With oral arguments set for Wednesday, Texas high court hears plenty from politicians, activists, others regarding same-sex marriage in Texas and other states.
Alabama high court dismissed petitions by groups who want the state's ban on gay marriage enforced. But the chief justice still expressed strong disagreement with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalizes same-sex marriage.
A manly couple from Australia got married last week after a legal diplomatic loophole. The couple got married at the British consulate and is legally married in Britain, but their union remains unrecognized by the Australian government. James Hanley and Dan Waknin said that they are looking into the option of adopting children.
A senior LP member has condemned the non-recognition of gay unions overseas after Australian authorities denied the marriage of two gay men in a death certificate.
A federal judge awarded a team of Kentucky attorneys more than $1 million for their role in the landmark United States Supreme Court case that struck down bans on same-sex marriage. The state will have to pick up the $1.1 million tab.
A Chinese court has accepted the legal action filed by a gay man in Hunan province against a civil affairs bureau for not recognizing his right to marry.
Newly elected Kentucky governor Matt Bevin made an executive order to issue marriage licenses without requiring the clerk’s names; this is a move to honor religious officials who are against same sex marriage.
Although gay marriage is already legal in the United States, it remains banned in the laws of most Native American tribes. Slovenia joins anti-same-sex marriage countries to defend traditional family values.
County clerks in Texas who object to gay marriage can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite last week's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to allow same-sex marriage, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Sunday.
While some Republican presidential candidates urged action to counter the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling legalizing gay marriage, grassroots activists at a conservative conference this weekend said they preferred to focus on limiting the damage.
The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration on Friday of a right to same-sex marriage resolved a momentous question, yet the ruling left many others unanswered and is likely to spark future legal battles over gay rights.
The Irish voted on Friday on whether to allow gay marriage, just two decades after Ireland became the last country in Western Europe to decriminalize homosexuality.
The governing board of Arkansas’s capital city on Tuesday adopted an ordinance forbidding discrimination against gays and transgender people in municipal hiring, setting the stage for a legal confrontation with the state government which has banned such regulations.
As a historic constitutional showdown over gay marriage looms this month at the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys are fighting over another bitterly disputed issue: their fees.
Indiana Republicans pledged on Monday to clarify a new "religious freedom" law, while similar proposals stalled in Georgia and North Carolina after businesses and activists said such measures could be used to discriminate against gays.
President Barack Obama took aim at his Republican opponents and his gaffe-prone vice president on Saturday in a satirical speech that included a roast of his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her recent problems with email.
Big business rallied behind the gay marriage cause on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments for April 28 on the contentious social issue that promises to yield one of the justices' most important rulings of 2015.
An Alabama appeals court ruled on Friday that the state must recognize the out-of-state adoption of three children by the estranged wife of their birth mother, lawyers for the plaintiff said.
