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• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

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.

HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV

"I thk we, like so many queer people growg up, wonr if they’ll ever even e out, and if they'll ever fd love, and for some of , if gay marriage would ever be legal. 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. 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".

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

Carpenter is challengg New York’s “public acmodatn” laws that she and her attorneys say threaten f and jail time for Christian photographers who won’t photograph gay weddgs. Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v.