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…

Happy National Adoption Month!

LGBTQ Finance | 11.03

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…

Five Situations When It Pays to Get Married

LGBTQ Finance | 10.30

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…

Debunking the “Rich Gay” Myth

LGBTQ Finance | 10.27

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…

Practical Tips For Planning Your Wedding

LGBTQ Finance | 10.20

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…

Six Takeaways from Obergefell v. Hodges

LGBTQ Finance | 06.30

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…

Arguments Against Marriage

Fundamentals | 06.19

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.…

Why Marriage Matters

LGBTQ Finance | 06.16

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…

Five Situations When it Pays to Get Married

Insurance | 05.01

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…

How We Arrived at Today’s Important Supreme Court Case

LGBTQ Finance | 04.28

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,…

Four Takeaways from Alabama’s Marriage Equality Case

LGBTQ Finance | 02.10

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…

A Guide to Government Agencies and Your Federal Marriage Rights

LGBTQ Finance | 01.30

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…

Is it Time For Full Marriage Equality?

LGBTQ Finance | 01.20

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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