After s-long legal battle, gay uple's 1971 marriage officially regnized

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• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• WHO WERE THE FIRST GAY COUPLE HISTORY?ALLEGEDLY THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPL HISTORYBELDA MALLASASIME·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE STORY HISTORY·3 M READ·JUL 13, 2021--SHAREPHOTO BY SHIL NASH ON UNSPLASHIN 1964, WHILE EXVATG THE ARTERY OF THE PYRAMID OF KG UNAS, AN EGYPTOLOGIST NAMED AHMED MOSA DISVERED A TOMB AT SAQQARA EGYPT, THAT HAD THE SCRIPTNS OF TWO MEN LISTED AS “ROYAL NFIDANTS” THEIR JOT TOMB. THE SCRIPTN ALSO HAD THE NAME “KHNUMHOTEP” WRTEN ON THE RIGHT AND “NIANKHKHNUM” ON THE LEFT,THE NAM OF THE MEN SCRIBED ON THE TOMB ARE BELIEVED TO BE BOTH EMBEDD NAM TO THE CREATOR-GOD KHNUM THAT FORM A LGUISTIC REFERENCE TO THEIR LEVEL OF TIMACY. WH KHNUMHOTEP MEANG “KHNUM IS SATISFIED” AND NIANKHKHNUM MEANG “LIFE BELONGS TO KHNUM”.THE TOMB HAPPENED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WH THE NECROPOLIS WHERE HIEROGLYPHS DISPLAY TWO MEN POSNS THAT APPEAR TO BE SOME SORT OF TIMATE (HOLDG HANDS, EMBRACG, STANDG FACE TO FACE WH BOTH NOS TOUCHG, AND LAYG AGAST EACH OTHER). THOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN BAT ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ACTUALLY A UPLE, MANY SCHOLARS BELIEVE NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP TO BE THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPLE HISTORY.NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP WH THEIR OFFSPRG (PHOTO SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM
• FROM “PARTNER” TO “HBAND”: MEET ONE OF THE FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL N.L.
• WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
• HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB
• BOOK TELLS THE LOVE STORY BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
• GAY ARGENTE UPLE'S WEDDG PLANS DIVI AN ENTIRE NTENT
• MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St.

(The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said.

WHO WERE THE FIRST GAY COUPLE HISTORY?ALLEGEDLY THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPL HISTORYBELDA MALLASASIME·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE STORY HISTORY·3 M READ·JUL 13, 2021--SHAREPHOTO BY SHIL NASH ON UNSPLASHIN 1964, WHILE EXVATG THE ARTERY OF THE PYRAMID OF KG UNAS, AN EGYPTOLOGIST NAMED AHMED MOSA DISVERED A TOMB AT SAQQARA EGYPT, THAT HAD THE SCRIPTNS OF TWO MEN LISTED AS “ROYAL NFIDANTS” THEIR JOT TOMB. THE SCRIPTN ALSO HAD THE NAME “KHNUMHOTEP” WRTEN ON THE RIGHT AND “NIANKHKHNUM” ON THE LEFT,THE NAM OF THE MEN SCRIBED ON THE TOMB ARE BELIEVED TO BE BOTH EMBEDD NAM TO THE CREATOR-GOD KHNUM THAT FORM A LGUISTIC REFERENCE TO THEIR LEVEL OF TIMACY. WH KHNUMHOTEP MEANG “KHNUM IS SATISFIED” AND NIANKHKHNUM MEANG “LIFE BELONGS TO KHNUM”.THE TOMB HAPPENED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WH THE NECROPOLIS WHERE HIEROGLYPHS DISPLAY TWO MEN POSNS THAT APPEAR TO BE SOME SORT OF TIMATE (HOLDG HANDS, EMBRACG, STANDG FACE TO FACE WH BOTH NOS TOUCHG, AND LAYG AGAST EACH OTHER). THOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN BAT ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ACTUALLY A UPLE, MANY SCHOLARS BELIEVE NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP TO BE THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPLE HISTORY.NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP WH THEIR OFFSPRG (PHOTO SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA)KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM

Near the end of the episo, Roc says he's not yet fortable wh his uncle beg gay, but he's learng to be "fortable wh beg unfortable, " which is a big step for him. "Can't Help" is chock full of the sorts of easy gay jok that typified a lot of '90s edi featurg gay characters.

At one pot, Andrew sists that he didn't thk black people uld be gay, bee they weren't scend om "sissy" Europeans.

When Andrew tells him this is jt a phase, spurred by havg married an "ugly woman, " Rsell says that, no, he's been gay his whole life and jt lyg to himself. What ma the battle for gay rights so different was that anybody uld be gay, so, siarly, anybody uld be prejudiced.

FROM “PARTNER” TO “HBAND”: MEET ONE OF THE FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL N.L.

The characters don't make all of the way to full acceptance of gay rights by the end of the episo. " Roc posns the fight for gay rights as on a ntuum wh all other civil rights battl, and that was somethg few other elements of pop culture were alg wh at the time. Beg homophobic is simple when you don't know any gay people.

It's far more plited when your own brother or uncle is gay. This was the first and only tomb the necropolis where a same-sex uple was buried most of the history gettg lost translatn, Egyptologists have extrapolated om the evince their tomb that Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum are history’s first documented gay upl. 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.

WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E

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.

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".

HISTORY’S FIRST GAY COUPLETHEY LIVED, DIED AND WERE BURIED TOGETHER AS EARLY AS 2400 B.C EGYPTKAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·3 M READ·AUG 13, 2020--5SHARENIANKHKHUM AND KHNUMHOTEPSOURCE: PUBLIC DOMAWHEN EGYPTOLOGISTS DISVERED THE TOMB AT SAQQARA, EGYPT 1964, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TOMB THE NECROPOLIS WHERE A SAME-SEX UPLE WAS BURIED TOGETHER.WH MOST OF THE HISTORY GETTG LOST TRANSLATN, EGYPTOLOGISTS HAVE EXTRAPOLATED OM THE EVINCE THEIR TOMB THAT KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM ARE HISTORY’S FIRST DOCUMENTED GAY UPL. THE CLAIM OF A FIRST RERD SAME-SEX UPLE HAS MET NSIRABLE BATE ACROSS AMIANS.HIEROGLYPHS ADORNED ACROSS THE TOMB PICT THEM AS HOLDG HANDS, FACE TO FACE WH THEIR NOS TOUCHG, EMBRACG A WAY THAT PICTS A MARRIED UPLE.THE TOMB

"We jt wanted to make sure that the world saw the most posive si of beg a gay uple. AMSTERDAM (Rters) - Twenty years ago, Dutch uple Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker ma history when they tied the knot the world’s first legally-regnised same-sex weddg the were among four gay upl - three male and one female - to be married shortly after midnight by the mayor of Amsterdam on April 1, Thursday, they celebrated their 20th anniversari small groups or at home due to COVID-19 social distancg l that prevented large gathergs.

BOOK TELLS THE LOVE STORY BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

”All four gay marriag have passed the tt of time. But of urse we were aware was an historic moment, " 41-year-old Th, a notary assistant and gay rights mpaigner, told AFP ahead of the anniversary Friday of the world's first gay weddg. Sce then, nearly 15, 000 gay and lbian upl have wed the Netherlands -- about two percent of the total number of marriag registered between 2001 and 2010, based on figur om the Central Statistics Bure.

Acrdg to the Amsterdam-based COC, the world's olst homosexual advocy group, there are about a ln gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people the Netherlands out of a total populatn of 16.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

"It is not the Sodom and Gomorrah many people apparently expect to rult om the legalisatn of gay marriage".

Ten years after the uple's tone weddg, gay marriage is still illegal many untri. Gay sex is banned and punishable some stat, and rri the ath penalty Iran. "It is somewhat of an irony that bee is easier for homosexual people to e out of the closet and be open about their sexualy, they are also more visible and easier for homophob to target, " he said.

AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED

In 2009, a total of 428 homophobic cints, nearly a fifth volvg physil vlence, were reported around the untry -- an crease of 13 percent on 2008, acrdg to the latt available police figur.

GAY ARGENTE UPLE'S WEDDG PLANS DIVI AN ENTIRE NTENT

A recent jtice mistry study found that seven out of ten gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr people had enuntered physil or verbal vlence their liv. Nearly half of Dutch polled for a recent study said they found objectnable to see two gay men kissg public.

"As a homosexual person, the whole world ncerns self wh your private life, even though you are not to anythg weird or eaky or sry for the children.

The story of the first gay weddg Ameri is one that enpass the fight for LGBTQ rights, a se before the hight urt the land and a remarkable relatnship.

MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE

For upl of the same sex is documented  The Weddg Heard ’Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage.

Supreme Court led that gay upl have a fundamental right to marry. Enjoy an excerpt om The Weddg Heard ’Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage, by McConnell and Baker, as told to Gail Langer Karwoski.

He beme the darlg of the natnal media 1970, the year he was elected the first openly gay universy stunt body print.