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Contents:

• GETTG MARRIED THE UK GAY MARRIAGE LAWS UK
• CULTURE RE-VIEW: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGALISED THE UK
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• I WATCHED ONE OF BRA'S FIRST-EVER GAY WEDDGS
• FIRST CHURCH WEDDG FOR GAY UPLE IS HELD UK
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL BRA – PICTUR

GETTG MARRIED THE UK GAY MARRIAGE LAWS UK

LGBTQ+ people al wh enough homophobia on a regular basis, so let’s keep that out of our weddgs. Culture Re-View: Gay Marriage is legalised the UK. 29 March 2014: The first gay weddgs take place the UKAfter centuri of homophobic law the UK, today is the anniversary of the first legal weddgs between two people of the same sex the Civil Partnerships Act of 2004 had prevly ma same-sex civil partnerships legal, profferg many of the rights to gay upl, however was short of legalisg victory was won 2013 thanks to s of polil mpaigng by LGBTQ+ groups.

CULTURE RE-VIEW: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGALISED THE UK

Legislatn was passed England and Wal July, g to effect the next year on 29 March celebrate that day, here are some archive photos of the first gay weddgs that took place the UK.

We spoke to Reverend Andrew Forhew-Ca, the first Church of England to get married the UK, and how the Anglin Church's ntued refal to accept gay marriage is "herent". 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.

UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

'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".

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

A Belfast bakery n by evangelil Christians was not obliged to make a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage”, the supreme urt has led, overturng a £500 damag award imposed on unanimo cisn by the UK’s hight urt was greeted as a victory for ee speech but nmned by gay rights groups and the Equaly Commissn of Northern Ireland as a backward step batg had refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who supports the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland. He wanted to take to a private functn markg Internatnal Day Agast judgment, livered after the supreme urt’s first hearg Northern Ireland May, revers earlier cisns Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal lg that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual five jtic on the supreme urt – Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr, Lord Hodge and Lady Black – found the bakery did not refe to fulfil Lee’s orr bee of his sexual orientatn and therefore there was no discrimatn on those grounds.

“The bakers uld not refe to supply their goods to Mr Lee bee he was a gay man or supported gay marriage, but that is que different om obligg them to supply a ke iced wh a msage wh which they profoundly disagreed. The US supreme urt reached a siar ncln another bakery se June, when led favour of a Colorado baker who had refed to produce a weddg ke for a gay uple the lg, Lee said: “I’m very nfed about what this actually means.

”The Rabow Project, Northern Ireland’s largt support anisatn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, exprsed s disappotment at the #Ashers lg is an historic and semal judgement.

I WATCHED ONE OF BRA'S FIRST-EVER GAY WEDDGS

”A spokperson for the gay rights anisatn Stonewall said: “This is a backward step for equaly which needs to be urgently addrsed. The cisn that Ashers bakery were not discrimatory the so-lled ‘gay ke’ row is very ncerng for anyone who r about equaly. As well as meang that Ashers nnot be legally forced to aid the promotn of same-sex marriage, also means that gay bakers nnot be pelled by law to rate k wh anti-gay marriage slogans.

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be.

FIRST CHURCH WEDDG FOR GAY UPLE IS HELD UK

Supreme Court led uld refe to make a weddg webse for gay upl had ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh her. Smh — who did not plan to start creatg weddg webs until her se was rolved — would first have to get a requt om a gay uple and refe, triggerg a possible plat agast her, the state argued. Photos by Jake LewisHow has taken so long for gay weddg to bee legal the UK?

But for many, the passg of the law allowg gay upl to marry, which went to effect at midnight on Saturday, isn’t about weddgs. It's about the prciple that gay people should be allowed to do everythg that straight people n do—which should be a basic human, ’s not.

‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY

Beg gay is still illegal more than 70 untri, and while the UK is makg progrs, a recent BBC survey found that a fifth of Brish people would turn down an vatn to a same-sex weddg. On Friday night, I went to one of the first gay weddgs the UK to fd out what kd of fun the bigots are missg out grooms were Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sclair Treadway.

They got talkg on a gay datg se last year and met for drks at a hotel while Sean was on a bs trip Los Angel, where Sclair was livg. “The biggt surprise is the opposn to gay marriage the gay muny self, ” said Sean. “A lot of gay people feel like they've been exclud om heterosexual society, so they thk, We’ll keep our culture separate.

”We arrived at Camn Cy Hall and were greeted by Jonathan Simpson, Camn’s first openly gay mayor, a giant Mancunian bear of a man who rembl a heavyweight boxer more than he do an elected official. “Around the world kids are livg fear every day bee their fai won't accept that they’re gay.

GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL BRA – PICTUR

” Do gay weddgs have to adhere to weddg tradns? If someone wants to get married an unrground gay sex club, that's up to them, ” he joked.

” I wished were, the registrar (who is also gay) told me that tonight’s weddg would be a race agast the clock, bee a bunch of other gay upl around the UK had cid to get hched at midnight, meang Sean and Sclair would be petg to be the first. Outsi the hall, the women of the Camn Council PR team were snng Twter on their iPhon, disputg whether Sean and Sclair had fact been the first gay uple the UK to marry. I sat the rner wh a mtached gay man an all-whe su discsg the "fag hag" stereotype and had a bemg nversatn about David Icke wh a guy basilly drsed as Jamiroquai.

I dnkenly rnered Mayor Jonathan and asked him annoyg qutns like, “Are you allowed to go to gay bars if you are mayor? Two women have married what is believed to be the UK's first gay weddg held a Tipper and Barb Burn tied the knot at the Metropolan muny church (MCC) Bournemouth, Dorset, on law allowed same-sex upl to marry on 29 March, but this was the first ceremony to be nducted a relig buildg, the MCC Rev Dwayne Man, who officiated at the ceremony, said the church had taken pri celebratg diversy and lled a historic and Tipper, who have attend MCC for 15 years, said they were surprised to disver their weddg was a first. Unfortunately shows the lack of effective mistry by most church to gay people so many ways.