Rudy Giuliani appears to have broken a long-held promise to marry his gay friends, the New York Postreports. Howard Koeppel, the car dealer who provided a crash pad for Giuliani in 2001 for six months during his divorce battle, recently spoke to the Post about a promise he says the former New York City mayor [...]
New York legislator James Alesi, the first Republican in the state Senate to come out in favor of the Marriage Equality Act, has a message for Barack Obama. Obama’s viewpoint on states’ rights regarding marriage equality — which he expounded at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City on Thursday, the night before the gay [...]
Many Parisian revelers demanded that France follow New York’s lead as they marched under a sea of rainbow-colored flags and jigged to thumping techno beats in a gay pride parade on Saturday. Despite the festivities, the mood was bittersweet in France — where lawmakers had rejected a bill seeking to legalize same-sex marriage, despite growing [...]
Lawmakers voted late Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples can wed, and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born. The same-sex marriage bill was approved on a 33 to 29 vote, as four Republican state senators joined 29 [...]
Saudi Arabian Airlines is set to join global airline alliance SkyTeam in 2012 and the new partnership appears to be causing anxiety and concern in certain religious circles. Much of the backlash is directed at Delta Air Lines, the only U.S. carrier in the 13-member airline group. According to a USA Today report Delta might [...]
The New York state Senate again put off a vote on legalizing same-sex marriage on Thursday, and the Republican Senate leader said lawmakers would meet again on Friday to decide what to do. The bill is one vote short of enough support for passage in the state Senate. It was approved in the state Assembly [...]
President Barack Obama has delivered important political victories for gays but is unlikely to push his support for gay rights much further before the 2012 election in case he alienates independent voters. Gays call for the White House to back gay marriage and strengthen federal anti-discrimination protection will probably go unheeded as Obama treads carefully [...]
Cee Lo Green, who on Friday took to Twitter and called a reviewer “gay” for writing a negative review of his June 16 performance in Minneapolis, said he said shouldn’t “have to apologize for speaking my mind or defending my performance.” In an interview with Us Weekly, Green, a vocal coach on the NBC reality [...]
Former New York Giants receiver David Tyree said that allowing same-sex couples to wed could lead to “anarchy.” Tyree became the hero of Super Bowl XLII when he made a fourth-quarter catch that allowed the Giants to win the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots. Now, he says, he would give up his 2007 [...]
New York, where the gay rights movement was born but has run up against conservative forces, could again change the political landscape for gays by becoming the largest state to allow same-sex marriage. Advocates guided by first-term Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo have been maneuvering before the end of the legislative session Monday to get the [...]