France Gay Marriage

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  In French First, Same-Sex Protestant Pastors Get Married

  France's Protestant church has celebrated its first wedding of same-sex pastors, authorities said Monday, six years after gay clergy first won the right to marry.

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  Anti-Gay Marriage Protesters Return To French Streets

  Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to demonstrate against gay marriage, calling for candidates in France's presidential election to support "traditional family values".

• Nicolas Sarkozy Says France's Gay Marriage Law Should be Scrapped

  Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who has embarked on a political comeback, on Saturday said France's gay marriage law should be scrapped, in his strongest comment yet on the controversial issue.

• French Court Extends Adoption Rights to Lesbians

  France's highest court has ruled that married lesbians are allowed to adopt their partner's child born through in vitro fertilization or other medically assisted reproduction.

• Couples ready to tie the knot in UK's first gay marriages

  When the clock strikes midnight on Friday, gay and lesbian couples across England and Wales will begin exchanging vows as an historic law legalising same-sex marriage finally comes into force.

• Dalai Lama says no problem with gay marriage

  The celibate Dalai Lama has thrown his considerable moral weight behind gay marriage, condemning homophobia and saying sex was fine as long as it was consensual.

• Paris marks Gay Pride, one month after first same-sex marriage

  Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of Paris to mark the city's Gay Pride on Saturday, exactly one month to the day since France celebrated its first gay marriage.

• British embassy flies the flag for gay pride in France

  Britain's embassy building in Paris will be adorned by a rainbow flag this weekend in an official show of support for gay pride marches scheduled to take place in the French capital and London.

• Vincent and Bruno, the first gay couple in France, get married

  Not even France's biggest street protests in years - or a smoke bomb lobbed toward the city hall - could stop Vincent and Bruno getting married.

• France's first gay marriage takes place

  Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau said "I do" on Wednesday in France's first official gay marriage, as hundreds of guests and journalists looked on in the highly emotional ceremony.

• France to hold first gay marriage after last-ditch protest

  France on Wednesday celebrates its first gay marriage in the southern city of Montpellier after months of bitter debate and opposition that saw tens of thousands take to the streets.

• French gay marriage opponents stage big Paris march

  Several hundred thousand opponents of same-sex marriage marched in central Paris on Sunday against a reform the unpopular French government passed last month at the price of deepening political polarisation.

• Gay marriage vote set to deliver Britains' Prime Minister David Cameron more problems

  British Prime Minister David Cameron faces further dissent from within the ranks of his Conservative Party as a bill to legalise gay marriage returns to Parliament Monday.

• Gay marriage across the world

  France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law following months of bitter political debate and protests. The law also legalises gay adoption.

• French president signs gay marriage bill into law

  France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law following months of bitter political debate.