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MN: Lesbian Couple Sues State for Marriage

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Baby Sean is only six months old, but he already knows there are two women in his life who adore him. Now, those women are asking the State of Minnesota to recognize their relationship, and their family.

“We’re not trying to be treated differently or better than anyone else,” said Lindzi Campbell. “We just want protection for our families. Stability.”

Campbell and her partner Jesse Dykhuis are one of three gay couples who filed the suit Tuesday in Hennepin County alleging, among other things, the State violated their right to marry. It’s a lawsuit two years in the making. “Two years of fundraising, relentlessly asking people for help,” said Dykhuis.

Full Story from WDIO

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Annette Bening & Julianne Moore Play a Lesbian Couple in New Film

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Julianne Moore and Annette Bening make for one cute couple. On screen that is. The savvy and sassy redheads team up as lesbians for The Kids Are All Right, a film by indie director Lisa Cholodenko that is making its world debut at Berlin, AFP reports. In the movie, Moore and Bening, a happy pair for two decades, see their relationship start to unravel when the sperm donor father of their teenagers enters the picture.

Moore said:’For me the movie is very much a portrait of a marriage and a family and about what it’s like to be married for a long time and have children. I don’t think it matters what your sexuality is. I think all families are the same that way.’

Bening plays a successful obstetrician, while Moore is sees her career drifting and makes friends with a ladies man played by Mark Ruffalo. Ruffalo appeared in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, while Mia Wasikowska also makes an appearance.

Full Story from Monsters & Critics
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Russia: Judge Dismisses Lesbian Couple's Canadian Marriage

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Two Russian lesbians on Thursday lost their bid to have their marriage in Canada recognized by a Moscow court, after a judge dismissed their argument that Russian law recognizes foreign marriages. Public relations worker Irina Fyet, 30, and beauty parlor owner Irina Shepitko, 32, married in Toronto in October after an application for a marriage license in Moscow was rejected on the grounds that such a union must be between a man and a woman.

The couple are the first gay pair to attempt to get a marriage license in Russia.

“I will have to uphold the decision made by the registry office in May. Foreign marriages accepted in Russia must involve a couple of opposite sex,” judge Boris Gerbekov ruled.

Full Story from Reuters

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Russian Lesbian Couple to Marry in Toronto Today

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Two lesbians denied the right to marry in their native Russia were set to circumvent national laws Friday by getting married in Toronto.

Irina Shipitko, 32, and Irina Fedotova-Fet, 30, told the Toronto Star through an interpreter two requests for a marriage license in Moscow were denied in May.

Russia’s Family Code only allows for male-female marriages, so the pair decided to have a city hall wedding in Toronto and then use other Russian laws to validate their union, the report said.

Full Story from UPI: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/10/23/Russian-lesbians-travel-to-Toronto-to-wed/UPI-38211256309256/

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Russian Court Denies Lesbian Couple Marriage

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

A Russian lesbian couple have been barred from marrying by a court.

The Tverskoi District Court ruled that Irina Fedotova-Fet and Irina Shipitko cannot marry as Russia law states marriage is between a man and a woman.

The district court was upholding an earlier ruling by the city’s civil registry. The couple had tried to marry in May but had been turned away.

Full Story from Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/10/06/russian-court-denies-lesbians-the-right-to-marry/

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Lesbian Couple in Indiana Denied Divorce

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Trapped in a bad marriage?  Sorry, really. But you’ve got nothing on Larissa Chism and Tara Ranzy, a divorce-seeking Indiana couple doomed to live unhappily ever after and after and after by a legal Catch-22.

Chism, a psychiatrist, and Ranzy, an educator, wed in Toronto in January 2005. In March of this year, they filed a divorce petition.

In many respects, their case was rubber-stamp simple. They had no children; they had already divided their property; neither was pregnant. Unfortunately, an eagle-eyed court employee noticed the one complicating fact in their one-page joint submission: Larissa and Tara are both women’s names. Indiana does not grant or recognize same-sex marriages.

Full Story from The Star: http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/699523

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Tennessee Appeals Court Rejects "Paramour" Clause for Lesbian Couple's Custody Agreement

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

A judge who refused to allow a gay woman and her partner to take custody of the woman’s daughter has to reconsider, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled.

Angel Chandler and Joseph Barker had agreed that Chandler and her partner would take custody of their daughter, 14, while Barker and his new wife took custody of their 16-year-old son. But a Gibson County judge rejected the plan they agreed upon, saying that state law required every parenting plan to have a “paramour provision”: that the parent won’t have someone stay the night if they aren’t married.

Since Tennessee law doesn’t allow for gay marriage, Chandler and her partner of 10 years were in violation of that provision, the judge ruled. Chancellor George Ellis of the 28th Judicial District in West Tennessee imposed the restriction in May even though Chandler’s ex-husband had not asked for it.

Full Story from The Tennessean.com: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090922/NEWS01/909220331/Custody+ruling+on+gay+parenting+reversed

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