binformed bheard bheadlines letters bnews 207 - 03 July 2008 bheadlines What do you think of the use of pornography in the Victorian AIDS Council's health campaign? It's an effective way to get the message across. Yes, it's shocking, but isn't that the point? It titillates, rather than educates. It does more harm than good to the gay community.

Home bheadlines Gay couples divorcing Gay couples divorcing Wednesday, 23 April 2008 Gay couples had to struggle mightily to win the right to marry or form civil unions. Now some are finding that breaking up is hard to do too. In Rhode Island (USA), for example, the state's top court ruled in December that gays married in neighboring Massachusetts can't get divorced in Rhode Island because lawmakers have never defined marriage as anything but a union between a man and woman. In Missouri, a judge is deciding whether a lesbian married in Massachusetts can get an annulment. Over the past four years, Massachusetts has been the only state where gay marriage is legal, while nine other states allow gay couples to enter into civil unions or domestic partnerships that offer many of the rights and privileges of marriage. The vast majority of these unions require court action to dissolve. Gay couples who still live in the state where they got hitched can split up with little difficulty; the laws in those states include divorce or dissolution procedures for same-sex couples. But gay couples that have moved to another state are running into trouble.

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