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PRANKS, TEARS, THE FIRST GAY MARRIAGE ON TONIGHT'S 'DON'T TELL THE BRI'

The pair met a gay bar and quickly beme separable. For the first time ever, a civil partnership will be aired on RTE’s Don’t Tell the Bri Moore (29) om Mullgar and Alan Dunleavy (39) om Blanchardstown have been together over four fell madly love, such that they’ve never spent more than two days viewers will be treated to perhaps one of the most lourful episos ever on Don’t Tell The Bri – wh a gay pri-themed weddg, pre-weddg pranks, and lots of ght told that he found the three week separatn om his beloved Al almost sufferable.

FUNNIT REACTNS TO GAY HARRY POTTER WEDDG ON DON'T TELL THE BRI

But I cid that gay pri is a great msage to send out, and ’s very lourful as well. ”Trevor and Al are proud to be the first gay uple to have their nuptials aired on Don’t Tell The Bri, and they say they don’t re about negative feedback. © 2018 GCN (Gay Communy News).

They're the two domant gay-rights issu today, but how do marriage and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" pare to each other, polilly? The abily of those who opposed DADT repeal to kill this bill the lame duck, even light of the strong opposn to repeal om troops the field, is an example of the growg mismatch culture power -- the power to name realy, the power to terme which stori get told and whose feelgs Gallagher, the DADT bate revealed a cultural mastreamg of gay rights, which ultimately led to the polil nsens around repealg the ary's rights, and homosexualy general, do seem far more supported/accepted now than they were five or ten years ago, but few actual metrics that e to md.

Fictnal gay upl now star primetime work ss, where "Will and Grace" once seemed kd of edgy. Our last Republin print, Dick Cheney, has a lbian dghter and supports gay rights. The public has long supported a repeal of DADT, while has opposed gay "marriage.

'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL' VS. GAY MARRIAGE

"See the followg chart om Gallup on DADT, om May 2010:And on gay marriage, om the same month:The trends are the same. Sce 1996, more and more people have supported gay marriage, while more and more have opposed DADT sce changg DADT remas far more popular (67 percent per Gallup, as of December 9) than regnizg gay marriage (43 percent for vs. " When Gallup asks if gay marriag should be regnized by law wh the same rights as "tradnal" marriag, gets negative rpons.

"Policy chang, meanwhile, have followed parallel tracks, as activists have prsed the admistratn to overturn Clton-era polici and found that slower means of change, outsi the Executive branch, were their only prsure on the Obama admistratn to unilaterally repeal DADT early Obama's tenure, the admistratn had to tell gay-rights supporters that only Congrs uld do ; a labor legislative procs ensued.

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

And as gay-rights activists prsed Obama to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act, the issue uld ultimately be solved by the proment urt se agast California's Proposn that se mak to the Supreme Court, gay-rights supporters uld get their way on both issu wh the span of a year. (The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said.

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.

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Pranks, tears, the first gay marriage on tonight's 'Don't Tell the Bri' | .

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