Has the time e for gay marriage the UK? | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
• GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED AT MIDNIGHT ENGLAND AND WAL
• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• HAS THE TIME E FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE UK?
• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage. As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot. ) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012.

It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships. “I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative. Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours.

WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?

Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple. Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”. Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg.

But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag. A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED AT MIDNIGHT ENGLAND AND WAL

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Gay or same-sex marriage is the maral unn of two people of the same sex.

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

Support for gay marriage. Featherstone further sisted that was not a battle between gay rights and relig beliefs, argug:.

“I believe that if a uple love each other and want to m to a life together, they should have the optn of a civil marriage, irrpective of whether they are gay or straight,….We are not prrisg gay rights, or tramplg over tradn; we are allowg a space for the two to exist si by si.”. Among the public, there was a growg nsens that prohibg gay marriage was discrimatory and unnstutnal by nature. Campaigners noted how prev discrimatn towards homosexuals rulted acute psychologil trma among same-sex upl and their fai.

Campaigners for same sex marriage also noted how relig opposn to homosexual marriage was largely amed by the assumptn that the sole purpose of marriage is procreatn.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

Opposn to gay marriage. It is further argued that civil and domtic partnerships grant gay upl the same protectns and rights nferred by marriage whout challengg the classil notn of marriage. Harvey verbalised this relig standpot: “Throughout the history of the human race the stutn of marriage has been unrstood as the plete spirual and bodily munn of one man and one woman.” Such views are often supported by Bible vers nmng homosexualy.

HAS THE TIME E FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE UK?

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, scribed the proposal to legalise gay marriage as “one of the greatt polil power grabs history.” Lord Carey said: “The state do not ‘own’ the stutn of marriage. Gay marriage around the world. Gay marriage was officially legalised the USA 2015.

Many have legalised civil partnerships among same-sex upl, while others prerve outright bans on homosexualy. Asia is the only populated ntent whose every untry outlaws gay marriage. Male homosexual activy was illegal the UK until 1967.

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

In the aftermath of the Send World War, nvictns for homosexual offenc creased markedly, wh several high-profile figur beg prosecuted.

In 1954, the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra, head by Sir John Wolfenn, was set up by the Conservative ernment. The rultant Wolfenn Report published 1957 nclud that crimalisatn of homosexualy was an impgement on civil liberty and that homosexual acts between nsentg adults should not be an offence.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

It was not until a later that the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 crimalised homosexual activy between nsentg adults and set the age of homosexual nsent at 21, later rced to 18.

There was no statutory age of nsent for lbian sex until the Sexual Offenc Amendment Act 2000 which equalised the age of nsent for homosexual and heterosexual men and women to 16 England, Wal and Stland.

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

In Northern Ireland, the equalised age of nsent was rced to 16 (for both heterosexual and homosexual relatnships) 2008. So I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative; I support gay marriage bee I’m a Conservative.” – Former Prime Mister, David Cameron, a speech to the Conservative Party Conference, 2011.

Why should we ny to people who happen to be gay or lbian who wish to show that mment and share wh their fay, iends and everybody else?” – Former Liberal Democrat Equali Mister Lynne Featherstone,2012. And is cur about the law on homosexual marriage – is a ntradictn to speak of homosexual marriage.” – Pope Francis, 2020. Mark the date: Same sex upl sign up for first gay marriag.