“I orientated myself toward the women in my life because they felt safe,” says Darren Palmer.
Brenna Harding,who at age eight introduced Australia to her two mums,says Cumberland Council’s ban of a same-sex parenting book shows how little has changed.
If we had tempered our self-congratulation over marriage equality,we might have left more outlets for frustration than the brute signal of banning books.
The decision of a Labor councillor to vote in favour of a motion to ban books about same-sex parenting has created a headache for the ALP in western Sydney.
Conservative councillor Steve Christou made the admission as the NSW government accused the western Sydney council of breaking state-enforced library guidelines.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s winery wedding in the Adelaide Hills is the first of four ministerial weddings this year.
Nicolette Lewis and Lana De Angelis are two of the 10,440 women who have married other women in NSW since marriage equality laws took effect.
Despite the opposition of the Church,same-sex couples will now be able to marry in a civil ceremony and adopt children.
Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples as long as they are not part of regular Church rituals or liturgies,the Vatican said.
Bouquets and garter tosses? In the bin. The “giving away” of the bride? Considered medieval at this point.
The country became the first in South Asia to legalise same-sex marriage,and only the second in the whole of Asia,after Taiwan.