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USA: NOM’s Gallagher Says Whether She Is Married or Not is Irrelevant

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Maggie GallagherYesterday Republican presidential candidate and NOM investigator Fred Karger sent out an email speculating that ‘marriage defender’ Maggie Gallagher may not actually be married because she never wears a wedding ring in public or appears with her husband Roman Srivastav.

Gallagher spoke to Buzzfeed about Karger’s accusations:

Gallagher laughed when asked about Karger’s speculation, and said “I think I would know better than Fred.”

Gallagher, who was a single mother for years after college, says she married her husband Raman Srivastav in Arizona in 1993: “We are still married and living together. He’s a very private person.”

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CA, USA: Federal Judge Orders Court to Repay Married Gay Employee for Extra Insurance Costs

Friday, April 6th, 2012

San Francisco District Court RulingA federal judge in San Francisco has ordered that a gay court employee be repaid after administrators refused to allow his husband to join his his health insurance plan. In a ruling issued this week, U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Ware said, “The denial of this compensation to [complainant Christopher Nathan] because he is in a same-sex marriage clearly constitutes discrimination, both on the basis of sex and sexual orientation.”

Nathan, 38, a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, filed a complaint after court administrators, citing the federal Defense of Marriage Act, denied his request to enroll his husband in his coverage.

Nathan, a member of the nonprofit Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who goes by the name Sister Risque, and Thomas Alexander, 39, married in San Francisco in 2008, during the time such unions could be legally performed in California. The state’s voters passed the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban in November 2008.

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OH: Gay Couple Married in New York Granted a Divorce in Columbus

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Ohio Gay Couple DivorcesTwo Columbus men married in New York were granted a divorce by a private judge appointed by Franklin County Domestic Relations Court.

Jonathan E. Baize, 31, and Stephen J. Wissman, 31, were granted a divorce last week by Judge Donald A. Cox after a 10-minute, “unremarkable” hearing, said attorney Thomas J. Addesa. He represented only Baize in the case.

Baize and Wissman were married in New York on Sept.1 last year, but later agreed to divorce.

Full Story from the Columbus Dispatch

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Gay Man to President Obama: Please Don’t Deport My Husband

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Another awful story of a married binational gay couple, Brian and Alfonso (together for 10 years), hit with the threat of being deported under DOMA. Alfonso hasn’t lived in Mexico for 20 years and is being threatened with deportation.

In a post at Stop the Deportations, Brian writes about a particularly awful recent episode:

Our life was on a happy, albeit somewhat boringly ordinary, trajectory until one fateful night last summer. That night and the events that followed have brought me to a whole new level of understanding about how precarious Alfonso’s life had been up to this point. That night we were pulled over for a routine traffic stop. The local law enforcement did their regular background checks and that is when the train went off of the proverbial rails. You see, the local authorities have been conscripted by the federal government in a weird, Orwellian, 1984, Big-Brother sort of way so that now the local authorities are forced to send information directly to federal agencies.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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NH: Almost 1,900 Gay/Lesbian Couples Married in State

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

New Hampshire Gay WeddingsThe state Division of Vital Records at the Department of State has been keeping track of civil unions and same-sex marriages performed in the state since 2008, when the state began recognizing civil unions.

As of Friday, there have been 1,887 same-sex marriages recorded in New Hampshire, including 785 civil unions that converted to marriages after the state’s same-sex marriage law took effect on Jan. 1, 2010.

Full Story from the Union Leader

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VT: US Government Threatens to Deport Married Lesbian

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Vermont Bi-National Lesbian CoupleYet another married binational gay couple is being hit with a deportation threat over DOMA, WCAX reports:

Frances Herbert and Takako Ueda met in college and have known each other for 30 years. They have shared countless dinners, laughs and tears. “I knew that she was the one,” Ueda said.

After college Ueda returned to Japan and started a life with a husband and new home. But after a visit from Herbert in 1999, her life changed again.

“When I die. When I put my one leg into a coffin, I don’t want to regret,” she said.

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China: Are 16 Million Gay Men Married to Women?

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Chinese Gay MenA university professor in China has estimated that 16 million women in the world’s most populous country are married to gays.

Professor Zhang Bei-chuan of Qingdao University says the huge number of women – equivalent to the population of the Netherlands – who have tied the knot with gay men are struggling to cope.

Speaking to state-run China Daily, the academic said as many as 90% of gay Chinese men marry to conform with social norms.

Full Story from Pink News

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NY: Alan Cumming Marries Partner

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Alan Cumming Gets MarriedActor Alan Cumming married his partner Grant Shaffer over the weekend in New York City on the fifth anniversary of their civil partnership in the UK.

Tweeted Cumming on Saturday: “I just got married!!!!!”

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CA: Pelosi Intervenes, Wins Married Binational Couple Two Year Reprieve

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, a bi-national, married gay couple who have lived most of the 19 years of their relationship in San Francisco’s Castro district, today won a two year stay against the threat of deportation, thanks to the personal intervention of their representative, House leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and state Sen. Mark Leno, a Democrat who represents parts of San Francisco, also provided assistance.

Makk is a citizen of Australia married to Wells, a U.S. citizen who suffers from AIDS-related illnesses. Makk is his primary caregiver. Makk was denied consideration for a green card based on his marriage to a citizen by the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which bars all federal marital rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples. The law covers not only immigration issues but also hundreds of tax, Social Security and other federal laws.

“We’re still dizzy from the news,” said Makk. “We are elated.” “I’m relieved, really excited and relieved,” Wells said. “I am so grateful I don’t have to worry about Anthony being taken out of the country.”

Full Story from SFGate

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Skater Johnny Weir Married His Partner

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

On New Year’s Eve, former Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir excitedly told his Twitter followers that he got hitched to his boyfriend Victor Voronov.

Weir tweeted: “I’m married! @vitya_zvesda”

Voronov tweeted: “Ringing in the New Year with my new hubby @JohnnyGWeir! #ELATED.”

Weir later tweeted more details: “Wedding in summer! But all the official stuff is done now! No more livin’ in sin!”

Full Story from SDGLN

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