Marriage law, recognition and equality.
Bride Pride, billed by organizers as the “World’s Largest All-Girl Wedding & Renewal Ceremony,” is planned for next February in St. Petersburg, Florida, with Cynthia Nixon serving as “Reverend-for-the-Day.”
France’s parliament narrowly approved François-Noël Buffet as Défenseur des droits, a post responsible for protecting equal treatment under French law.
The former president renewed criticism of Pete Buttigieg, mixing air travel attacks with a sarcastic reference to Buttigieg’s husband and the pair’s marriage.
Karol Nawrocki rejected legislation backed by Donald Tusk’s coalition that would have created Poland’s first legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
The Maine Democrat tied the fatal ICE shooting of a Colombian man to broader questions about accountability, while also arguing that Susan Collins’s LGBTQ+ record can be used against her in November.
Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile are asking the High Court to find Botswana’s Marriage Act unconstitutional after officials refused to register their marriage in 2025.
The soccer star said anti-trans politics and corporate caution are making life harder for LGBTQ+ people, and for women and girls more broadly.
Reid Rasner says a former state senator and an Iowa Republican spread false accusations that he was a paedophile, leading to death threats, missed forums and a defamation fight.
The Jurassic Park star died in Sydney, Australia, following a four-year battle with blood cancer. He had also spoken forcefully for marriage equality in Australia.
The Kentucky senator said he is rebuilding his strength, handling Senate business from his office and does not intend to leave office early.
The South Carolina Republican died on 11 July after what the Associated Press described as a “brief and sudden illness.”
Judge Dianne Hensley of Waco filed a new federal case after years of disputes over her refusal to perform same-sex marriages while officiating opposite-sex weddings.
A 2012 paper by sociologist Mark Regnerus is back in circulation as opponents of Obergefell v. Hodges seek to cast doubt on same-gender parenting.
As three-person relationships become more visible in culture and conversation, people who have lived in throuples describe the rewards, rivalries and breakdowns that can follow when love is no longer shared evenly.
