Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black are engaged

Tom first told the world about his relationship with Dustin when he came out in December 2013, saying he had begun a relationship with another guy.

‘In spring this year my life changed massively when I met someone, and they make me feel so happy, so safe and everything just feels great,’ he said. ‘That someone is a guy.’

And last year in December, Daley described it as ‘love at first sight’.

‘I’d never felt like anything like it before. We were at a party and I hadn’t even spoken to him all night. I didn’t know what to do or if he was gay at first,’ he told Jonathan Ross.

‘I’d never felt the feeling of love, it happened so quickly, I was completely overwhelmed by it to the point I can’t get him out of my head all the time. I’ve never had it before where I love someone and they love me just as much.’

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Transgender Teen Left 'Speechless' After Mom's Big Surprise

After months of waiting, a transgender teen’s request to legally change her name was finally approved. To celebrate the big moment, her mom organized a special surprise on Saturday.

The announcement left 16-year-old Gabrielle Diana Gladu utterly “speechless.”

In the video above, watch as Gabrielle’s mom, Rose Gladu, unveils a cake emblazoned with a special message.

“It took me a moment to process what it said on the cake,” Gabrielle, who lives in Ontario, told BuzzFeed News. “It said, ‘Congratulations, you are now Gabrielle!‘”

Rose says she wasn’t expecting the teen’s emotional reaction.

“I came up the with idea of the cake as a vehicle to celebrate her name change while having an informal family dinner with those that support, love and care for her,” Rose told Buzzfeed. “I was not expecting her to get so emotional that she became speechless. My daughter is never speechless. I knew at that moment my child came back to me. She was on her way to who she had been from birth.”

For the past year, Gabrielle has been documenting her transition on her YouTube channel.  

In an August video, Gabrielle shared a letter to her younger self that urged her to “take chances” and be courageous. She also encouraged herself to come out to her parents sooner rather than later.

“At first, mom’s not going to take it very well. She’s going to be confused and she’s going to be scared. But I promise, in time, she will come around and she’ll be one of your best supporters ever,” the teen says to the camera.

 

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Ben Carson blames same-sex marriage for ‘dramatic fall of the Roman Empire’

US presidential candidate Ben Carson has blamed gay marriage for the ‘dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.’

The Republican made the comments in his 2012 book America the Beautiful, BuzzFeed News first reported.

‘As a Bible-believing Christian, you might imagine that I would not be a proponent of gay marriage,’ he wrote.

‘I believe God loves homosexuals as much as he loves everyone, but if we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.’

The former neurosurgeon added: ‘I don’t believe this to be a political view, but rather a logical and reasoned view with long-term benefits to family structure and the propagation of humankind.’

Carson, who is currently second in most polls, has also blamed political correctness, sports and entertainment for the empire’s decline.

Historians, other the hand, say Christianity contributed its demise.

‘As the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear without surprise or scandal that the introduction, or at least the abuse of Christianity, had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire,’ the preeminent classical historian Edward Gibbons wrote in his seminal work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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Emails: Hillary Clinton fumed about gender-neutral passport forms

Hillary Clinton fumed when the State Department replaced ‘mother and father’ with the gender-neutral ‘parent one and two’ on passport applications without her knowledge, an email released on Wednesday (30 September) reveals.

The former secretary of state sent an strongly worded to her top aides in 2011 demanding to know who had made the decision, which she said she would not defend in Congress.

‘I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father,’ she wrote.

‘We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.’

The State Department announced the change in late 2010 ‘in recognition of different types of families,’ which was hailed as a victory by LGBTI rights groups.

But the day after the email, Clinton issued an order that the department retain ‘mother’ and ‘father.’

Read the full email below:

Who made the decision that State will not use the terms “mother and father” and instead substitute “parent one and two”? I’m not defending that decision, which I disagree w and knew nothing about, in front of this Congress. I could live w letting people in nontraditional families choose another descriptor so long as we retained the presumption of mother and father. We need to address this today or we will be facing a huge Fox-generated media storm led by Palin et al.

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