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France's first out-gay Prime Minster, Gabriel Attal — who gay men across the U.S. are crushing on — said the country's view of the LGBTQ+ community has evolved over the years.
Stefanos Kasselakis, who is married to an American, now sets his sight on becoming the country’s first gay prime minister.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard dined with two lesbian couples and a pair of gay men on Tuesday. She told them marriage equality would assuredly happen in the country, but she remains opposed to changing the law.
And he's (apparently) single!
With foreign leaders this sexy, we'll be watching the news all day long!
Pekka Haavisto, the first openly gay presidential candidate in Finland, has reached a run-off election scheduled for next month.
Karen Pence did not attend the brunch.
This politician is just too cute for words!
With this final, formal step in a long debate, Queen Elizabeth II has given her blessing to same-sex marriages, which will begin next year in the United Kingdom.
Australians hold new Prime Minister to his word on marriage rights, and party.
Events will be held all day Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz from Nazi Germany.
The first accredited university course on gay studies in Italy is being offered this winter in Milan. the course was the brainchild of Giacomo Moro, a 23-year-old biology major. He conceived of the course in response to a death threat from a man who saw him hanging fliers on campus for the gay association.
Iceland's lesbian prime minister was among the first gay people to marry in her country as its marriage equality law went into effect Sunday. Johanna Sigurdardottir married her longtime partner, Jonina Leosdottir, when the couple requested that their seven-year-old civil union be transferred into a marriage.
Gabriel Attal has been appointed as France's new Prime Minister, becoming the first out LGBTQ+ person to serve in the position, and the youngest in over 65 years.
American actress Lily Tomlin dressed as a rainbow-colored superhero to kick off this year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, where superheroes marched alongside pairs of brides, pairs of grooms, cheerleaders, nuns, and vampires this past weekend. The Australian Marriage Equality Now float lampooned two marriage equality opponents, featuring giant figures of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, leader of the opposition Liberal Party in parliament, speaking to each other in thought bubbles. Gillard was portrayed wearing a wedding dress, Abbott a brief bathing suit.
Once everyone survived Y2K panic, the race for gay marriage heated up around the globe in the early 2000's. While LGBT activists stood in the trenches waging the war for equitable civil rights, lesbians in politics and pop culture came out of their closets en masse and crashed through many a glass ceiling. Same-Sex marriage, the Hate Crimes Bill, lesbian mayors and Prime Ministers, Ellen Degeneres, Wanda Sykes, AfterEllen, Kelly McGillis, Meredith Baxter, Rosie O'Donnell, Melissa Etheridge, South of Nowhere, Grey's Anatomy andThe L Word are just a few of the higlights.
“I am happy to express it.”
Australian finance minister Penny Wong, the first openly gay member of the federal cabinet, announced that she and her partner are expecting a baby, a development with potential to affect the dynamics of the marriage equality debate. The Australian Associated Press reports that Wong’s partner Sophie Allouache is expected to give birth to the baby conceived through in vitro fertilization in December, around the same time the Australian Labor Party is scheduled to discuss marriage equality at its annual conference.
Ireland appears poised to follow Scotland and may soon become the 18th country to legalize marriage for same-sex couples.
The election of a conservative, Mariano Rajoy, as Spain’s prime minister has some LGBT activists worried he will try to repeal the nation’s marriage equality law. Rajoy’s Popular Party has filed a suit challenging the law, and he has said he believes it is unconstitutional and that he prefers civil unions to marriage for same-sex couples.
