A refugee lawyer, a transgender specialist, and six other people sit in a circle in an empty classroom on the second floor of Tel Aviv?s Gay Center. They are here for the inauguration of Israel?s first-ever LGBT legal clinic. The evening?s keynote speaker is Frederick Hertz, an American legal expert who specializes in gay marriage. He describes a recent case he handled, in which a gay couple, one of them transgender, got married in Las Vegas as a man and a woman. Then they moved to California and wanted their respective healthcare benefits. ?So the question,? Hertz says, ?was how to register that same-sex couple when they had been married as an opposite-sex couple.?
The crowd stares blankly, some playing with their telephones. One attendee, wearing skinny jeans and Converse sneakers, breaks the collective yawn by quoting a New Yorker cartoon, republished in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, to convey how Israelis feel about the American debate over gay marriage: ?Gays and lesbians getting married ? haven?t they suffered enough??
Read the whole story at The Tower
"; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/24/for-israeli-gays-its-not-_n_2933753.html
norfolk island michael brockers lisa marie presley florida panthers tannehill joel ward mock draft
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.