Sentence examples similar to standing heterosexual from inspiring English sources
Andrew Haigh, the British director who made his name with frank looks at fleeting gay relationships in Greek Pete and Weekend, and then on HBO's Looking, has won much acclaim at the Berlin film festival for a sober take on a long-standing heterosexual marriage.
In addition, in those states that still recognize "common law marriage", a long-standing heterosexual partner might be able to claim the spouse's share of your estate, but it could mean a lot of lawyers' fees.
The new law gives gays and lesbians equal standing with heterosexuals in adopting children.
I can't be in the minds of others, but I simply cannot conceive that heterosexual couples standing at the altars of Canberra next month will feel that the special significance of what they are doing with and for each other is diminished because a gay couple is doing the same thing down the road.
But while such unions provide couples in Brazil with access to benefits like health insurance and the division of assets in cases of separation, the council's decision provides same-sex couples who marry with the same standing as heterosexuals, allowing them, for instance, to take each other's surnames and adopt children more easily.
The global gay rights movement was yesterday celebrating the passage of a bill in the Mexico City legislature legalising gay marriage, making the huge and overwhelmingly Catholic megalopolis the first territory anywhere in Latin America to put same-sex couples on the same standing as heterosexuals.
Freud pointed to a coldly clinical drawing of heterosexual intercourse among Leonardo's notes, which shows the lovers standing up, like mannequins.
