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Travel group: A Mexico vacation can save gay teens from suicide
An event planning company has decided to target the gay market, by announcing that they’ll help plan gay and lesbian weddings in Mexico. That’s not the story, however. The event planning group released a bizarre press release that actually trumpeted gay teen suicides as part of the reason why homosexuals…
UK’s Prince William engaged to longtime girlfriend
Palace says Prince William and Kate Middleton engaged to be married next year in London Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton are engaged and will marry next spring or summer in London — a royal wedding that Britons have been eagerly awaiting for years. The announcement Tuesday by royal officials…
Taiwan woman ‘marries’ herself
TAIPEI — A Taiwanese woman said Sunday she had “married” herself by throwing a wedding banquet. The 30-year-old Chen Wei-yi, who has been an Internet sensation since announcing her “wedding” plans last month, held the ceremony in a Taipei hotel Saturday witnessed by 30 relatives and friends. “Marrying myself is…
Can’t we all just get along?
I rarely find myself—with the exception of watching Fox News, or reading something in the “we’re dudes who think sexism is daring and funny” genre—filled with blinding, searing hatred towards everyone involved when I engage with some media product. I’m just a cheery person that way. But I made an…
US terror suspects show court wedding gear: lawyer
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Five Americans on trial in Pakistan for terrorism on Friday claimed wedding finery and return tickets to the United States proved they had nothing to do with militancy, a defence lawyer said. The men aged 19 to 25 are on trial in a closed anti-terrorism court convened…
Amid heavy security, gay couples marry in Washington, DC
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amid heavy security and without many of the trappings of a traditional wedding, three gay couples were married Tuesday in a ceremony in Washington on the first day same-sex marriages were celebrated in the US capital. Police cars lining the streets outside the headquarters building of gay…
Gay marriage generates millions, expert tells court
SAN FRANCISCO — Legalizing same-sex marriage would generate millions of dollars for San Francisco, the city’s chief economist said Thursday, as a trial on California’s gay wedding ban entered a fourth day. Edmund Egan, who directs San Francisco’s Office of Economic Analysis, said legalization of same-sex marriage would increase the…
Malawi arrests newly-wed gays for ‘gross indecency’
BLANTYRE — A gay couple was jailed for “gross indecency” in Malawi after the country’s first same-sex public wedding ceremony over the weekend, as several African states were clamping down on homosexuality. A police spokesman told AFP that Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, the first Malawian gays to publicly wed…
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