England, Wal set for gay marriag 2014 | CNN

Contents:

• QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
• WHY THE QUEEN BELIEVED GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED
• 5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY
• GAY ROYAL WEDDG! QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CO IVAR WILL MARRY PARTNER — AND HIS EX-WIFE WILL GIVE HIM AWAY
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• QUEEN ELIZABETH ON GAY MARRIAGE: "IT'S WONRFUL"
• FALLY LEGAL: QUEEN GIV GAY MARRIAGE THE ROYAL ASSENT
• IT’S OFFICIAL: QUEEN ELIZABETH II SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL INTO LAW ENGLAND AND WAL
• THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY
• THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’S GAY GOT MARRIED. NO ONE OM THE ROYAL FAY ATTEND.
• ENGLAND, WAL SET FOR GAY MARRIAG 2014

QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED

By the time she died, the landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights looked dramatilly different — at least the Uned Kgdom — part bee she approved of many pro-LGBTQ measur, such as same-sex marriage. ” The Brish ernment was g the 1885 Crimal Law Amendment Act — which was ed to send playwright and poet Osr Wil to prison 1895 — to arrt and prosecute queer people, particularly men, for same-sex sexual years of gay activism, Parliament passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967, which partially crimalized same-sex sexual relatns.

WHY THE QUEEN BELIEVED GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED

Nearly 40 years later, passed the Sexual Offenc Act of 2003, which repealed the 1885 measure and crimalized gay sex pletely.

5 GAY BRISH KGS AND QUEENS OM HISTORY

By the same token, he add, she shouldn’t be held rponsible for the passage of Sectn 28, a 1988 law that she gave her assent to that barred schools om “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship.

”Surdy also poted to some recent reportg that the queen has exprsed support for LGBTQ people behd closed Elizabeth II durg a vis to HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, ahead of the ship's main ployment, on May 22, Parsons / PA/AP fileCarl At-Behan, the first openly gay lord mayor of Manchter, met the monarch 2021, he told the BBC after her ath. He said the queen requted an LGBTQ choir to perform at an event to mark the 600th anniversary of the royal charter to tablish Manchter was discharged om the Royal Air Force 1997 bee he was gay, and he told the BBC that he and the queen talked about how far the untry had e.

“I feel she genuely red about our muny, ” he told the people have also poted to her 2013 pardon of Alan Turg, a World War II breaker often referred to as the “father of puter science” who was nvicted of “homosexual offens” unr the 1885 law. The Queen, left, is said to believe marriage should be between a man and a woman, while Prime Mister David Cameron, right, said he thought was 'right' gay people should be allowed to marryThe Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which is eply opposed to same-sex marriage on the grounds that ‘marriage’ should be a bond between a man and a the time of the bate, David Cameron said: ‘I am a strong believer marriage.

GAY ROYAL WEDDG! QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CO IVAR WILL MARRY PARTNER — AND HIS EX-WIFE WILL GIVE HIM AWAY

It helps people m to each other and I thk is right that gay people should be able to get married too. Centuri before homosexualy was ma legal between nsentg adults 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak s name’ was viewed as a s England, particularly by the church, and technilly punishable by ath.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

It is not surprisg that many gay and bisexual monarchs kept their love liv wh members of the same sex a closely guard secret.

Known as ‘Ruf’ due to his ddy plexn and red hair, the third son of William the Conqueror beme Kg of England 1087 and is assumed to have been gay or bisexual. The fourth son of Henry II, he is also believed to have been homosexual spe marryg Berengaria of Navarre. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, to Queen Elizabeth, will wed Jam Coyle at a private chapel on his untry tate Devon this summer, markg the royal fay’s first-ever gay marriage.

Then they met Jam and one particular mate said, ‘If I was gay, I’d certaly go for him. Openg up about his past, Ivar told the outlet that while he was hont about his sexualy wh his wife before they were married, he said that growg up, “I uld never tell my parents I was gay.

QUEEN ELIZABETH ON GAY MARRIAGE: "IT'S WONRFUL"

“Where I grew up, gay men were lled poofs, queers, everythg rogatory unr the sun, ” he told the Daily Mail, addg that even now “havg a bloke around is unual.

FALLY LEGAL: QUEEN GIV GAY MARRIAGE THE ROYAL ASSENT

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.

Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours.

IT’S OFFICIAL: QUEEN ELIZABETH II SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL INTO LAW ENGLAND AND WAL

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. Jt when we didn’t thk she uld get any more amazg, Queen Elizabeth II lled gay marriage England “wonrful.

Durg an terview over the weekend, Fry explaed how the 88-year-old monarch exprsed her approval of gay marriage July 2013 when signg the Marriage Act, which granted same-sex upl the right to legally marry England. The Queen mt rema polilly ntral and has never spoken publicly about gay marriage, but acrdg to sourc who Fry scrib as “well-found, ” her royal majty is all for marriage equaly. “When the Queen signed the Royal Assent for the equal marriag act, allowg gay people to marry for the first time, she put down and said ‘Well, who’d have thought 62 years ago when I me to the throne, I’d be signg somethg like this?

THE QUEEN HAS TURNED HER BACK ON THE GAY MUNY

In pictur: UK's first gay weddgs Show all 16A poll at the start of this year found that more lay Anglins now support same sex marriage than oppose , found 45 per cent of Anglins believed equal marriage was right while jt 37 per cent believed was poll was a marked shift om a prev poll three years where 38 per cent were favour and 47 per cent public at large are also overwhelmgly supportive of equal marriage, acrdg to the latt 2013 around the troductn of the law 54 per cent supported equal marriage, while 37 per cent opposed .

THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND’S GAY GOT MARRIED. NO ONE OM THE ROYAL FAY ATTEND.

Get the ee Morng Headl email for news om our reporters across the worldSign up to our ee Morng Headl emailBra has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of of Commons Speaker John Berw told lawmakers on Wednday that gay marriage had bee enshred law— the day after the bill to legalize same-sex marriage England and Wal cleared Queen's approval of the Marriage (same sex upl) Bill was a formaly, and now clears the way for the first gay marriag, the first of which are expected to be nducted by Summer bill enabl gay upl to get married both civil and relig ceremoni England and Wal. However, relig anisatns will have to 'opt ' on performg gay Brish ernment troduced the bill January and proposals were fally approved by MPs and peers on Mister David Cameron had backed , but divid his Conservative Party and touched off strint bat the Hoe of Commons and Hoe of Lords. On 7 June 2003 Gene Robson be the first openly gay bishop the Epispal church of the US; on 3 Augt 2022 Archbishop Jt Welby “affirms validy” of the 1998 Lambeth claratn that homosexual relatnships are patible wh scripture (Jt Welby ‘affirms validy’ of 1998 gay sex is s claratn, 2 Augt).

Ian GordonFolktone, Kent The affirmatn that gay sex is a s will e much nsternatn, cludg among many Anglins who regnise the sufferg that this regrsive posn has flicted on gay people.

William BartramHampton, Greater London I spect that a lot of people will share my disgt at the affirmatn that gay sex is a s. Over the seven s she reigned, she oversaw a breadth of polil and cultural progrs for LGBTQ+ Brons that few other lers n claim to match, om the legalizatn of homosexualy to same-sex marriage, the passage of anti-discrimatn laws, and is ctomary for the monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II was mted to “polil ntraly, ” and avoid much public ment on LGBTQ+ rights over her reer (a fact bemoaned by many mentators).

ENGLAND, WAL SET FOR GAY MARRIAG 2014

However, others poted out that the charter did not explicly state a mment to LGBTQ+ equaly, nor even the words “gay” or “lbian, ” as the Advote reported at the time. Addnally, the Brish empire is rponsible for exportg laws that crimalize homosexualy to s dozens of loni, many of which still rema effect to this day.

” This marked the first time that the Queen has mentned LGBTQ+ rights sce 2003, when she vowed to support legislatn regardg same-sex partnerships, acrdg to Pk of Homophobia at Buckgham PalaceAlso 2017, the Daily Mail claimed that the Queen had privately opposed legislatn regardg same-sex marriage bee of her Christian fah. ” But 2018, the outlet also reported that the queen’s first openly gay senr footman, Ollie Roberts, rigned after a seri of “huiatg motns.