Same Sex Couples

Centre informs SC live-in partners, same-sex couples cannot be allowed to avail services under surrogacy law

The Centre's response came on various pleas challenging the vires of the Surrogacy Act, 2021 and the Assisted Reproductive Technology Act, 2021

'I Do': Will India become the next country to approve of same-sex marriages?

The Supreme Court of India will today hear a batch of pleas seeking legal recognition of same sex marriages. This comes a day after the government termed such requests as ‘mere urban elitist views for social acceptance’. We take a look at how other nations have approved such unions

Italian government tells Milan to stop registering same-sex couples' children

Italy legalised same-sex civil unions in 2016, overriding opposition from Catholic and conservative groups, yet it fell short of giving them adoption rights, fearing that it would encourage surrogate pregnancies, which remain illegal

Church of England backs blessings for same-sex couples

They also recognised "the failure of the Church to be welcoming" to LGBTQ people, following an unprecedented apology last month by bishops for the "hostile and homophobic response" they have sometimes faced

What are Tokyo’s same-sex partnership certificates? How will they benefit couples?

A same-sex partnership certificate allows couples to be treated as married when it comes to services like housing, medical and welfare. The document can be used as proof of their relationship to avail of other public and private services

Delhi HC seeks Centre's response on pleas seeking marriage equality for same-sex couples

A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Asha Menon issued notices to the authorities and posted the matter for further hearing on 8 January

Watch: Spain, the eldorado of infertility treatment

Thousands of husbands and wives, same-sex couples and single women are turning to fertility clinics in Spain for infertility treatment

In landmark case, Italy court grants child of same-sex couple two 'legal mothers'

An Italian appeals court has upheld the right of a lesbian woman to adopt her partner's biological child, a gay rights group has said, in a landmark case for the Catholic country as it considers granting rights to same-sex couples.

Born This Way: Delhi's first LGBT flash mob held at CP. Watch it here

Delhi had its first ever LGBT flash mob and it came with good music and a strong message and got positive reactions from the audience.

Same-sex couples have right to marry anywhere, says US Supreme Court; Obama backs move

The Supreme Court declared on Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.