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• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GETTG MARRIED THE UK GAY MARRIAGE LAWS UK
• GAY MARRIAGE: 15,000 SAME-SEX UPL WED SCE LAW CHANGE
• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL BRA – PICTUR
• GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED
• GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED AT MIDNIGHT ENGLAND AND WAL
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UK: OVER 1,400 GAY WEDDGS THREE MONTHS AFTER NEW LAW
• GAY MARRIAGE: MPS BACK BILL SPE CONSERVATIVE BACKBENCH OPPOSN
• LDSEY GRAHAM ARGU GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS SHOULD BE LEFT UP TO STAT
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• KEV SPACEY FELT ‘PRSURED TO E OUT AS GAY’ AFTER SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

GETTG MARRIED THE UK GAY MARRIAGE LAWS UK

Same-sex marriage beme legal jt after midnight on 29 March 2014, wh several upl optg to tie the knot moments source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Slightly more women have married pared to men - Tera Millward and Helen Brearley married on 29 March 2014Peter McGrah and David Cabreza married at 00:01 BST at Islgton Town Hall havg been together for 17 McGrah said: "I don't thk thgs have changed for many ways, we were already a long-term relatnship, we already had two kids, except the visibily of gay marriage across the world starts to make a difference. "There have always been gay men and lbians long-term relatnships that have que happily survived wh the ntext of fay and muny, but the law ught up wh the existence, and I'm hopg other untri legislatn n give people a chance. "He add: "Gay men and lbians don't want to be fed or nstraed by notns of 'tradnal' marriage, but the troductn of marriage equaly around the world is a signifier of a kd of progrs for sexual mori.

"Media ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza, John Coffey and Bernardo Marti, and Andrew Wale and Neil Allard were among the first gay upl to marryThe ONS said the most popular month to get married so far had been Augt 2014 wh 844 marriag. 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. '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.

GAY MARRIAGE: 15,000 SAME-SEX UPL WED SCE LAW CHANGE

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".

“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, … are not prrisg gay rights, or tramplg over tradn; we are allowg a space for the two to exist si by si.

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

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. 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. Approval fell the 1980s when the Aids crisis and the troductn of sectn 28 - a law prohibg the promotn or teachg of homosexualy schools - uld have swayed public opn acrdg to NatCen, the thk tank which ns the a steady and rapid rise om the early 1990s reflects a wir trend of social liberalisatn, somethg also seen changg attus to pre-maral sex.

GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL BRA – PICTUR

Approval of pre-maral sex grew ially among the young - as they got olr they retaed that belief, and soon both old and young were more liberal on the same-sex relatnships the shift attu has been quicker - not only did young people wh liberal views get olr, but olr people changed their mds, might part be bee chang the law, such as the legalisatn of civil partnerships and then gay marriage, have a powerful fluence on people's views, a NatCen spokman suggts. 1967 - Sex between two men over 21 and " private" is crimalised1980 - Decrimalisatn Stland1982 - Decrimalisatn Northern Ireland1994 - The age of nsent for two male partners is lowered to 182000 - The ban on gay and bisexual people servg the armed forc is lifted; the age of nsent is equalised for same- and oppose-sex partners at 162002 - Same-sex upl are given equal rights when to adoptn2003 - Gross cency is removed as an offence2004 - A law allowg civil partnerships is passed2007 - Discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn is banned2010 - Genr reassignment is add as a protected characteristic equaly legislatn2014 - Gay marriage be legal England, Wal and Stland3. Government has attempted to redrs this legacyGiven this legacy of crimalisatn, the ernment troduced a scheme October 2012 allowg those prosecuted unr funct gay-sex-related laws, to have their nvictns removed om police and urt Home Office timat that there were about 50, 000 such offenc rerd on the system om the 1950s until of the 50, 000, only an timated 16, 000 are for people who are still livg and so able to all of the 16, 000 offenc are eligible to be "disregard".

Rerdg of homophobic hate crim has risenA steep rise homophobic hate crim has been rerd over the past five years, but this is thought to be large part down to an crease people reportg cints rather than a genue rise crime.

GAY RIGHTS 50 YEARS ON: 10 WAYS WHICH THE UK HAS CHANGED

The Natnal Police Chiefs Council's lead on homophobic crim, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Haton, says: "Tradnally, homophobic hate crime has been signifintly unr-reported and we do not believe that current statistics accurately reflect actual levels of abe.

It's strikg that people aged 16-24 are more than five tim more likely than those aged over 65 to intify as gay, lbian or Office for Natnal Statistics keeps rerds of people who intify themselv as gay, lbian or bisexual - 1. This is likely to unrtimate the real numbers as the survey don't pture sexual attractn or 2005 the ernment tried to timate the size of the lbian, gay and bisexual populatn and me up wh a larger number - 5-7% of the populatn. Gay people say they feel ls happy than their straight peersPeople who intify as gay, lbian and bisexual report lower levels of well-beg than heterosexuals the ONS looks at happs, life satisfactn, and the extent to which people feel their life is worthwhile.

Gay and lbian people report higher levels of anxiety than straight people, but bisexual people are even more likely to suffer om the lbian, gay and bisexual people are also more likely to suffer om suicidal thoughts than their straight iends, acrdg to a 2014 survey by LGBT support chary Metro. Same-sex upl have gaed equal marriage rightsCivil partnerships were legalised 2004 throughout the Uned Kgdom, wh the first ceremoni takg place at the end of the followg 140, 000 people entered to civil partnerships between 2005 and 2015, the last year for which figur are the UK, gay and lbian upl were granted many of the same rights as married heterosexuals, albe wh a few differenc around issu like private-sector meant that upl uld no longer be kept out of hospal rooms when their partner was sick, they would no longer lose their home or bs bee of tax laws, and they had parental rights over marriage was legalised a later, wh the first ceremoni takg place England, Wal and Stland 2014.

GAY MARRIAGE LEGALISED AT MIDNIGHT ENGLAND AND WAL

Countri where gay marriage is legal2010 Iceland, Portugal, Argenta2013 Uguay, New Zealand, France, Brazil2014 UK (excludg Northern Ireland)2015 Luxembourg, Ireland, Mexi, USAA further 28 untri guarantee some civil-partnership regnn acrdg to ILGA. Beg gay is still crimalised many parts of the worldBra is markg 50 years sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy but same-sex relatns are still illegal across vast swath of the world.

StatisticsNumber of same-sex marriag England and Wal by genr 2014-2020Reasons to favor same-sex marriage the Uned Stat 2012Reasons for opposg same-sex marriage the Uned Stat 2012Survey on the stance of Amerins on same-sex marriage 2015Spaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2019, by genrSpaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2019, by tnal attamentSpaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2019, by iologySpaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2019, by religsy levelSpaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2021Spaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2009-2019Spaniards' opn on same-sex marriage 2019, by age groupTotal number of same-sex marriag the Netherlands 2001-2021, by genrAttu towards gay marriage Great Bra 2014, by ageAttu towards gay marriage Great Bra 2014, by polil stance Total number of same-sex civil unns as of January Italy 2017Opn on LGBT+ rights CEE 2023, by untrySpaniards opn on child nceptn by same-sex upl 2019, by tnal attaStatista Acunts:. Media ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza, John Coffey and Bernardo Marti, and Andrew Wale and Neil Allard were among the first gay upl to marryThe first same-sex weddgs have taken place after gay marriage beme legal England and Wal at midnight. "The law change would enurage young people unsure of their sexualy, he source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Tera Millward and Helen Brearley married HalifaxImage source, APImage ptn, Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sclair Treadway married the uncil chamber at Camn Town Hall LondonImage source, PAImage ptn, Sandi Toksvig and her partner Debbie renewed their civil partnership vows at an event London celebratg the law changeLater on Saturday morng, Mr Cameron tweeted: "Congratulatns to the gay upl who have already been married - and my bt wish to those about to be on this historic day.

"This is an credibly happy time for so many gay upl and lbian upl who will be gettg married, but 's an credibly proud time for our untry as well, regnisg equal marriage law, " he said. Mr Tatchell said the uple and all the others gettg married had "ma history" and "ma Bra a more tolerant, equal place" a crowd of photographers, journalists and well-wishers wag, the uple took the opportuny to highlight the ternatnal stggle for gay McGrah said: "Very few untri afford their gay and lbian cizens equal marriage rights and we believe that this change law will brg hope and strength to gay men and lbians Nigeria, Uganda, Rsia, India and elsewhere, who lack basic equaly and are beg crimalised for their sexual orientatn.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

"Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Andrew Wale and Neil Allard were the first same-sex uple to marry BrightonImage source, AFPImage ptn, Phil Robathan and Jam Prton later married at Brighton Town HallLater on Saturday, a crowd of about 2, 000 people - which clud a number of celebri - gathered to watch edian Sandi Toksvig and her partner Debbie renew their civil partnership uple, who entered to a civil partnership seven years ago, exchanged vows on stage at the Royal Ftival Hall London at a special event to celebrate the troductn of gay marriage the UK. But some relig groups rema opposed to gay Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: "We n't jt refe an stutn - refe somethg that always has been - bee we say 's somethg that we want. The Roman Catholic Church oppos the change the gay virs, though, have said they are prepared to fy their bishops by sistg they have a right to ptn, The Rev Andrew Ca says he do not want nontatn wh the Church, but "mt do what is right"Among them is the Reverend Andrew Ca, who said the Church was enterg uncharted terrory, but he would not be "ightened" out of dog what he believed was Ca, who plans to marry his partner the summer, said he would do so whether the Church approved or not.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

More than 18 years after the Netherlands beme the world’s first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has bee the latt European jurisdictn to allow gays and lbians to marry.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". "Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

Last month, Gallup found that a rerd high of 71% of Amerins support , cludg a majory of are the nam of every Republin reprentative who opposed feral protectns for gay marriage:Robert Arholt (Ala. Wednday's nfirmatory vote was due to take place at the 2020 nference but that was ncelled bee of the Covid-19 chang mean the Methodist Church now holds two parallel fns of marriage - one posn says "marriage n only be between a man and a woman" and the other that "marriage n be between any two people" officials hope the dual fn will persua nservative church not to leave and protect misters om discrimatn claims if they refe to marry gay Rev Sonia Hicks, print of the Methodist Conference, said: "The bate today and our wir nversatn has been nducted wh grace and mutual rpect.

Other policians stmental the fight for equal marriage clu lord Nick Herbert, the first openly gay man to be elected for the Conservativ and now Boris Johnson’s “special envoy on LGBT+ rights”, Tory mister and barons Ta Stowell, who was rponsible for guidg same-sex marriage through the Hoe of Lords, and stalwart Labour MP Yvette Cooper. Media ptn, The rult of the vote on gay marriage was read out to a packed Hoe of CommonsMPs have approved same-sex marriage England and Wal a key Commons vote, spe the opposn of almost half the Conservative MPs. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns.

Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995. 1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Other policians stmental the fight for equal marriage clu lord Nick Herbert, the first openly gay man to be elected for the Conservativ, Tory mister and barons Ta Stowell, who was rponsible for guidg same-sex marriage through the Hoe of Lords, and stalwart Labour MP Yvette Cooper. Current statSce Nov 18, 2003No censorship Prev law repealed by sectn 122 of the Lol Government Act punishmentSectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 stated that lol thori uld not "tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" or "promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship". Current statSce Jan 12, 2000Legal The Mistry of Defence were forced to change their stance on when the European Court of Human Rights led September 1999 that the then current ban on gays the ary was unlawful.

GAY MARRIAGE

Sign up for the daily Insi Washgton email for exclive US verage and analysis sent to your boxGet our ee Insi Washgton emailRepublin Senator Ldsey Graham fed the fears of Democrats and the left general on Sunday durg an terview on CNN which he argued for the end of feral protectns for gay marriage South Carola senator appeared on State of the Unn asi Sen Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, for a rare bipartisan terview/bate.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UK: OVER 1,400 GAY WEDDGS THREE MONTHS AFTER NEW LAW

”Ms Bash then asked him how many more issu he believ that should expand to, brgg up the se of Lovg vs Virgia, which tablished terracial marriage as a ferally-protected Republin senator rpond “no, no” when asked if he was suggtg that precent should be revised, and pivoted away quickly to blame Democrats for talkg about issu he said were not relevant to current problems facg left has been raisg the alarms about nservativ seekg to do jt that, warng that precents affirmg the nstutnaly of affirmative actn and protectg the rights to gay marriage and even terracial marriage uld be next as the Supreme Court mak a hard pivot to the right thanks to three Tmp-appoted nservative Mr Graham sisted that Democrats worryg about such thgs were “talkg about thgs that are not happeng bee you don’t want to talk about flatn” and other issu.

Democrats have phed for vot to dify abortn rights, gay marriage rights and ntraceptn rights Congrs followg the repeal of Roe vs Wa this year but as of yet have not been able to ph such legislatn through the 50-50 Senate where would require 60 vot to break the filibter. The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.

GAY MARRIAGE: MPS BACK BILL SPE CONSERVATIVE BACKBENCH OPPOSN

LDSEY GRAHAM ARGU GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS SHOULD BE LEFT UP TO STAT

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

KEV SPACEY FELT ‘PRSURED TO E OUT AS GAY’ AFTER SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS