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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
A heterosexual couple who had their application for a civil partnership refused earlier this week plan to commence legal action in the courts, together with seven other couples who have been similarly refused.
This joint legal action is scheduled to be launched in the Great Hall at King’s College, London at 10am on 21 December.
Commenting on the refusal, Tim Garrett – one half of yesterday’s rejected couple – said:
“We are disappointed but not surprised by the refusal to grant us a civil partnership. The register office staff were very courteous and helpful. But the legislation they currently have to abide by is outdated and discriminatory.”
Full Story from the Pink Paper
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
A straight couple from London will challenge the legal ban on heterosexual civil partnerships by filing an application this Wednesday.
The denial of civil partnerships to straight couples is, they say, “unjust, discriminatory and illegal under the Human Rights Act”.
Stephanie Munro and Andrew O’Neill, from Camden, north London, expect to be turned down by the registrar but plan to get the rejection in writing. They will then appeal against the refusal in the courts, together with seven other rejected couples from across the country. All eight couples will file a joint legal appeal.
Full Story from The Pink Paper
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
On the fifth anniversary of the legalisation of same-sex weddings, gay and lesbian civil partnerships are in much the same unhappy place as straight marriages: divorces are up and nuptials are down – drastically.
Initially, thousands of gay and lesbian couples exercised their rights under the Civil Partnership Act, which came into force in December 2005. But the numbers choosing to “marry” and legalise their relationships have fallen from a high of 18,000 in 2005 and 2006 to 6281 in 2009. Meanwhile, just 42 partnerships were dissolved in 2007 while 351 were ended in 2009.
However, gay rights charity Stonewall Scotland said the increase in “divorce” rates – a civil partnership is “dissolved” in the eyes of the law – is lower than expected. Gary Nunn, a spokesman for Stonewall Scotland, said: “We expected this change to happen. There was a rush at first of couples wanting to marry. There was especially a demand from couples who had been together for 20, 30, 40 years. More couples entered into civil partnerships than we had predicted and more than the government had predicted.”
Full Story from the Herald Scotland
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
TWO gay men have become the second couple to challenge the UK’s legal ban on same-sex marriage at Greenwich register office. David Watters, 40, and Richard Hull, 49, from Plumstead, applied for a civil marriage licence this morning at the Woolwich office but were refused.
Along with other couples, the men plan to take legal action in the courts as part of the Equal Love campaign which seeks to overturn prohibitions on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships.
The campaign is being coordinated by gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Mr Watters, who has been in a relationship with Mr Hull for six years, claim that civil partnerships, which are legal in this country, are not seen by society as on a par with marriage.
Full Story from the News Shopper
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
A lesbian couple in Hampshire will attempt to register a marriage tomorrow. Colette French and Katie Green, both 21, say that civil partnerships were created to deny gay couples equality. They will go to Petersfield Register Office in Hampshire tomorrow but expected to be turned away.
They are the fifth of eight straight and gay couples to attempt to register for ceremonies they are not entitled to.
The applications are part of the Equal Love campaign, which is challenging the ban on gay marriage and straight civil partnerships.
Full Story from Pink News
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
London’s free daily newspaper Metro gave its readers a chance to win the cover one day this week – so a gay fan of the paper used the unique opportunity to make a romantic proposal. “To my darling Ben Daniel Collins – Will you marry me? Lots of Love, Jon Mark Ireland,” read the especially-designed Metro front page.
Ireland, 27, has been with partner Collins for five years, and was keen for his proposal to make a splash – but he worried his beloved wouldn’t see the paper, as available copies disappear quickly each day.
“On the train, this guy was reading it in front of me,” Collins tells Metro. “Then I saw my name and I thought ‘what?’ I sort of blinked twice, then I’m looking around for a Metro – I gave up my seat to try to find one.”
Full Story from Same Same
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
A gay couple in Northampton will attempt to marry tomorrow as part of a campaign to open up marriage and civil partnerships to both straight and gay couples.
Matthew Toresen and Scott Maloney will almost certainly be turned away from Northampton Register Office and plan to take legal action over the refusal.
They are the third couple in the Equal Love campaign to apply for a ceremony they are not entitled to. Earlier this month, Rev Sharon Ferguson and her partner Franka Streitzel were denied permission to marry in Greenwich, while Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle were refused a civil partnership in Islington.
Full Story from Pink News
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
(Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):
–UK, England, Brighton: 11/14, Gay Wedding Show, Corn Xchg, 12-4:30 PM.
–USA, CA, Palm Springs: 11/13, Equality Happy Hour, Hamburger Mary’s, 4-7 PM.
–USA, IL, Chicago: 11/13, Transgender Community Social, The Glenwood, 4-7 PM.
–USA, MA, Boston: 11/13, Phone Bank for Marriage Equality in RI, Mass Equality offices, 12-5 PM.
–USA, ME, Ogunquit: 11/14, Gay Friendly Celebrations by the Sea Wedding Expo, Dunaway Center, 11 AM-3 PM.
–USA, NV, Las Vegas: 11/14, Same Love Same Rights Wedding Expo, W Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Sp, 12:30-3:30 PM.
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
A LESBIAN minister and her partner are to apply for a civil marriage, and say that they will take legal action if it is rejected. Their action is part of a campaign to allow same-sex couples to be married, and heterosexual couples to enter into civil partner ships.
The Revd Sharon Ferguson, the chief executive of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM), and pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of North London, and her partner, Franka Strietzel, will make an application on 2 November to be married at the register office at Greenwich.
By 14 December, a total of eight couples — four same-sex, four hetero sexual — will file applications for civil marriages and civil partnerships at their local register office. Under the Civil Partnerships Act 2004, only same-sex couples may enter into a civil partnership. The action is being co-ordinated by the “Equal Love” campaign run by Peter Tatchell, the human-rights activist.
Full Story from The Church Times
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Nitzan Horowitz, the first openly gay politician to be elected to the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), is a man on a mission. Representing the left of centre, pro-peace New Movement-Meretz party, he has called for Israel to introduce secular marriages for gay and straight couples as well as campaigning for help for LGBT people from neighboring Arab countries who risk death if returned home.
Speaking last week at a London meeting of young members of the Zionist Federation as well as a separate audience of LGBT Jews, Mr Horowitz spoke of his experiences as a gay politician and how they have informed his campaigning for human and gay rights across the middle east.
“If you solve the issues about separating religion from the state you can solve a lot of the issues relating to LGBT rights,” he told both groups.
Full Story from Pink News
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