In July 2024, the 50-year-old came out as gay on Instagram, uploading a photo of himself and his partner Etienne Bousquet-Cassagne, 36, looking at a sunset. The pictured was captioned: "The most beautiful thing in life is when you have the right partner by your side with whom you can share everything." On Sunday (8 February), German outlet Bild reported that Schumacher and Bousquet-Cassagne are planning to tie the knot during a three-day event in Saint-Tropez this May.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard - who was spotted yesterday in an FBI raid on the election offices of Fulton Country, Georgia (a county that Donald Trump targeted in his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election) - has ties to anti-gay organizations in her home state of Hawaii, including one that promoted conversion therapy, the widely debunked practice of trying to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
Since the wacky life sim series kicked off in 2009, Nintendo's Tomodachi Life has been like a big, beloved dollhouse where players watch their Miis get into the weirdest relationships possible. There's just been one caveat: until today, Miis have never been allowed to be gay. Just seconds into Thursday's Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct , Nintendo confirmed that players will finally be able to make their Miis queer through a surprisingly inclusive settings menu that occurs during the usual Mii creation process.
For their wedding day, the grooms say they started the planning on very different pages: Josh loves a crowd and the spotlight and would have invited everyone in his contacts list, they say, whereas John would have been happy to elope, and wanted an intimate vibe. Ultimately they found middle ground, they say, compromising with a celebration size-110 guests-that suited them both.
Late last December, Waco, Texas, Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a federal lawsuit, claiming she had the right to refuse to marry same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs. As part of the lawsuit, she also argued that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell decision establishing nationwide marriage equality should be overruled. The filing garnered some headlines, reporting a new threat to Obergefell.
"Luckily, the opposite impulse also exists," she wrote, "despite the increasing onslaught of deliberate cruelty, lost ground, and assaults on our very understanding of who we are over the last year, our better instincts prevail-our instincts not only to subsist and survive, but to thrive." She explained that on January 20, 2025, she was given the opportunity to live a life "alternative to the shuttered, circumscribed, and lonely life" she'd been living.
As justifications for Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela proliferate and change, a video of former Fox host Tucker Carlson in which he claims that the U.S. wants Venezuela to legalize marriage for same-sex couples has resurfaced.
A Texas judge is asking a federal court to overturn marriage equality in the U.S., arguing in a lawsuit filed on Friday that marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional because it was legalized in a decision that "subordinat[ed] state law to the policy preferences of unelected judges." The case involves Judge Dianne Hensley of Waco, Texas, who has been involved in years of legal proceedings to try to win the right to not perform marriages for same-sex couples while still performing them for opposite-sex couples.
Positions held by conservative campaigner Maria Steen on a range of political and social issues, from Repeal to same-sex marriage, will be closely scrutinised by her opponents if she enters the presidential race.
➡️ The creators of Project 2025 have jumped at the chance to use Charlie Kirk's murder to attack the transgender community. Meanwhile, a man in Phoenix was arrested after threatening to shoot up a queer bar in retaliation. We also got more insight into Pope Leo's stance on same-sex weddings, and heard from Pete Buttigieg after Kamala Harris's upcoming book revealed that she didn't think America was ready for a gay VP candidate.
On Modern Family, Cameron and Mitchell got married in the season five finale, "The Wedding" in 2014. Their marriage followed the real-world decision making in the US Supreme Court regarding gay marriage. In 2013, the court struck down California's proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. That year, the Supreme Court also declared the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, unconstitutional.
Data from a Pew Research Center poll found that 59 per cent of LGBTQ+ adults want to get married in their lifetime, a significant increase from 28 per cent in 2013.
Cohen called out Davis for her multiple marriages and alleged hypocrisy regarding her views on the sanctity of marriage, stating, "Lady, you've been married four times to three different people..."
Ten years ago, I stood beside the woman I loved... We wasted no time stepping into that long-denied space, hearts full, hands trembling, knowing we were among the first wave of people finally granted the legal right to say "yes" to love.
