Archive for April 2011

Americans nationwide are evenly divided over the issue of same sex marriage. But Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage. In a PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal. 40% said interracial marriage should be legal.

The Couples for Equality™ (“C4E”) team had a wonderful and fun time at Miami Beach Pride, where over 50,000 people attended the Parade on famous and beautiful Ocean Drive and the following Festival on the adjacent beach.  Couples for Equality™ debuted at Miami Beach Pride’s Legacy Couples reception at the Park Central Hotel on Ocean Drive honoring long-term, committed relationships by hosting a photo-shoot with Miami photographer Dale Stine.  Over 25 Legacy Couples who have been together from 10 to over 45 years, participated in the photo shoot (some of whom you see within this post). These photographs are all showcased on Couples for Equality™ under Galleries/Miami Beach Pride 2011.  The Legacy Couples event was the highlight of C4E’s day, and we were so fortunate to work with so many volunteers and organizers of Miami Beach Pride.

C4E would like to thank TOWLEROAD.com for their coverage of the "Global Launch" of Couples for Equality at Miami Beach Pride 2011. TOWLEROAD.com's article about our launch raised awareness and sent many wonderful people and couples to the Legacy Couples event we photographed and to our booth at the Miami Beach Pride Festival.

By Ari Ezra Waldman via towleroad.com

One subset of the gay community -- legally married bi-national same-sex couples -- must be feeling particularly whiplashed of late. One day, they are set to be ripped apart or forced into exile in Canada. Then, they get a reprieve from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) when representatives from the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore districts announce that they will hold in abeyance all deportation proceedings involving gay foreign nationals legally married to gay American citizens.