Telegraph.co.uk
| May 29, 2013
Vincent Autin and his partner, Bruno Boileau, have become the first gay couple to wed under France's new law legalizing same-sex marriage. The couple both said "je fais" (I do) in Montpellier after announcing at a press conference that they were p...
Russia Today
| Apr 23, 2013
Paris protesters clashed with riot police after the French parliament passed a historic, controversial law allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children. Applause erupted in the National Assembly when the bill passed 331 to 225, but pro...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 4, 2013
Moves to legalize same-sex marriage in France have drawn a furious response from Catholic hardliners and other groups. The law has passed the National Assembly and is now before the Senate, but opponents are demanding it be put to a referendum.
Associated Press
| Mar 24, 2013
Paris riot police used tear gas and battled protesters as hundreds of thousands surged onto the Champs-Elysees avenue in a massive demonstration against a proposed law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. The law could pass as ea...
ITN News
| Mar 6, 2013
Mickey and Minnie were on hand as two young women tied the knot in the first same-sex marriage ceremony ever to take place at Tokyo Disneyland. The marriage has no legal standing in Japan, but the happy couple say they hope the publicity will help...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 27, 2013
The boisterous French conservative faction has already been heard from, now tens of thousands of citoyens have marched through the streets of Paris in support of the French government's plan to legalize gay marriage. The rally was organized just t...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 14, 2013
Jodie Foster "came out" as a lesbian in a sometimes confusing, but touching, speech at the Golden Globes, thanking her former lover and co-parent Cydney Bernard, and explaining that she hadn't bared her private life earlier because privacy is so d...
Associated Press
| Dec 30, 2012
Some gay couples in Maine are having a very happy holiday season. Gay couples tied the knot early Saturday morning in Portland, Maine as the state's new gay marriage law went into effect at the stroke of midnight.
Channel 4 News
| Dec 10, 2012
The British government's plans for same-sex marriage are being published tomorrow. But today Culture Secretary Maria Miller was forced to the Commons to respond to MPs from the ruling Conservative party who say church weddings for gay couples will...
Russia Today
| Nov 18, 2012
Topless members of the controversial Ukranian group Femen taunted opponents of same-sex marriage at a rally in Paris, France. Conservative groups have taken to the streets to voice their shock and outrage after the French government drafted a law ...
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...What is relatively new to the military is more and more gay men and women are coming out. This is extremely difficult in any military occupation...
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...heard in their local voting booths. What resulted was a major victory for the gay rights and same-sex marriage movement. Maine, Maryland and Was...
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...is, God makes a big deal of the family structure and the sacred act of sex. These commandments, then, are pertinent to the discussion of sexual ...
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual activity between members of the same sex or gender. As an orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectionate, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same sex. "It also refers to an individual's sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a community of others who share them."
Homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation, along with bisexuality and heterosexuality, within the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. Scientific and medical understanding is that sexual orientation is not a choice, but rather a complex interplay of biological and environmental factors, especially with regard to early uterine environment. While there are those who still hold the view that homosexual activity is "unnatural" or "dysfunctional", research has shown that homosexuality is an example of a normal and natural variation in human sexuality and is not in and of itself a source of negative psychological effects. Prejudice and discrimination against homosexual and bisexual people have, however, been shown to cause significant psychological harm, and are especially damaging to children who are homosexual or bisexual.
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