In a historic event, Chile recently welcomed its first legal same-sex marriage, joining the ranks of 30 other countries worldwide that have passed similar laws allowing same-sex marriage and, in doing so, ensuring same-sex [...]
Category: Marriage Equality
IRS Says Assisted Reproduction for LGBTQ Couples Not Deductible
With income tax time upon us, same-sex couples who hoped to deduct expenses for assisted reproductive technologies such as egg or sperm donation, in vitro fertilization or surrogacy are meeting with disappointment—even as [...]
Switzerland to vote on LGBTQ marriage
Swiss voters will decide September 26 whether to legalize same-sex marriage, a change in the law that also would give lesbian couples access to donor sperm and same-sex couples the ability to adopt children together. Both [...]
As the U.S. Supreme Court reconvened last week for the first time since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. came out with a harsh critique [...]
A federal court has ruled, once again, that the child of a legally married gay couple, born via surrogacy abroad, is a U.S. citizen and has been since her 2019 birth—refuting the Trump administration’s continuing policy [...]