Cuba recently held a vote on a sweeping Family Law Code that not only redefines the rights for children and grandparents, but also legalizes marriage for same-sex couples.
June is Pride Month, and the capital of Mexico, Mexico City, celebrates it with the city government holding a mass wedding within the plaza of the city civil registry. Around 100 same-sex couples, many of whom traveled over 100 kilometers just to take part in the marriage ceremony, tied the knot in the government-sponsored wedding event.
Mexico's highest court on Jan. 26 legalized same-sex marriage in Jalisco state, which is home to more than 7 million inhabitants and contains the country's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
A Chinese court is set to hear a case that could help pave the way for gay marriage in the world's most populous country, which currently does not legally recognize same-sex unions in any form.
The owners of an Oregon bakery coughed up more than $135,000 in state-ordered fees on Monday for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding back in 2013.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the second Cuban-American Republican presidential candidate, said President Barack Obama's 2012 deferred action program "is important," but he wants to see the end of the deferred action program.
Immigrant and worker's rights group VOZ was denied a large grant by a Latino Catholic organization due to their affiliation with a group that supports same-sex marriage.
After a suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson on Oct. 1, 2012, her wife and fellow guardswoman Tracy Dice Johnson was left in the dark as to whether or not the U.S. military would recognize their marriage and grant her the same benefits to which heterosexual married couples are entitled.
On Monday, Oregon became the 18th state to permit same-sex marriage after a federal judge ruled that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
