Peter Lawrence, 47, and Don Gallagher, 54, had been together for 11 years, but managed only seven months in their civil partnership. With assets of £4m--largely accumulated from Lawrence's job as a £390,000-a-year JP Morgan analyst--Gallagher, an actor who has starred in the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, was awarded a £1.7m settlement. Lawrence has taken the case to the Court of Appeal as he doesn't believe their former London home should be included in the pot. But Gallagher's barrister argued that his client had taken on "the major domestic and homemaking role in the partnership", as he "helped create and maintain a lovely home [with] soft furnishings, planting on balconies, improvement of layout and fixtures, redecoration". When judgment is handed down later in the year, it will be a test case for gay men and women whose relationships predate civil-partnership law, notes Woelke. "The other thing with same-sex couples," he adds, "is that there's often a greater degree of struggle over content. I mean," he says, wryly, "in heterosexual divorces, you never have the shared wardrobe. With heterosexual couples, you might have bought the furniture and kitchen stuff, but he will have his CD collection, she will have her whatever. With same-sex couples, there's much more of a mix."
unfortunately the truly funny stuff usually is. Pro-choice groups have been urging boycotts of Domino's for decades without much success. Or much humor, for that matter...then again, now that things have gotten so surreal what with all the transvaginal probes and legally empowered embryos and sluts OD'ing on the Pill, maybe it's time to consider the possibilities. 
