After waiting for years for the chance to legally wed, gay couples walked down church aisles and exchanged vows in civil ceremonies in Washington on the first day same-sex marriage was allowed in the US capital. Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend, who have been a couple for 12 years, became one of the first same-sex couples to be wed in ...

Three gay couples married Tuesday amid heavy security in a group ceremony in Washington on the first day that same-sex marriages were celebrated in the US capital. With police cars lining the streets outside the Human Rights Campaign building and a helicopter hovering overhead, Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend became the first same-sex couple to be wed in Washington, just ...

For gay US businessman Brad Fister, experiencing the joy of fatherhood meant flying half way around the world to India where he first held his baby daughter, born to a woman who had signed away any right to her child. Commercial surrogacy is a booming industry in India, and in recent years the ranks of childless foreign couples have been ...