| 单词 | gay marriage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgay marriage gay marriage n. a (long-term) domestic partnership between two people of the same sex; (in later use) esp. a formal union between same-sex partners, as legally recognized in some jurisdictions or societies; (also) the action of entering into such a relationship; the practice or condition of same-sex marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > other types Westminster wedding1660 customary marriage1871 hierogamy1882 companionate1924 companionate marriage1925 customary union1927 plaçage1937 gay marriage1957 open marriage1972 covenant marriage1990 1957 Mattachine Newslet. (Denver) Nov. 7 The legalized adoption of children by two men or two women who have entered into a ‘gay’ marriage has been advocated by Donald Webster Cory. 1971 W. D. Oberholtzer Is Gay Good? Introd. 41 Also, current research has not comprehensively tapped the world of the gay marriage, nor has it determined whether the male homosexual goes through stages, e.g., promiscuous while young but nonpromiscuous when older or when married. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 May c1 Gays seized the phrase as a legalization of gay marriages—and Dixon's voters, many of them representing church groups, were outraged. 1990 Daily Tel. 19 Apr. 12/8 Gay marriages for 648 Danes... Under the law, homosexual couples enjoy almost all the rights of a heterosexual marriage, except adoption. 1995 Guardian 14 Feb. ii. 18/1 In The Marriage of Likeness Boswell takes the historical case for gay marriage one stage further. 2001 Times 27 Feb. i. 1/5 One plan under consideration is to give away the first 100 ‘gay marriage’ licences free to publicise the scheme which brings London into line with San Francisco, Amsterdam and Paris. < as lemmas |
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