YORK, England, July 31 (UPI) -- Quakers have become the first mainstream religious denomination in England to sanction gay marriage, a human rights campaigner says.
SYDNEY, July 8 (UPI) -- The Law and Justice Committee in the Australian state of New South Wales says the law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
BOSTON, July 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Census Bureau will unfairly ignore all same-sex marriages in Massachusetts during its nationwide 2010 census, a corporate lawyer says.
LOS ANGELES, July 25 (UPI) -- Inconsistencies between state and federal laws are making it difficult for same-sex couples to get divorced, law experts say.
URBANA, Ill., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Two U.S. studies dispute the stereotype that couples in same-sex relationships are not as committed as their heterosexual counterparts.
LONDON, July 30 (UPI) -- Britain's new equality law means homosexual couples have the same right to a hotel room as do married couples, it was reported Monday.
BOGOTA, June 16 (UPI) -- Colombia has drawn a step closer toward passing a law that would grant homosexual couples some of the same rights as heterosexual unions.
NEW PALTZ, N.Y., June 18 (UPI) -- Nine days after the mayor of New Paltz, N.Y., was barred from marrying gay couples, his deputy performed four same-sex weddings.
BOSTON, June 17 (UPI) -- About 2,500 same-sex couples applied for marriages licenses the first week gay couples could marry in Massachusetts, a Boston Globe survey showed Thursday.
CHICAGO, June 16 (UPI) -- Delegates to the American Medical Association's yearly meeting voted 316-130 to support allowing partners in same-sex couples to adopt children.
