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Gay couple’s park wedding interrupted by string of homophobic slurs
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — An Arizona couple is speaking out, denouncing those responsible for a string of homophobic slurs that interrupted their wedding ceremony in a San Diego-area park last month. Oscar De Las Salas and Gary Jackson – frequent visitors to San Diego – picked Coronado’s Centennial Park for their Aug. 17 wedding, attended by dozens …
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan officiates her first same-sex wedding
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has officiated for the first time at a same-sex wedding, a Maryland ceremony for her former law clerk and his husband. Kagan presided on Sunday over the wedding of former clerk Mitchell Reich and Patrick Pearsall in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Neil Patrick Harris shares wedding moments on ‘The View’
Actor Neil Patrick Harris, who married longtime partner, actor and chef David Burtka in Italy over the weekend, shares wedding moments with Rosie O’Donnell and Whoppi Goldberg on “The View.”
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Gay rights groups outraged over straight men who married to win rugby tickets
Gay rights groups in New Zealand are fuming over the legal, same-sex marriage between two heterosexual men in a radio station stunt in exchange for tickets to the Rugby World Cup to be held in the United Kingdom in 2015. Self-described best mates since childhood, Matt McCormick, 24, married engineering student Travis McIntos, 23, in a rugby stadium on Friday.
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Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka get married in Italy
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka married in Italy over the weekend, Harris announced on Twitter Monday. According to E! News, How I Met Your Mother producer and director Pam Fryman officiated the ceremony, which also featured a performance by Elton John.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg to officiate another same-sex wedding
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate another same-sex wedding this weekend in New York. Ginsburg will officiate the ceremony for Danny Rubens, her former law clerk, and his his soon-to-be spouse Danny Grossman, also an attorney.
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N.Y. farm will no longer host weddings rather than allow same-sex ceremonies
SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. — The owners of an upstate New York farm who were ordered to pay $13,000 in fines and restitution for refusing to host a lesbian couple’s wedding say they will discontinue hosting all weddings rather than accommodate same-sex wedding ceremonies. Cynthia and Robert Gifford, owners of the Liberty Ridge Farm in Schaghticoke, N.Y., “have decided…
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Minn. lodge to pay for gay couple’s wedding after initially turning them away
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The owners of a lodge in central Minnesota have agreed to pick up the tab for the wedding and reception of a same-sex couple they initially turned away. The Minnesota Human Rights Department says Cole Frey and his fiance have settled their discrimination case against the owners of Rice Creek Hunting and Recreation. The Rice Creek Lodge is a …
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Mennonite pastor under scrutiny for presiding over same-sex wedding
GOSHEN, Ind. — Two Mennonite conferences will review the credentials of a Goshen pastor who presided over the marriage of a same-sex couple in violation of the religion’s rules. Assembly Mennonite Church Pastor Karl Shelly wrote in a statement he submitted to the Indiana-Michigan conference that he performed the service in May after determining that …
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S.C. businesses roll out the red carpet for ‘Big Gay’ wedding celebration
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gay rights advocates hope the buzz surrounding a “Big, Gay ‘I Do'” wedding celebration in Charleston will show how much money South Carolina’s businesses are losing to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. With federal courts overturning similar bans in other states, advocates in a city that’s already one of the nation’s top wedding locales decided to…