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"Breaking Bad: A Brief History on Gay Divorce\n1996\n\nSeptember 21\n\n President Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law, defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman and making same-sex divorce a seriously messy affair.\n\nCredit: Corbis Images\n2004\n\nSeptember 13\n\n A lesbian couple in Ontario become Canada's first same-sex divorc\u00E9es. Initially, the application hits snags. While same-sex marriage was legal, the federal Divorce Act hadn't caught up and still defined spouse as \"either of a man or a woman who are married to each other.\" A justice from the Ontario Superior Court rules that the definition of spouse is unconstitutional and the divorce goes through.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\n2005\n\nApril 4\n\n Four years after legalizing same-sex marriage, the Dutch government issues a report card on the institution. While the divorce rate for LGBT couples is on par with that for heteros, it seems that slightly more lesbians than gay men choose to split up.\n\nCredit: Corbis Images\n2006\n\nJune 26\n\n Two Spanish men, who'd been married eight months, become Spain's first same-sex couple to file for divorce. In seeking damages, one man claims that he gave up his modeling career and his dog-grooming business for love.\n\nCredit: Corbis Images\n2006\n\nJuly 20\n\n Road bump! Three years after the landmark Goodridge v. Department of Public Health case led to the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts, plaintiffs Julie and Hillary Goodridge call it quits. Their divorce is not finalized until 2009.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\n2008\n\nFebruary 25\n\n Although same-sex marriage is illegal in New York, State Supreme Court Justice Laura Drager agrees to let a lesbian couple who married in Canada file for divorce in the Empire State. In October, New York grants its first divorce to a same-sex couple married elsewhere in the United States.\n\nCredit: Corbis Images\n2008\n\nJuly 14\n\n Thomas Adkins and Wesley Nyberg\u2014one of the first gay couples to wed in California, in 2008\u2014separate and file for divorce 13 days after their nuptials. Adkins, 55, tells a San Diego newspaper, \"Do I regret getting married? No.\" Nyberg, 45, says, \"He's a good man. He's a good human.\"\n\nCredit: Corbis Images\n2009\n\nJune 22\n\n Martina Navratilova is sued by her ex for a figure estimated to be in the millions in an action that also includes a classic Mercedes Benz and two Land Rovers. The case was reportedly settled for $3 million. This wasn't the 18-time Grand Slam singles-title winner's first time at the rodeo: In 1991 she paid her lover of seven years an estimated $3.5 million to walk.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\n2009\n\nAugust 10\n\n The National Enquirer reports that Rosie O'Donnell has split from wife Kelli Carpenter. O'Donnell blogs about marital woes but then, through her publicist, denies reports of the split\u2014until, on her Sirius Satellite Radio show, a dog psychic gets her to admit that Carpenter actually moved out two years prior.\n\nCredit: Getty Images\n2010\n\nFebruary 10\n\n Texas hold 'em: Angelique Naylor and Sabina Daly, married in Massachusetts in 2004, are granted a divorce in Texas, until Attorney General Greg Abbott intervenes, arguing that his state can't sanction a divorce for a marriage it considers invalid. Eleven months and several appeals later, a state appellate court rules that he was outside his jurisdiction.\n\nCredit: Corbis Images\n2010\n\nApril 15\n\n Melissa Etheridge's split from her partner of nine years, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, becomes tabloid fodder. Etheridge requests that Michaels not receive a dime in alimony, leading the actress to post these lines of poetry on her blog: \"her broken promises / told to me by / headlines.\"\n\nCredit: Getty Images\n2011\n\nJune 15\n\n Eleven months after Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage, a lesbian couple, together for six years but married for only two months, files to become South America's first same-sex-divorce statistic.\n\nCredit: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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