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Lorie Franks, center left, and her partner of 18 years AnneMary Franks, pose with their daughters, from left: Julia, 11, Jax, 5, and Maggie, 13, after receiving their marriage license on the first day of same ...

A couple who obtained a marriage license and exchanged vows in Virginia before officials realized both were biological men will not face charges.

Guy Ritchie has turned to his showbiz pals Sting and Trudie Styler to seek comfort over his fractured marriage to Madonna.

Gay residents cheered Gov. David Paterson on Sunday as he joined the city's annual gay pride march a month after he directed state agencies to provide full marriage benefits to same-sex couples who were legally married elsewhere.

'What he did ... sends a message that leadership isn't about waiting. It's about finding the opportunity. It's about finding the way to move progress and civil rights forward,' said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city's most powerful openly gay elected official.

Caption: Chris Evert Super Saturday at the US Open Tennis Matches held at Flushing Meadow Park - Arrivals New York City, USA .... LATEST: Sports legends GREG NORMAN and CHRIS EVERT married in a lavish ceremony ...

The male moose mascot of a tiny North Dakota town has a mate, and she's the city's namesake.

Joe the Moose has long been the mascot on the sign leading into Anamoose, in north-central North Dakota. But officials of the town of about 260 decided to give him a mate, Ana, and held a mock wedding Saturday in celebration.

Maury Becker, a resident who acted as minister of the ceremony, told the guests he was joining Joe and Ana 'in an estate of continual turmoil,' and officially declared them 'miserable mates.'

A man who put his life up for auction on eBay found it wasn't worth quite as much as he thought when he settled for around A$100,000 less than his target price.

Revelers at San Francisco's gay pride parade are celebrating their newfound freedom to marry as the city's 38th annual march got under way with a matrimonial touch.

Nujood Ali, 10, at her parents' home in Sana, Yemen. In April, she demanded a divorce from her abusive 30-year-old husband.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Archdiocese of Indianapolis ordained 25 men from Southern and Central Indiana as permanent deacons of the church yesterday, becoming the last Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. to ...

Former "American Idol" Ruben Studdard has married Surata Zuri McCants at a church in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.

No trespassing as love match sealed Louise Hall Greg Norman and girlfriend Chris Evert enjoy lunch at Doyles Restaurant in Watsons Bay.

With no wedding ring on her finger and no husband in sight, Madonna and her three children - and Carlos Leon, 11-year-old daughter Lourdes's biological dad - visited Manhattan's Kabbalah Centre Friday night for ...

The denomination's General Assembly, meeting in San Jose, Calif., voted 54 percent to 46 percent Friday to drop the requirement that would-be ministers, deacons and elders live in "fidelity within the covenant ...

Move over Dykes on Bikes. Here come the brides _ and grooms. Given San Francisco's sizable role in initiating the lawsuits that led California's highest court to strike down the state's bans on same-sex marriage, the city's 38th annual gay pride festival and parade is likely to draw huge crowds this weekend, tourism officials say.

'It's really going to be a Pride like none other,' said Joe D'Alessandro, president of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. 'I have never seen so many rainbow flags in this city, along Market Street, on shops, on homes. It's really a situation where the people are celebrating and the city is in a very festive mood.'

Caption: Ellen DeGeneres 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Kodak Theatre - Press Room Los Angeles, California .... Talk show queen ELLEN DeGENERES will marry her actress girlfriend PORTIA DE ROSSI in a ...

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden kept baby Harlow under wraps yesterday as they ran errands in LA.

Former "American Idol" Ruben Studdard is getting ready for a weekend wedding in his home state of Alabama.

Caption: Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson Nelson Mandela birthday dinner held in Hyde Park - Arrivals London, England .... UMA THURMAN is to marry her longterm boyfriend ARPAD BUSSON.

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A hairdresser who offered online bidders a chance to be in her wedding didn't attract a bridesmaid, but a national soft-drink company will get some inexpensive advertising for sponsoring the event.

SPURNED WIFE: Tricia Walsh Smith's YouTube videos have become a YouTube hit. A British actress who found YouTube fame after posting monologues about her failed marriage to a Broadway theatre owner and producer ...

Actress Salma Hayek and Francois Henri Pinault attend a reception to benefit UNICEF hosted by Gucci during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 at The United Nations on February 6, 2008 in New York City.

A guest at Timbaland's wedding called the ceremony "heartfelt and sincere." DAILY ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS: Get the Latest in Fashion, Glamour, and Scandal! Singer/songwriter Keri Hilson has offered an insight into ...

Student body president Mohammed Abid was searching for a last-minute metaphor to grab attention at the Palo Alto High School graduation.

By Martin Roberts

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.

Parliament's environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans.

"This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity," said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project.

GLENN McGrath and his young children have joined mourners wearing pink at the church where he and Jane were married nine years ago to bid farewell to the cancer campaigner, who died on Sunday.

A couple with Alabama ties were married in a simple ceremony before a national television audience on NBC's Today Show.

Women and girls in prairie dresses entered a courthouse surrounded by dozens of law enforcement officers in this tiny ranching hamlet Wednesday as a grand jury opened its investigation into a polygamist sect accused of forcing underage girls into marriage and motherhood.

The main square in Eldorado was cordoned off with yellow police tape. A sheriff's department worker snapped photos of anyone who stood by or attempted to talk to sect members who arrived at the courthouse Wednesday and may be grand jury witnesses.

Mariah Carey's friends say her marriage is doomed to fail. Photo: Reuters Mariah Carey's marriage won't last more than six months, according to friends.

The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife.

Authorities say a man accused of shooting four people at a wedding, including the bride and groom, has been released from jail after posting bond.

While Ohio Democrats have selected their candidate for attorney general, Republicans continue to search for a name to put on the ballot.

A leading conservative evangelical on Tuesday said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had distorted the Bible and espouses a "fruitcake" approach to the U.S. Constitution.

You too can be in Kelly Gray's wedding. Who's that? Just a 23-year-old hairdresser auctioning off an opportunity to be one of her bridesmaids.

The NYPD invited some of its most vocal critics Monday to a community outreach program for rookie cops that was beefed up after the shooting death of an unarmed man on his wedding day.

More than 1,000 new recruits filled Harlem's famed Apollo Theater for the start of a four-day program, "Advancing Community Trust," that will focus on issues like diversity and the department's stop-and-frisk policy, which has been criticized for singling out minorities.

The panel discussion Monday included such NYPD critics as the Rev. Lester Williams, the Queens pastor who was to marry Sean Bell and his fiancee Nov. 26, 2006 but instead presided over the 23-year-old's funeral a week after the slaying.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is asking California members to join the effort to amend that state's constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman.

A letter sent to Mormon bishops and signed by church president Thomas S. Monson and his two top counselors calls on Mormons to donate 'means and time' to the ballot measure. A note on the letter dated June 20 says it should be read during church services on June 29, but the letter was published Saturday on several Web sites.

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officiated his first same-sex marriage Monday at City Hall.

By Belinda Goldsmith

CANBERRA (Reuters) - It seemed unbelievable when bids to buy a heartbroken man's life in Australia reached A$2.2 million (US$2.1 million) -- and it was, with the bemused seller aware his life was only worth a quarter of that amount.

Ian Usher, 44, announced in March he was auctioning his life on eBay with the package including his A$420,000 three-bedroom house in Perth, Western Australia, a trial for his job at a rug store, his car, motorbike, clothes and even friends.

A New York City artist has built a replica of the soon-to-open Trump Dubai hotel tower out of thousands of Lego pieces.

Nathan Sawaya's 10-foot version of the distinctive five-star hotel is expected to be unveiled Monday in Columbus Circle. The actual hotel on the island of Palm Jumeirah won't open until next year.

Sawaya is known for his life-size Lego sculptures, such as an 18,000-piece bumblebee that Ashlee Simpson's husband gave her as a wedding gift and a model of a rebuilt New Orleans made of 120,000 of the toy bricks.

Couples in long-distance relationships say the soaring price of gas is breaking their hearts as well as their wallets.

Now that wedding season is upon us and the invitations are rolling in, you're probably wondering how you can afford to get your betrothed friends something nice without racking up big credit-card bills or ...

The frogs were dressed in wedding capes and prayers were given after the ceremony.

Here comes the bride. Wait, here she comes again!

Identical twin sisters Francine and Maria Munafo have added their weddings to the list of special events they've shared by marrying in a double ceremony in suburban New York.

The 28-year-olds became engaged to their longtime boyfriends on Christmas Day 2006 and married them on Saturday at a waterfront catering hall in Westchester County.

They both wore white strapless dresses. But Maria's had a touch of magenta and Francine's had some green.

Tourists gaped at six stunning wedding dresses displayed at Ripley's Believe It or Not! in New York's Times Square.

A dirt path begins across the road from a bus-congested holy site on Israel's Sea of Galilee, winding up a hill covered with wild oat and thistle.

Iremember when a subgroup of the abstinence-only movement first came up with an escape clause called secondary virginity.

Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo has married fiancee Allison Patrick in a private ceremony Saturday.

Same-sex couples across California exchanged vows and wedding bands on the first weekend since the state began allowing gays and lesbians to legally marry.

The city of West Hollywood, a staunch advocate of marriage rights for gays and lesbians, hosted a daylong marriage marathon Saturday, when about 100 same-sex couples planned to wed in ceremonies officiated by council members and administrators.

Accompanied by camera-toting clusters of relatives and friends, couples traded vows under white trellises trimmed with red roses inside curtained cabanas in West Hollywood Park.

Indian villagers married two frogs to bring them rain. They believe that if they please the Gods of rain with this ceremony that they will get good monsoon rains.

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J.D. Greear persuaded his church to drop the word 'Baptist' from its name, sell its historic building in Durham, N.C., and move into a local high school.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have set a wedding date, and to hear the talk show host tell it, it's going to be a doozy.

DeGeneres, who won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for outstanding talk show on Friday night, told reporters backstage at the Kodak Theatre that she and de Rossi are planning their 'dream wedding.' While the day is on the calendar, DeGeneres didn't say when or where it would take place.

'Yes, we have set a wedding date,' said DeGeneres. 'How do I feel about it? I obviously feel like it's long overdue. I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous that we don't all have the same rights.'

PHILADELPHIA - Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross are getting married, just in time for the Fourth of July.

Photo Credit: AP Photo The Reverend Dr. Jane Spahr, center, a Presbyterian minister, performs a same-sex marriage for Sherrie Holmes, left, and Sara Taylor, right, at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, ...

Televangelist Juanita Bynum and husband Thomas W. Weeks ended their marriage in divorce court Friday, several months after an altercation in a hotel parking lot landed Weeks in jail on charges he choked and ...

Employees who refuse to perform gay wedding ceremonies at the San Diego County Clerk's Office are facing reassignment.

Tourists gaped at six stunning wedding dresses displayed at Ripley's Believe It or Not! in New York's Times Square.

The fashionable white frocks were fashioned entirely of toilet paper.

Six dresses were displayed at the Times Square 'odditorium' yesterday and three winning designers squared off for the top prize of $1,000.

The judges from Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Charmin and Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com crowned this year's winner, Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Illinois. She spent two weeks creating a sheath dress with a raised flower pattern from molded toilet paper.

The Harvey Fierstein-John Bucchino musical about one family's tribulations over its daughter's upcoming nuptials closes July 27 after playing 116 performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

Two young backpackers rationed peanut butter sandwiches and granola bars, growing hungrier as they wandered for six days in the dense vegetation of Denali National Park, they said Thursday.

Jun. 19 - The toilet paper brand, Charmin, awards a prize for the best wedding gown made of toilet paper.

Colin Farrell has sparked speculation he is married after he was spotted wearing a wedding ring.

Famed MGM Dancer Cyd Charisse Is Dead Cyd Charisse, who was known for her dancing in classic films with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Charges will be dropped against scores of protesters arrested during demonstrations over the acquittals of three police officers in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day, prosecutors said ...

George Michael is a most happy fellow these days: He's kicking off his first North American tour in 17 years and same-sex marriage has just been legalized in California.

When gay and lesbian couples started getting married in California this week, one set of voices was quiet among the choruses of "Here Come the Brides" - those of the conservative activists who put a same-sex ...

A divorcee who had a holiday romance in Goa with a man 25 years her younger has been left "penniless and terrified" after being conned out of more than 80,000. Patrina Churm is worried for her safety after ...

Little Britain star Matt Lucas and his partner have split 18 months after getting "married" in a civil partnership ceremony.

Military Health Fraud Case -- $99.9 Million At Stake North Carolina Burning & Twisting Firefighters are still working to extinguish a wildfire that's burned more than 41,000 acres in eastern North Carolina, but ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 17 -- It was a lovely day for some nuptials. Blue skies. Rose petals. News helicopters.

Bakers handed out creamy cupcakes to several hundred couples waiting patiently in line. A lone protester in a devil's mask waved a sign that read: 'Pervert Weddings Done Here.' One of the grooms stopped, looked Beelzebub up and down, and snapped, 'Nice costume.' The mayor of West Hollywood, Jeff Prang, called the day 'absolutely historic' and 'truly tectonic' and 'the culmination of millennia' of struggle.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - She said, "I do," and she said, "Absolutely." With those words, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, both dressed in ivory-colored suits, were pronounced "spouses for life" on the steps of the ...

Jim and Mary, who have been married for six years, have mostly happy days. They say that getting to this place in their marriage has taken hard work.

Pope Benedict XVI gave President Bush a rare peek on Friday of the Vatican Gardens, a spot where popes pray privately and only special guests are allowed to stroll.

"Your eminence, you're looking good," Bush told the pope as the two shared a warm greeting.

Normally, VIPS are received in the pope's library in the Apostolic Palace. That's where Bush had his first meeting with Benedict in June 2007.

But in a gesture of appreciation for the warm welcome Bush gave him in Washington in April, Benedict welcomed the president and first lady Laura Bush near St. John's Tower in the lush Vatican Gardens.

A cavalcade of vehicles with blacked-out windows whisked the couple along with close friends and family into the Villa Durazzo, a 17th-century palace overlooking the Mediterranean, for the exchange of vows.

Jessica Alba Honor'd with Arrival of Baby Girl On Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the actress and her hubby of three weeks, Cash Warren, welcomed their first child together, a daughter ...

A conservative Christian legal group on Thursday made a last-ditch effort to stop gay marriage from becoming legal in California next week, asking a midlevel appeals court to temporarily prohibit county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The Virginia-based Liberty Counsel filed a petition with the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco arguing that the wording of the California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriages allows the lower court to set the terms and schedule for implementing the decision.

A Superior Court judge has refused to hear the divorce case of a lesbian couple, but questioned whether the law that barred the women from ending their marriage unconstitutionally denied them a right enjoyed by ...

MARIAH Carey's friends and colleagues weren't invited to her impromptu wedding to Nick Cannon, but they can still send a gift.

The operation in the private clinic off the Champs-lyses involved one semicircular cut, 10 dissolving stitches and a discounted fee of $2,900. But for the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan ...

Final preparations are under way for Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin's wedding, with two hilltop venues believed to be part of the big day.

Caption: Tom Hanks Screening of of HBO's new mini series 'John Adams' at the National Constitution Center Philadelphia, USA - 11.03.08.... Hollywood actor TOM HANKS played a real life hero this week by halting ...

Three islanders from Lesbos told a court Tuesday that gay women insult the island's identity by calling themselves lesbians.

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" Salma Hayek and her businessman fiance Francois-Henri Pinault are planning to wed in St.

Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples are getting ready to wed next week in California, where a court recently overturned the ban on same sex marriage.

Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott are parents again. The "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum and McDermott welcomed their second child _ 6-pound, 8-ounce Stella Doreen McDermott _ at a Los Angeles hospital ...

MONTERREY, Mexico - Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday tomorrow with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his ...

A British woman who didn't know she was pregnant says she was calm when she delivered a baby boy while dressed in a bumblebee costume.

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon's nuptials at City Hall ignited the gay wedding spree that thrust San Francisco into the national spotlight in 2004.

The Northern Territory government is facing opposition demands to sack a police officer who sanctioned a marriage between his 13-year-old daughter and a 19-year-old man.

Jerry Hall let go of the dress she married Mick Jagger in 18 years ago and declared: "I hope someone else has more luck than I did." The model is selling 71 items from her vast wardrobe to raise money for a ...

Same-sex weddings could create hundreds of new jobs and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into California's economy, according to a new study released Monday.

Gay couples are projected to spend $684 million on flowers, cakes, hotels, photographers and other wedding services over the next three years&#0x2014;so long as voters don't put a halt to the same-sex marriage spree, according to a study by the Williams Institute at University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

During the three-year period, the researchers project that about half of the state's more than 100,000 same-sex couples will get married and another 68,000 out-of-state couples will travel to California to exchange vows. The nuptial rush is expected to create some 2,200 jobs.

Kenya returns to the polls on Wednesday under intense domestic and international scrutiny for five by-elections, in a key test for a fragile government coalition less than six months after deadly post-election ...

An independent review says the New York Police Department's firearms training should include exercises with the sound of gunfire, or the phrase "He's got a gun!" The findings come in the wake of the 50-shot ...

It began with an errant dog, and it's now culminated with the forced betrothal of 15 little girls, some of them as young as 3, as compensation in a case of tribal feuding in a remote part of Pakistan.

Chinese tourists are expected to pour into Taiwan for their wedding portraits. Taiwan's 1,300 wedding studios are seeking new customers as their local clients have tightened their belts when it comes to ...

AN Italian bishop has told a young paraplegic he cannot have a church wedding because he is impotent, local media has reported.

Paris Hilton's mother doesn't want her daughter to rush into marriage. Kathy Hilton thinks the "Simple Life" star should take her time to decide whether Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden is the man she wants ...

FAKE couple Mario and Steph have tied the knot in the Big Brother house but the ceremony almost didn't go ahead after the groom threatened to call it off.

Same-sex couples gain dozens of new rights, cougar hunts with dogs are expanded, and authorities will work to track gang activity statewide.

The chance for same sex couples to marry could soon draw as many tourists to California as the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz.

There could never be a debut novel more perfectly timed to enter the world than Jonathan Miles' "Dear American Airlines." The book is a novel-length complaint letter written by one angry American Airlines ...

Pen politics are in full swing in Minnesota. Last week's Republican state convention featured Gov.

Actress Selena Gomez arrives at Chevy Rocks The Future at the Buena Vista Lot at The Walt Disney Studios February 19, 2008 in Burbank, California.

Drew Snyder and William Ballentine had a commitment ceremony with all the trimmings four years ago, the closest they could get to a wedding at the time.

Now that California's highest court has held that two men may be legally married starting later this month, friends want to know when the Los Angeles couple plan to take their relationship to the next level.

The answer: Not any time soon.

The problem is a citizen referendum on the November ballot that would overturn the state Supreme Court's landmark decision that denying gay couples the right to wed was discriminatory. It means same-sex couples face the uncertainty of whether they would still be legally wed if the ballot measure were to pass.

Shania Twain needs time to mend her broken heart following her marriage breakdown.

Texas baker Suzanne Maxwell built her "Lovin' Oven Bakery" on wedding cakes, but in the past few years she's been delving into divorce cakes.

William Shatner will not be invited to his Star Trek co-star George Takei's wedding .

California officials say counties may begin issuing gender-neutral marriage licenses the minute after a state Supreme Court order legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect.

The Office of Vital Records advised all 58 California counties Thursday that they can begin issuing the licenses June 16 at 5:01 p.m. An earlier notice said clerks could make the new licenses available at the start of the business day June 17.

The licenses say 'Party A' and 'Party B' where bride and groom used to be.

But what about business? No? Perhaps it should. Sex and the City spawned a cottage industry that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Hollywood actress Charlize Theron has revealed that she has no plans of ever getting married to her long-term boyfriend Stuart Townsend.

In April, Sharon Naylor, author of more than 30 wedding planning books, said "I do" on a beautiful spring day with cocktails, a dessert buffet and family and friends.

Caption: Jennifer Love Hewitt . Step-Up Women's Network 2008 Inspiration awards luncheon held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Who's Tony Rezko? William Ayers? Few Americans know, but they probably will by Election Day.Rezko is a Chicago businessman, convicted of more than a dozen charges this week.

California officials have been asked to move up the date for same-sex couples to be legally married in San Francisco.

Dear Annie: My husband and I have three children. Our eldest, 'Bret,' decided to finish his last year of college closer to home and will graduate in December.

Comedian Adam Sandler has played a wedding singer, a waterboy, a firefighter pretending to be gay, and the devil's son.

In this May 15, 2008 file photo, Sharon Papo, second from left, and her partner Amber Weiss apply for an appointment for a marriage licence at the county clerks office as Amanda Lee, second from right, and her ...

Slideshow Actor Charlie Sheen arrives at the Evening with 'Two And A Half Men' at the Leonard Goldenson Theater on February 27, 2008 in North Hollywood, California.

Brides gather in New York's Times Sqaure to climb up a cake slice for a 25000 dollar prize.

The members of a polygamist sect raided by authorities two months ago have their children back, but with a criminal investigation looming, the sect's troubles may not be over.

Sir Michael Parkinson swapped anecdotes with the Queen about the recent royal wedding when he picked up his knighthood.

Relax, everybody. Despite its racy come-on, the new CBS drama "Swingtown" isn't pushing recreational drugs and mate swapping, any more than it endorses smoking on airplanes or drinking Harvey Wallbangers, which ...

A Christian legal organization has filed a lawsuit to stop Gov. David Paterson's directive telling state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed out-of-state. The Alliance Defense Fund says ...

Dati ... supported the ruling on Friday PARIS: France's justice minister has done a U-turn and ordered an appeal against a highly controversial marriage annulment granted to a Muslim because his bride lied ...

After making the nervous climb above peak-hour traffic, two British backpacker became the first official couple to hold their wedding ceremony on the summit of Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Greece's first gay weddings were held on Tuesday when two couples, abetted by a sympathetic local mayor, defied the threat of criminal charges and the wrath of the Orthodox church to tie the knot on a tiny ...

Patrons at Patrick's Pub and Grill drink their beer in Tennessee, but a walk to the restroom in the same building takes them across the state line to a dry county in Georgia.

Slideshow George Takei and Brad Altman, October 2003 Gay actor George Takei will wed his longtime partner in September, and has chosen his Star Trek co-star Walter Koenig as his best man.

Coldplay star Chris Martin has defended his decision to keep his marriage to actress Gwyneth Paltrow out of the public eye - insisting their relationship is of no concern to the outside world.

An initiative that would again outlaw gay marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot, the Secretary of State announced Monday.

A judge on Monday ordered the immediate return of more than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch, bringing an abrupt end to one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history.

Simon Fuller, creator of the American Idol TV series, has gotten married in California's Napa Valley, Idol executive Nigel Lythgoe says.

A wake was held for a man who was killed while operating a massive crane that collapsed in Manhattan as forensic investigators surveyed the wreckage for the cause of the accident.

About 200 relatives and friends of the 30-year-old crane operator, Donald Leo, gathered at the Hanley Funeral Home on Staten Island Sunday for his wake, including his fiancee, Janine Belcastro. They had planned to wed in late June.

'We were looking forward to going to the wedding,' said Adriana Lusterino in Monday editions of the Daily News. 'It's tragic.'

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an average 14-year-old girl who has a problem. My mom won't let me wear thong underwear, and it is the kind I want to wear.

The Saskatchewan marriage commissioner at the centre of a same-sex controversy says he's hoping he can appeal a decision by a provincial human rights tribunal.

Three-times-divorced Patsy Kensit believes she is probably at the right age to marry for the first time in her life.

Abdul-Rahman al-Nasser owns a gold store with case after case of glittering necklaces, earrings and bracelets.

When asked last week what he thought about same-sex marriage, Gov. David Paterson said, 'I think it's beautiful.

A commencement address should be uplifting and enlightening. Leave it to me to deliver one that was also inadvertently controversial because it touched upon a subject that some people don't feel comfortable ...