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LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today and tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two landmark marriage equality cases. One will decide the fate of the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act," and the other will rule on California's Proposition 8. In response, the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Chief of Staff Darrel Cummings issued the following statement: "No one knows how the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court will rule after hearing oral...
As more and more states pass laws for gay marriage rights, MarriageRecords.us.org experts see additional areas that may follow suit. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 12, 2013 According to MarriageRecords.us.org, ten or more states will be adopting same-sex marriage laws in 2013. States are also doing it faster than they did two decades ago. For example, each state now averages just eight weeks to approve gay marriage rights. MarriageRecords expects that California, Illinois, Rhode Island,...
The mortality rate for men in same-sex marriages has dropped markedly since the 1990s, according to a Danish study published online today (Tuesday) in the International Journal of Epidemiology. However, same-sex married women have emerged as the group of women with the highest, and in recent years, even further increasing mortality. Denmark implemented the world's first national law on registered same-sex partnerships in 1989. Mortality was markedly elevated among people in same-sex...
Expects numbers to eventually equal those of heterosexual couples. Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 02, 2013 Divorce.us.org officials said that the latest gay divorce marriage statistics do not surprise them, and indicate that gays and lesbians are beginning to achieve both marriage and divorce equality with their straight counterparts. “When we first started including gay divorce information in our database, people asked us if there would be enough data for it to be worth our while,” a...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As society begins its slow, tectonic shift towards mainstream acceptance of same-sex marriage, researchers are looking to see what kind of impacts the change will have on different levels of society. A new study from Rice University has found that same-sex couples who live together report lower levels of health than those in heterosexual marriages, when adjusting for socio-economic status. "Past research has shown that married...
New laws mandate new types of records for the court information website. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 14, 2013 CourtRecords.us.org has begun to upload same-sex marriage and divorce records into their public records database and more and more states legalize gay marriage, company officials said yesterday. “We've had to change our system around a bit to accommodate gay marriage and eventually gay divorce records,” said company spokesman Josh Fraser. “We held back for a while...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Apparel, the vertically integrated clothing manufacturer based in downtown Los Angeles, is launching an initiative to support gay marriage in France. At the request of its French employees who have been eagerly following the country's efforts to legalize gay marriage, American Apparel will be giving away 10,000 Legalize Gay shirts in its stores and on the streets of Paris. Despite support from French President Francois Hollande,...
University of Cincinnati research is examining the effectiveness of a relationship education program that was created to specifically address the needs of male same-sex couples. Details on the program and the study, led by Sarah Whitton, a UC assistant professor of psychology, will be presented Nov. 17, at the 46th annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) in National Harbor, Md. Whitton explains that same-sex couples and heterosexual couples...
Landslide Victory for GLBT-Friendly Candidates and Initiatives Nationwide, Underscoring the Importance of Equality for Americans LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grindr for Equality created awareness about equality issues nationwide by delivering in-app messages directly to its users in an effort to generate noticeable change during the 2012 elections. In a historic election for equality, Grindr users and voters across the United States made their voices heard by...
