LGBT

Reports: Bug Allows Gay Marriage In Video Game; Fix Likely

Bill Chappell — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:10:00 +0000

Days after the gaming world began to buzz with reports that Nintendo's new life simulation game allows men to marry other men, it now seems that Nintendo is removing that possibility, which by all reports was unintended.

Questions arose after players of the popular new game Tomodachi Collection: New Life realized that men could marry men. They could also date, and raise children.

With Senate Approval, Delaware Poised To Allow Gay Marriage

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:29:00 +0000

The Delaware Senate passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriages. Gov. Jack Markell said he would sign the bill, which means that the state is poised to become the 11th in the country to allow gay marriages.

The vote comes less than a week after Rhode Island Gov.

Iowa Court: List Both Same-Sex Parents On Birth Certificates

Scott Neuman — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:02:00 +0000

Iowa's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the state's health department must include the names of both same-sex spouses as parents on a child's birth certificate.

The ruling stems from a challenge brought by Heather and Melissa Gartner of Des Moines, following the Iowa Department of Public Health's refusal in 2009 to list Heather as a p

After Years Of Hiding, 'Walking In Love' As Transgender

Fri, 03 May 2013 07:23:00 +0000

Growing up in a rough housing project on Chicago's South Side during the early 1960s, Alexis Martinez had to hide that she was transgender.

Back then, her name was Arthur, Alexis tells her daughter, Lesley Etherly Martinez, on a visit to StoryCorps in Chicago.

"When I came out to my mom that I was transgender, I think I was 13 or 14," Alexis says. "And she called the police.

Rhode Island Becomes 10th State To Allow Same-Sex Marriage

Eyder Peralta — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:12:00 +0000

Update at 7:08 p.m. ET. Governor Signs The Bill:

"We are making history," Gov. Lincoln Chafee said right before he signed a bill that legalizes same-sex marriage in Rhode Island. "We are living up to the ideal of our founders."

With that, the state became the 10th to allow marriages between same-sex couples.