In November of this year, a group of 44 bishops from the Church of England issued a public statement in support of the LGBTQIA+ community, stating their hope that immediate action will be taken to allow priests within the clergy to enter same-sex civil marriages. This statement was put forth only a few weeks after…
Lesbian couple marry in controversial Russian ceremony Russia has seen its first LGBT wedding – despite laws which are widely viewed outside Russia as hostile to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. St Petersburg couple, Irina Shumilova and Alyona Fursova exploited a legal loop hole to get married – they were able to do…
The Hollywood actress Jodie Foster has married her girlfriend Alexandra Hedison. Ms Hedison is an actress and photographer who started dating Jodie Foster a year ago, reports say. The latest gay celebrity wedding took place last weekend, although the location of the ceremony is not known. However, since Ms Foster lives in California, one of…
Elton John is to marry his long-term partner David Furnish. The couple are already in a civil partnership but want to take their vows now that same sex marriage is legal in England and Wales. The pair held a lavish civil partnership ceremony in 2005 in Windsor, but David Furnish told the Las Vegas Review-Journal…
A lesbian couple who were married in Canada 11 years ago have finally been able to recognise their marriage in the UK. Celia Kitzinger, 57, and Sue Wilkinson, 60, both university academics, celebrated the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act coming into force at 12.01am, on Thursday 13th March 2014, which meant that the law in England and…