"Our wedding certificate," said Lewis, holding it up. "Most people put this in a drawer somewhere and never think about it. But for us this is a treasure." Over the past two decades the couple have continued to be leaders in the Marriage Equality movement,...
he circumvented the Chinese Exclusion Act by way of the Philippines, buying a birth certificate with the name “Ricardo Torres” for $1,200. His mother, Soo Hoo Tui-Wing (Americanized into Connie Fong-Torres) came through Angel Island. Following an arranged marriag...
As a side note, to my horror, not only did the ceremony include the reading about "the woman should be submissive to the husband, as the husband is submissive to God", but the priest's homily started with, "Marriage is a cross". He actually said that he thinks God wants you to hav...
"Nor do I remember seeing Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) at any of the festivities attending the marriage of the present Emperor William, who was then merely the son of the crown prince. One reason for his absence, perhaps, was his reluctance to take part in the Fackeltanz, a most curio...
When Taylor—now, 74 years old, and in failing health—presented those documents along with a certificate of marriage to her late wife Jean Mixner, the Idaho Veterans Cemetery refused to reserve a joint-spot for the two women’s ashes, something the cemetery allows heterosexual couples to do....