When Marcia Hams and Susan Shepherd cut into their wedding cake at city hall in Cambridge, Mass., on May 17, 2004, after becoming the first same-sex couple in the U.S. to complete a state-sanctioned ...

Very little attention has been given thus far to the several hidden punches in the California Supreme Court's gay marriage decision. The reaction to the decision, while decidedly widespread and ...

This is a guest post by Harville Hendrix, adapted from his foreword to Stan Tatkin’s book Wired for Love. Couplehood has been, from the dawn of human history, the primary social structure of our ...

Ten years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for nationwide marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges. The ruling sparked celebrations around the country. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news ...

In its landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court finally bestowed protection on interracial marriages. Relationships between black people and white people had always existed, but ...

Through most of Western civilization, marriage has been more a matter of money, power and survival than of delicate sentiments. In medieval Europe, everyone from the lord of the manor to the village ...

Twenty years ago this week, seven Massachusetts couples made history as the first same-sex partners in the nation to get legally married. Those marriages began on May 17, 2004, six months after the ...

In the wake of the Indian Supreme Court’s recent refusal to legalize gay marriage, Nitika Khaitan — a fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Safra Center for Ethics — hosted a study ...