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Out Now, a global gay marketing agency, stresses the importance of staff training to leading travel industry brands. The agency has created new a online training, accreditation and marketing system called GayComfort™.

Ian Johnson, CEO of Out Now explains that gay travelers often experience travel differently than other consumers.

Although lesbian and gay citizens of New York cannot marry, those who marry elsewhere in the world will be supported by the state.

According to The New York Times:

"...the appellate court in Rochester held that a gay couple’s 2004 marriage in Canada must be respected under the state’s longstanding marriage recognition rule..."

With results that mirror those found in U.S. and Canadian studies, new research from the Netherlands proves parenting by two mothers is just as good - if not slightly advantageous - for children when compared to heterosexual families with two parents.

Liberal Member of Parliament Scott Brison, and his partner Maxime St. Pierre are about to be married in Nova Scotia. Brison's wedding comes just weeks after George Smitherman, Ontario's first openly gay cabinet minister, wed his partner Christopher Peloso.

A Vancouver man has been denied the estate of his deceased long-time partner.

Reza Chowdhury shared a home with Peter Argenti during their 14-year relationship. Argenti died at the age of 66, after complications from a stroke and cancer.

Canada's Anglicans voted against allowing their churches to bless gay couples.

Most of the world's Anglicans are theological conservatives who believe gay relationships violate Scripture. More liberal Anglicans emphasize social justice teachings in the Bible, leading them to support full acceptance of same-sex couples.

Parenting by two mothers is just as good -- if not slightly advantageous -- for children when compared to heterosexual families, a Canadian Justice Department study has concluded.

The most outstanding outcome that can be drawn from studies is that the vast majority of children living with two moms and children living with a mother and father have the same levels and qualities of social competence.