French people protest against gay marriage ahead of parliament vote in Paris on April 23, 2013. French parliament has adopted a bill legalizing gay marriages and adoptions for same-sex couples, despite massive opposition protests. The lower house National Assembly, where President Francois Hollande’s Socialists have an absolute majority, approved the bill on Tuesday with 331 votes against 225. Before... 

Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in Paris to protest a planned legalization of same-sex marriage on January 13, 2013. Thousands of the French have staged a demonstration in the capital, Paris, in a last-ditch effort to block a controversial bill on gay marriage. Opponents of gay marriage took to the streets in Paris on Sunday, carrying French flags and pink and blue banners which represented... 

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Paris against France’s gay marriage law that allows homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, March 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of French conservatives and activists have marched through the streets of Paris to protest French legislation allowing same-sex marriage. Protesters on Sunday rallied on a route leading to the Champs Elysees after police... 

Members of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party urged him to delay a parliamentary vote on gay marriage, warning it could harm his re-election bid. Conservative MPs are also preparing to defy Cameron’s plan to legalize gay marriage. Opponents of the gay marriage bill have warned the issue could weaken the party and harm Cameron’s chances of re-election in 2015. Conservative association... 

French MPs have approved the most important article in a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, despite huge protests earlier in the month that saw hundreds of thousands of people mass in Paris to oppose the measure. Deputies voted 249-97 in favor of redefining marriage as an agreement between two people, rather than between a man and a woman. The measure was backed by President Françoise Hollande’s... 

Three hundred thousand people took to the streets of Paris to oppose plans by Socialist President Francois Hollande to enact a same-sex marriage law by June. Several hundred thousand demonstrators filled the streets of Paris during a protest against President Francois Hollande’s plans to legalize gay marriage later this year. The proposed law would allow same-sex couples to adopt children. The protesters,... 

Gay weddings will be held in churches under radical plans to be unveiled by David Cameron, it emerged today. The Prime Minister is to defy opposition from more than 100 Tory backbenchers to back religious groups hosting same-sex weddings. He will stop short of forcing groups which are against the policy from having to hold gay weddings, but will argue that homosexual couples should have the same rights... 

A few days ago, Germany’s Ministry of Justice exposed the draft amendments to the legislation to legalize gay marriage in the country. In fact, sexual minorities enjoy complete freedom in the country. In 2001, their freedom became official: their relationship was called a “civil partnership”. Something like a civil marriage or live-in relationship. Nowadays, according to the proposed... 

US President Barack Obama officially endorsed same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Also on the president’s agenda for the day was once again flip-flopping on a major issue during an election year. Explaining his recent change of heart to ABC’s Robin Roberts in an interview taped Tuesday afternoon, President Obama says, “at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important... 

Until recently, Moscow authorities were the prime enemy of the Russian gay community. The Moscow government has earned such a reputation for the decisions to ban gay pride parades in the Russian capital. On Sunday, the authorities of St. Petersburg picked up the slack. The governor of Russia’s cultural capital, Georgy Poltavchenko, signed the document that prohibited the propaganda of homosexual... 

Advocating: Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, appeared in a commercial supporting same-sex marriage for the Human Rights Campaign Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, one of Wall Street’s most powerful figures, has become the first major business leader to join a national media campaign in support of same-sex marriage. Gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign... 

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has expressed her support for a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage, despite her personal opposition to changing the existing law. In an opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian newspapers, Gillard emphasized that politicians should have the freedom to vote in parliament based on their own values and beliefs. This stance... 

Proud Gay Portuguese president Anibal Cavaco Silva has approved a law authorising gay marriages, making Portugal the sixth country in Europe to allow same-sex unions. Mr Silva, a practicing Roman Catholic from Portugal’s main opposition centre-right party, says he has put his “personal convictions” aside in deciding to approve the legislation. The law, adopted in February by the centre-left...