at the funeral, " Wigfield explaed. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett plays Asley's assistant, and kd of seems like this rom- trope you've seen a ln tim before — this, like, gay guy assistant who exists jt for jok and to ask about your lead girl's love life. " The plot, if there is one, volv Jim's termatn to learn to dance before his weddg, Stifler's hopels fatuatn wh Michelle's virtuo sister Cance (January Jon), the efforts of Jim and his weddg party to keep the troublemaker Stifler om the weddg, and a uple of walks on the wild si--one when Stifler ends up a dance ntt a gay bar, and another when a bachelor party is terpted by Michelle's William Stt has polished Stifler to a character who is on the edge of beg a verb, as "he stiflered the whole crowd.