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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Sumiche Jewelry, Minneapolis

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Gay Friendly Wedding Vendors in Minnesota

Sumiche Jewelry, MinneapolisSumiche Jewelry has more than twenty years of experience making beautiful custom wedding rings for customers around the world – beautiful symbols of your own enduring love for your partner.

We believe in using fair trade metals (including gold and platinum), recycled metals (including silver), conflict-free diamonds and fair trade gems… we believe in sustainability and in using precious gems and metals wisely, because we believe in lasting relationships with the planet, too.

We’re the only jeweler in the United States using Certified “Green” Gold and Platinum in all our jewelry – sustainably mined and fairly traded in Columbia’s Choco region by artisanal miners.

Sumiche Jewelry imports these metals directly from Corporaction Oro-Verde. We use 100% recycled and sustainably mined gold and platinum and recycled sterling silver to create our beautiful, custom wedding rings.

See the Sumiche jewelry Expanded Listing on Purple Unions Here

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MN: Gay Couple Marries in Protest

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Towleroad readers Patrick and Scott sent us this clip of their wedding in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a measure to ban same-sex marriage will be on the ballot in November.

Writes the couple: “Although our marriage is not legal yet, here’s hoping it will be soon.” Patrick and Scott’s wedding was beautifully shot by John Hoel, who writes:

“It was truly a day I’ll never forget and I was so honored to have captured it. Elizabeth couldn’t have put it more eloquently during the ceremony, ‘When our law lags behind, people continue to live their truth and create their own version of a family, and this is what Patrick and Scott are deciding to do today.’

Patrick + Scott from John Hoel on Vimeo.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):

–USA, CA, Los Angeles: 10/14, Voter Canvass Training, The Village, 6:30-9:30 PM.
–USA, CA, Sacramento: 10/14, EQCA Briefing on Prop. 8 Case, Elections, TBD, 1-1:30 PM.
–USA, CA, West Hollywood: 10/14, Equality Network Meeting, TBD, TBD.
–USA, MA, Boston: 10/14, Phone Bank for Equality, Mass Equality Office, 5-9 PM.
–USA, MN, Minneapolis: 10/14, Candlelight Vigil for Victims of anti-GLBT Bullying , Loring Park, TBD.

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Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

(Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):

–USA, CA, Los Angeles: 10/13, LA Black LGBT Network Meeting, Jewel’s Catch One, 7-9 PM.
–USA, CA, Los Angeles: 10/14, Voter Canvass Training, The Village, 6:30-9:30 PM.
–USA, CA, Sacramento: 10/14, EQCA Briefing on Prop. 8 Case, Elections, TBD, 1-1:30 PM.
–USA, CA, West Hollywood: 10/14, Equality Network Meeting, TBD, TBD.
–USA, MA, Boston: 10/14, Phone Bank for Equality, Mass Equality Office, 5-9 PM.
–USA, MN, Minneapolis: 10/14, Candlelight Vigil for Victims of anti-GLBT Bullying , Loring Park, TBD.
–USA, WA, Seattle: 10/13, Phonebanking for Pro-Equality Candidates, Equal Rights WA Offc, 6-8 PM.

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Cyclist Rides from Minneapolis to Texas for Gay Rights

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Danielle Girdano is just coming into the home-stretch of the Spirit PrairieTrail on her bicycle trek to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. Her ride is called “Ride the Arc.”

“The name ‘Ride the Arc’ comes from a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quote,” she said. “At the end of the quote, he says, ‘’he arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.’”

Girdano said part of her goal in this project is to present a side of the gay community other than the sexually-charged events that get the most publicity.

Full Story from Ada Evening News

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MN: NOM Has Best Showing of Tour in Minneapolis – 75 People

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Supporters of traditional marriage and gay marriage turned out in roughly equal numbers Wednesday to take part in simultaneous rallies on the State Capitol grounds, where the separate gatherings sparked none of the small but loud confrontations seen elsewhere in recent days.

About 150 people gathered on the lawn in front of the Capitol to hear speakers from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which is on a national tour organizing rallies in support of measures to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

NOM president Brian Brown led supporters chanting “One man, one woman!” and said the tour stop in Minnesota was designed to fight proposed legislation that would legalize gay marriage in Minnesota. He called heterosexual marriage a “human universal” and “the basis of our society,” while other speakers, including clergy members and a radio talk show host, cited the right of children to have both a mother and a father and criticized homosexual acts as lacking in spirituality.

Full Story from the Star Tribune

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Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

(Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):

–USA, CA, West Hollywood: 07/27, Love Honor Cherish Meeting, Nat’l Council for Jewish Women, 7:30 PM.
–USA, DC, Washington: 07/27, Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance Meeting, Sumner School Museum, 7 PM.
–USA, MN, Minneapolis: 07/27, Signmaking for Counterprotests, OutFront MN Office, 5:30-8:30 PM.
–USA, MN, Saint Paul: 07/28, NOM Anti Gay Marriage Tour, Minnesota State Capitol, 12-1 PM.
–USA, MN, Saint Paul: 07/28, Counterprotest NOM Bus Tour w/OutFront, Capitol Rotunda, 12-12:30 PM.
–USA, NY, Rochester: 07/27, Civil Rights Front Rochester, Equal Grounds, 7 PM.
–USA, RI, Providence: 07/27, Providence Equality Action Committee Meeting, Bell St. Chapel, 7-8:30 PM.
–USA, WI, Madison: 07/27, NOM Anti Gay Marriage Tour, State House, 12-1 PM.
–USA, WI, Madison: 07/27, Counterprotest NOM’s Tour, Campus Mall, 11 AM.
–USA, WI, Madison: 07/27, Counterprotest NOM’s Tour, TBD, 12-1 PM.

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Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow (Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):

–USA, DC, Washington: 07/27, Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance Meeting, Sumner School Museum, 7 PM.
–USA, IN, Indianapolis: 07/26, NOM Anti Gay Marriage Tour, State House, East Steps, 12-1 PM.
–USA, IN, Indianapolis: 07/26, Counterprotest NOM’s Tour, St. Luke’s UMC, 12-1 PM.
–USA, MN, Minneapolis: 07/27, Signmaking for Counterprotests, OutFront MN Office, 5:30-8:30 PM.
–USA, NY, Rochester: 07/27, Civil Rights Front Rochester, Equal Grounds, 7 PM.
–USA, WI, Madison: 07/27, NOM Anti Gay Marriage Tour, State House, 12-1 PM.
–USA, WI, Madison: 07/27, Counterprotest NOM’s Tour, Campus Mall, 11 AM.
–USA, WI, Madison: 07/27, Counterprotest NOM’s Tour, TBD, 12-1 PM.

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