Today news
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in Queens, a borough of New York City, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan. The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He bought the Miss Universe brand of beauty pageants in 1996, and sold it in 2015. He produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television series, from 2003 to 2015. As of 2020, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $2.1 billion.[
The same in other media
Hong Kong city Hong Kong Hong Kong city Hong Kong

Hong Kong court rejects bid to recognise overseas same-sex marriage

Reading now: 516
www.gaytimes.co.uk

A bid by LGBTQ+ activist Jimmy Sham for Hong Kong to recognise overseas same-sex marriages has been denied in court. Sham married his partner in 2013 and has advocated for overseas same-sex marriages to be recognised in Hong Kong for the last five years.

On 24 August, the region’s Court of Appeal declared Hong Kong will only recognise heterosexual marriages. The judgement stated marriage is “a voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.” It continued: “The drafters of the Basic Law must have only used the term ‘marriage’ in Basic Law 37 in the traditional sense of being a union between a heterosexual couple.

Any suggestion otherwise is divorced from reality.” Sham is one of multiple activists in jail awaiting prosecution due to a new national security law.

His lawyer, Hector Pun, claimed that the exclusion of same-sex marriages violated equal rights. Pun referred to article 37 of the Basic Law, which stated: “The freedom of marriage of Hong Kong residents and their right to raise a family freely shall be protected by law.” He stressed the use of ‘residents’ instead of men and women did not exclude same-sex people from the institution of marriage.

Read more on gaytimes.co.uk
The website meaws.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA