Triumph in California!
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - In a landmark ruling the California state Supreme Court today struck down an existing state-wide ban on gay marriage making California the second state to offer full marriage benefits to same-sex couples. This ruling could have profound impact on marriage recognition across the country as it now opens the door for gay couples outside the state to marry.
This news has understandably excited and energized the GLBTQ community and its supporters across the nation. An announcement on the website SameLoveSameRights.com, a site devoted to traveling nationwide gay marriage summits and wedding expos, states that the company will be traveling to California this summer and touring the state with three same-sex wedding expos. Additional details are to be announced.
A video blog on http://www.ig.tv/ from Cindy and Marianne Puechl-Sproul, co-founders of Same Love, Same Rights and the popular online GLBTQ wedding resource RainbowWeddingNetwork.com, exudes excitement and urges supporters across the nation to take action to help defend this ruling. The couple, who met in 1997 and then later married (term used loosely as their marriage was not legally recognized), created the company in 1999 as the first wedding registry for same-sex couples which also boasts an online directory of over 6,000 gay-friendly wedding, travel and home-related companies across North America. “The company was born of our own experiences as a lesbian couple seeking to have a ceremony, free from awkwardness and discrimination,” states Cindy. “We got married and it didn’t stop there, we realized that with acceptance as the issue, other same-sex couples needed our help.”
The three GLBTQ Expos in California are scheduled for Sunday July 13th in San Francisco @ the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway... for Wednesday July 23rd at the Japanese Gardens at CSU in Long Beach... and plans are underway for an event in Los Angeles by the end of that month.
For more info: http://www.samelovesamerights.com/
This news has understandably excited and energized the GLBTQ community and its supporters across the nation. An announcement on the website SameLoveSameRights.com, a site devoted to traveling nationwide gay marriage summits and wedding expos, states that the company will be traveling to California this summer and touring the state with three same-sex wedding expos. Additional details are to be announced.
A video blog on http://www.ig.tv/ from Cindy and Marianne Puechl-Sproul, co-founders of Same Love, Same Rights and the popular online GLBTQ wedding resource RainbowWeddingNetwork.com, exudes excitement and urges supporters across the nation to take action to help defend this ruling. The couple, who met in 1997 and then later married (term used loosely as their marriage was not legally recognized), created the company in 1999 as the first wedding registry for same-sex couples which also boasts an online directory of over 6,000 gay-friendly wedding, travel and home-related companies across North America. “The company was born of our own experiences as a lesbian couple seeking to have a ceremony, free from awkwardness and discrimination,” states Cindy. “We got married and it didn’t stop there, we realized that with acceptance as the issue, other same-sex couples needed our help.”
The three GLBTQ Expos in California are scheduled for Sunday July 13th in San Francisco @ the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway... for Wednesday July 23rd at the Japanese Gardens at CSU in Long Beach... and plans are underway for an event in Los Angeles by the end of that month.
For more info: http://www.samelovesamerights.com/
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