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Source: AFP , Earthtimes , PinkNews OSLO -- Norway's parliament on Wednesday adopted a new gender-neutral marriage law that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry and adopt children and permits lesbians to be artificially inseminated, AFP reports. After a heated debate, the members of parliament...

Source: Sophia News Agency , News24.com , Reuters Prosecutors have filed charges against the small-town mayor who performed the first two weddings of same-sex couples yesterday in Greece. Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the civil ceremonies for two couples, one gay and one lesbian, shortly after dawn...

Source: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , BBC News , AFP Defying threats of prosecution, the mayor of a remote Greek island performed the country’s first same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Tilos Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the early morning civil ceremony between two men before hundreds of witnesses, including...

Source: ABC News (Australia) , The Age Canberra -- It wasn't a marriage, or even a civil union, but Kevin Boreham and Edwin Ho became "partners for life" on the shores of Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin Monday. Mr Boreham, a university lecturer, and Mr Ho, a public servant, were the...

Source: Advocate , Reuters via Boston Globe ATHENS -- The top prosecutor in Greece has vowed to stop it, but the mayor of the Aegean island city of Tilos says he'll soon officiate at the wedding of at least one gay couple. Couples who have found a legal loophole to hold the first gay weddings in...

Source: Canberra Times , AFP , The Australian , ABC News (Australia) SYDNEY -- Right-wing Australian Christian groups Monday welcomed a decision by a local territory government to abandon its plans to legalize same-sex civil union ceremonies after intervention from the Labor government of Prime Minister...

Source: The Age , ABC News (Australia) , Sydney Morning Herald SAME-SEX couples in Canberra have lost a legal battle for civil unions, after the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government was forced into a humiliating backdown on the issue during tense negotiations with the Federal Government. ACT...

Source: Sydney Morning Herald , ABC News (Australia) , The Age A major victory is on the horizon in the long battle by gay and lesbian partners in Australia for the same legal and financial rights as de facto heterosexual couples, Sydney Morning Herald reports. Australia's federal government plans...

Source: Haaretz , Scopical The State of Israel has agreed for the first time to register an overseas adoption by a gay couple and to grant the child Israeli citizenship, Haaretz reports. The landmark case involves a Cambodia-born boy, now eight years old, who was adopted in 2000 in the United States...

Source: Australian , Sydney Star Observer Canberra -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been presented with his first major challenge on gay law reform from within his own party. The political leader of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) -- a small semi-autonomous area that includes the federal...