Civil partnerships could be expanded to included heterosexual couples under government plans revealed last night, after culture secretary Maria Miller...

MPs and people watching in the gallery of New Zealand's parliament broke into spontaneous song on Wednesday, following the passage of historic gay mar...

A gay marriage bill has been passed by the French senate, after more than a week of intense and sometimes acrimonious debate. The bill opening marr...

David Cameron has rejected calls for civil partnerships to be opened up to heterosexual couples following Tuesday's historic vote in which MPs overwhe...

On Tuesday more Tory MPs voted against gay marriage than in favour, leaving a question mark over how successful David Cameron's modernisation project ...

Gay MPs celebrated victory on Tuesday evening in Westminster after the Commons voted convincingly 400 to 175 to endorse same-sex marriage. Many MPs...

David Cameron successfully saw his gay marriage bill pass its first hurdle in the Commons on Tuesday, but most of his MPs failed to endorse the move. ...

MPs have voted by 400 to 175 in favour of allowing gay marriage, however the Commons debate exposed the deep division within the Conservative Party on...

Conservative MP Edward Leigh attacked plans to allow gay people to marry on Tuesday fearing the "merciless prism of equality", much to the confusion o...

The depth of Conservative divisions over gay marriage are to be laid bare on Tuesday when David Cameron faces being deserted by more than half of his ...

On Tuesday evening MPs will vote to approve, or disapprove, of same-sex marriage. It is a historic step and many find it remarkable that the measure w...

A bill to legalise gay marriage was published by the government today, amid deep splits in the Conservative Party on the issue. The legislation is ...

On Monday 35 Conservative MPs put their name to a letter urging David Cameron to drop plans to introduce gay marriage, as it was not included in the p...

Culture secretary Maria Miller has said Tory backbench concerns that religious groups will be forced to conduct gay marriage are "completely unfounded...

Tory MP David Davies has attempted to refute accusations that he is homophobic, by posting a video showing him punching a gay man in the face. On S...

David Cameron has confronted Tory opponents of gay marriage head on by coming out in favour of gay weddings in churches. The prime minister said on...

On Tuesday Nick Clegg retracted an accusation that opponents of gay marriage were "bigots" (which no one noticed at all), today his cabinet colleague ...

With the presidential election coming up in the United States later this year, there are a lot of discussions about the two main parties and what they stand for. Or at least there should be - sometimes it seems as though elections are more like popularity contests than serious decisions made based on policies.

A Russian court has upheld a ban on gay pride parades taking place in Moscow for the next 100 years. Nikolai Alexeyev, the founder of the Russian c...

The Catholic Church in Scotland has branded gay marriage a "dangerous social experiment" and dismissed homosexual relationships as nothing more than "...