"marriage" Articles & Blogs:
Vermont's Gay Marriage Decision Reignites Right
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After Vermont lawmakers pass gay marriage, opponents vow to fight onGay Marriage | Today 9:10 am
Gay rights advocates celebrated across the nation yesterday, when the Vermont legislature overrode the Governor’s veto and legalized same-sex marriage...[Read on] |
Divorce lower in states that don't ban same sex marriage
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Well, lookie here. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has some pretty telling info on marriage in this country:
Over the past decade or so, divorce has gradually become more uncommon in the United States. Since 2003, however, the decline in divorce rates ha...[Read on] |
California marriage equality groups risk rights for petty rivalry
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A rivalry between California's two largest marriage equality organizations to publicly define the timeline of repealing Proposition 8 has become a bitter spat that threatens to cripple the effort.
On August 12, Equality California (EQCA) announced their ...[Read on] |
Barbara Bush Stars in Marriage Equality Video, Really Steals Meghan McCain’s Thing
| A new video in support of gay marriage stars Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. Bush. “I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,” the Manhattan resident and Yale graduate says. “New York is about fairness and equality. And eve...[Read on] |
CA Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8
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California’s Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold gay-marriage banPost | Today 1:30 pm
The California Supreme Court has ruled that Proposition 8, an amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages, will remain intact. Opponents called on the court to review...[Read on] |
Gender Stereotypes No Longer Belong In Marriage
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Wednesday, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a federal district court judge in California struck down Proposition 8, a voter enacted amendment to the California Constitution which declared that marriage cou...[Read on] |
Al Gore’s Daughter Karenna to Separate, Too
| Karenna Gore and her husband, Drew Schiff, have separated after 12 years of marriage, People reports. They have three kids. Drew, a doctor (Dr. Drew!), is an employee of the biotech firm Aisling Capital, while Karenna is currently working on “a document...[Read on] |
Proposition 86ed: California Overturns Ban on Gay Marriage
| Photo by AJ Alfieri-Crispin/Flickr.Just a few minutes ago, U.S. District Court judge Vaughn Walker ruled that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, thereby repealing the state’s ban on gay marriage. Proposition 8 was approved by slightly mor...[Read on] |
Gubernatorial hopeful Susan Gaertner, a straight shooter, wants to save Minnesota
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Minnesota’s gubernatorial hopeful Susan Gaertner doesn’t mince words when talking about pot, damnation and gay marriageQ & A | Today 8:20 am
Editor’s Note: Currently the district attorney of Minnesota’s Ramsey County, Susan Gaertner is looki...[Read on] |
Elton John sings at Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding
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Apparently even staunch conservatives love a little gay flavor at their weddings.
Singer Sir Elton John reportedly played at Rush Limbaugh's fourth wedding this weekend, to the tune of one million dollars as his fee.
A bit ironic, one might think, c...[Read on] |
Social networking is getting socailly conscious!
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According to a new game on Facebook, American 2049, social networking can be socially conscious! The new game is centered on such topics as forced sex work and prostitution, racial profiling, segregation, abortion issues, LGBTQ injustic...[Read on] |
If Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson Can’t Stay Married, Who Can?
| Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson are divorcing? This should send a jolt of dread through the community of musicians, journalists, publicists, managers; any of us who’ve pledged some of our souls to rock ‘n’ roll and worried about it ever since. For ar...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: A Little Bit Married
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In this research-packed, story-rich, sociological-self-help hybrid, journalist Hannah Seligson coins a long overdue term for something so many of us have experienced: "a little bit married." You know...you move in, meet parents and siblings, invest in tel...[Read on] |
A Very Different Engagement: The Cult of Diana’s Virginity
| Diana the schoolteacher in 1980, unaware of the sunlight filtering through her skirt. From Rex USA.
The Associated Press comforted the world last week when it announced, “UK royal bride’s virginity no longer an issue.” This was hardly the case 30 ye...[Read on] |
Gender 'Balance' on the Horizon?
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New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly has feminism and the GOP on her mindLiza Donnelly | Today 12:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Liza Donnelly, noted cartoonist for The New Yorker, is
also the editor, with her husband, Michael Maslin, of the book Ca...[Read on] |
We Need More Chelsea Optimism
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The divorce rate is down – and so is consumer confidenceLiz Peek | Today 10:00 am
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Chelsea Clinton is getting married; you may have heard. She is, of course, not alone. We are in high wedding season; more than two million one-somes will become ...[Read on] |
Do you or did you ever earn more money than your spouse/significant other? Did it make a difference in your relationship?
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Joan Juliet Buck, Judith Martin and the wOw women talk about money and relationshipsQuestion of the Day | Today 12:00 amLiz Smith | Today 12:00 amLiz Smith Was Always the Breadwinner I always earned more money than my spouses and they were both glad of it...[Read on] |
It's Fashion Week in New York
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New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly knows the real question behind Fashion WeekLiza Donnelly | Today 11:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Liza Donnelly, noted cartoonist for The New Yorker, is
also the editor, with her husband, Michael Maslin, of the ...[Read on] |
Waity Katie No More: Kate Middleton and Prince William to Wed in 2011
| After a rather lengthy courtship that began when the two were students at St. Andrews college, Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged to be married. According to a statement by William’s father, Prince Charles, the marriage will take place next s...[Read on] |
A Practicing Omni-Sexual Weighs In on Miss California, Gay Rights and Perez Hilton
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Mr. wOw vents about the brouhaha at the beauty pageantMr. Wow Blasts Perez Hilton | 05/01/2009 4:15 pm
Editor’s Note: Mr. Wow writes upon occasion for wOw. He is the ultimate Hollywood insider who live-blogged Oscar night for us. Today he dro...[Read on] |
Designing Women's Dixie Carter Dies at 70
| Actress Dixie Carter - best known for her role as Southerner Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women - passed away Saturday morning. She was 70.
Her cause of death was not disclosed.
"This has been a terrible blow to our family," her rep Steve Rohrsaid said...[Read on] |
Does Prop 8 Decision Prove 'California Supreme Court Lost Its Way'?
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Brenda Feigen can’t understand why the California Supreme Court doesn’t support same-sex marriageA Friend Stopped By | Today 1:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Brenda Feigen is counsel to Kenoff & Machtinger,
LLP, where she practices anti-...[Read on] |
Meghan McCain: Republican Party Has to Become More Gay Friendly
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Young blogger seemingly has no qualms about taking her party to task on
traditionally taboo topics; new gay Republican group launches this weekMeghan McCain on Gay Republicans | Today 1:25 pm
Meghan McCain makes no apologies for being a Republican and p...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Cynthia Nixon
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Nixon is speaking out about the anti-choice restrictions in the health care bill.
“It’s a very basic female right that we need to protect,” Nixon said. “What’s so frightening about this Stupak ban is that he’s found a backdoor way to basica...[Read on] |
Chloe
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When you strip it down, Chloe is really about women and aging and the different value placed on men and women as they age. The film written by Erin Cressida Wilson based on the French film Natalie and directed by Atom Egoyan, tells the story of Catherin...[Read on] |
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