marriage equality Archives - Brian Thompson Financial

Three Tips to Keep Your Relationship Healthy and Wealthy

When I started thinking about my blog and my business, I knew I wanted to serve the GLBTQ community, specifically gay and lesbian couples. Marriage equality was creating exciting, financial…

LGBTQ Finance | 11.03

Happy National Adoption Month!

For the past 20 years, November has been recognized as National Adoption Month. The month is used to promote awareness of the need for adoptive families for children in foster…

LGBTQ Finance | 10.30

Five Situations When It Pays to Get Married

In all of this talk about inequality and discrimination, I wanted to highlight how marriage equality has recently helped level the playing field. The right to marry the person you…

LGBTQ Finance | 10.27

Debunking the “Rich Gay” Myth

Over the weekend, a friend tweeted me about an interesting website called Gay Money: The Truth About Lesbian and Gay Economics. It purports to summarize “all the research on lesbian…

LGBTQ Finance | 10.20

Practical Tips For Planning Your Wedding

Ben and I had friends over for dinner on Saturday, and one of the topics of conversation during the evening was their upcoming wedding. They have been together for six…

LGBTQ Finance | 06.30

Six Takeaways from Obergefell v. Hodges

As I was brushing my teeth last Friday morning, Ben charged into the bathroom waving his phone at me. He was singing, laughing, and doing the twist (his version of…

Fundamentals | 06.19

Arguments Against Marriage

Marriage isn’t for everyone. A friend told me recently that he wants his life “to be a frustration of capitalism,” and he believes that marriage is foundation of that capitalism.…

LGBTQ Finance | 06.16

Why Marriage Matters

Can you feel the excitement? The momentum for marriage equality is stronger than ever thanks to recent wins in Ireland and Mexico. The United States Supreme Court should deliver its…

Insurance | 05.01

Five Situations When it Pays to Get Married

The oral arguments this week in Obergefell v. Hodges caused me to reflect on the importance of marriage equality. As the lawyers for the plaintiffs argued, the right to marry…

LGBTQ Finance | 04.28

How We Arrived at Today’s Important Supreme Court Case

Big day today for marriage equality. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the four consolidated cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Sixth Circuit. Right now,…

LGBTQ Finance | 02.10

Four Takeaways from Alabama’s Marriage Equality Case

More exciting marriage equality news out of the Supreme Court yesterday. The Court denied Alabama’s request to stay same-sex marriages that were to begin on Monday due to the January…

LGBTQ Finance | 01.30

A Guide to Government Agencies and Your Federal Marriage Rights

With all of the recent buzz around gay marriage and the prospect of full marriage equality this year, I wanted to repost my guide to federal marriage rights to highlight…

LGBTQ Finance | 01.20

Is it Time For Full Marriage Equality?

Huge news out of the Supreme Court on Friday. It has agreed to take on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans. And with its decision, the Court could establish full…

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