More than a dozen upl make history as the first gay and lbian upl to legally marry ACT.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE: FIRST UPL WED ATRALIA
- GAY MARRIAGE: FIRST UPL WED ATRALIA
- MEET THE FIRST GAY COUPLE LEGALLY WED ATRALIA
- ATRALIA REVEALS FIRST GAY MARRIAGE END IN HEARTBREAK
- ATRALIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDGS BUT UPL AWA LEGAL LG
- ATRALIA'S 1ST GAY MARRIAGE ENDS WH TRAGIC ATH OF TERMALLY ILL SPOE
- IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ATRALIA
GAY MARRIAGE: FIRST UPL WED ATRALIA
* first gay couple to get married in australia *
Melbourne uple Amy and Elise McDonald beme the first gay pair Victoria to legally wed unr new same-sex marriage laws for siar reasons, the Herald Sun surprise weddg at Carlton Garns me about bee the uple had a mment ceremony planned for this weekend. More than a dozen upl have ma history today as the first gay and lbian upl to legally marry upl have registered orr to be able to wed this weekend ahead of a cisn on Thursday on whether the ACT's same-sex marriage law is valid.
GAY MARRIAGE: FIRST UPL WED ATRALIA
CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — A state lawmaker and his partner drsed matchg sus and ti embraced and kissed ont of Atralia's Parliament Hoe early Saturday one of the natn's first same-sex marriag. Stephen Dawson, a 38-year-old member of the opposn Labor Party the Wtern Atralian Parliament, and partner Dennis Lidlow, 39, flew 3,500 kilometers (2,200 ) across Atralia to be among the first gay upl to marry ceremoni the natnal pal Canberra on Saturday — the earlit opportuny unr the provcial ernment's landmark gay marriage laws. But Atralia's first gay marriag uld be short lived, wh the High Court to le Thursday on a feral ernment challenge to the validy of the Atralian Capal Terrory law. Feral law stat that marriage n be only between a man and a woman. The ernment argued Atralia's hight urt that the ACT law ntradicted that. Bills to change feral law to allow gay marriage were twice rejected by Parliament last year, and Prime Mister Tony Abbott was elected September on a platform of opposg marriage equaly. Dawson and Lidlow's marriage, nducted by a celebrant before a small group of iends and fay, beme official at 12:04 a.m. Three secury guards were on hand to ensure that the weddg party mataed an appropriate distance om Parliament's ont entrance. "I'm jt very, very happy," a tearful Dawson said after the ceremony. "I hope that the High Court se f to allow the laws to stay," he add. Earlier, Dawson said he and his partner cid that they didn't have a moment to lose before marryg. "We don't know how long we've got the sense that the High Court might overle the laws next week, so we thought: 'let's do straight away and let's have the maximum amount of time beg married,'" he said. Canberra's inic Telstra Tower was illumated wh sequential rabow lors om midnight to mark the first same-sex weddgs. The tower provid a lorful backdrop for Alan Wright's ceremony when he wed his 30-year-old partner Joel Player on an island Canberra's central Lake Burley Griff after midnight. He wasn't sure whether his marriage was before or after the 12:04 a.m. mark, and he didn't re. "I'm proud to be part of the first upl married Canberra," said Wright, a 34-year-old civil servant. Wright hop that even if the High Court l agast gay marriage, the judg will allow all marriag nducted before their cisn to stand. But Sydney Universy nstutnal lawyer Anne Twomey said that wasn't a possibily. She said there was a range of potential out for the urt challenge. It uld le that no state or terrory uld legislate for gay marriage, or that the ACT alone uld do so. If the urt led that the law n survive wh amendments, Twomey uld not say whether the marriag this weekend would be legal, or if the upl would have to marry aga after the legislatn was amend. Sharyn Gunn, the celebrant who married Wright and Player, said same-sex upl she had spoken to were evenly divid between those who wanted to get married as soon as possible and those who wanted to wa until after the urt cisn. Unr the ACT legislatn, upl have to give 30 days' notice of their tentn to marry. The advocy group Atralian Marriage Equaly said at least 20 same-sex upl are marryg Canberra this weekend, cludg s puty director, Ivan Hton. Hton, 38, is marryg his Malaysian-born Atralian partner Chris Teoh, 35, on Saturday afternoon. The uple wed Montreal, Canada, five years ago, but the marriage is not regnized unr Atralian law. Hton said he never nsired wag for the certaty of the High Court cisn before tyg the knot aga. "It would only be worse for to realize that we'd had an opportuny and we'd missed ," Hton said. Gay marriage has legal regnn 18 untri as well as 16 U.S. stat pl the District of Columbia. * first gay couple to get married in australia *
"But 's important that they know that 's OK to be gay and 's OK to hope that one day you're gog to fd the most amazg, betiful, sensive, plementary iend for life, and that's what I've found wh Chris. The world's first same-sex uple to be married a nsulate is a gay Atralian pair, reports Stevenson married Peter Fraser, who is a dual Brish and Atralian cizen, at the Brish Consulate Sydney yterday.
MEET THE FIRST GAY COUPLE LEGALLY WED ATRALIA
Gay marriage is now legal Atralia as a rult of a natnwi plebisce that occurred 2017. Homo and hetero sexual marriag are nsired equal. * first gay couple to get married in australia *
"Most of the people opposed to probably don't know any gay people, " he said. \u201cAtralia has s first gay marriage | via @Rob_Stott (who ught the bouquet)\u201d — (). MELBOURNE, March 7 (Rters) - Atralia’s first gay marriage lasted jt 48 days and end heartbreak wh the ath of a termally ill woman, Queensland state parliament heard on Wednday after the fay gave permissn for tails to be released.
ATRALIA REVEALS FIRST GAY MARRIAGE END IN HEARTBREAK
Stephen Dawson, a 38-year-old member of the opposn Labor Party the Wtern Atralian Parliament, and partner Dennis Lidlow, 39, flew 2, 200 across Atralia to be among the first gay upl to marry ceremoni the natnal pal Canberra on Saturday — the earlit opportuny unr the provcial ernment's landmark gay marriage laws.
ATRALIA HOLDS FIRST GAY WEDDGS BUT UPL AWA LEGAL LG
But Atralia's first gay marriag uld be short-lived, wh the High Court to le Thursday on a feral ernment challenge to the validy of the Atralian Capal Terrory law. Bills to change feral law to allow gay marriage were twice rejected by Parliament last year, and Prime Mister Tony Abbott, who was elected September, is opposed to marriage equaly.
Alan Wright, a 34-year-old civil servant who also married his partner Canberra shortly after midnight, said he hop that even if the High Court l agast gay marriage, the judg will allow all marriag nducted before their cisn to stand. Sydney Universy nstutnal lawyer Anne Twomey said the high urt might le that no state or terrory uld legislate for gay marriage, or that the ACT alone uld do so. Gay marriage has legal regnn 18 untri as well as 16 U.
ATRALIA'S 1ST GAY MARRIAGE ENDS WH TRAGIC ATH OF TERMALLY ILL SPOE
SYDNEY (Rters) - They met passg while tryg to lose weight but on Thursday Atralian men Warren Orlandi and Ply Phillips ma history by beg the first same sex uple to get married on top of the Sydney Harbor uple took their vows ont of fay and iends gathered on the stcture dubbed the “at hanger”, 134 meters (439 feet) above the cy’s ma harbor, two days before the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi weddg is a ftg personal tone for Orlandi pecially.
IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ATRALIA
Atralia beme the 26th natn to legalize same-sex marriage December 2017, a watershed moment a untry where some stat held homosexual activy to be illegal until twenty years ago. Stephen Dawson, a 38-year-old member of the opposn Labor Party the Wtern Atralian Parliament, and partner Dennis Lidlow, 39, flew 3, 500 kilometers (2, 200 ) across Atralia to be among the first gay upl to marry ceremoni the natnal pal Canberra on Saturday — the earlit opportuny unr the provcial ernment’s landmark gay marriage Atralia’s first gay marriag uld be short lived, wh the High Court to le Thursday on a feral ernment challenge to the validy of the Atralian Capal Terrory law. Bills to change feral law to allow gay marriage were twice rejected by Parliament last year, and Prime Mister Tony Abbott was elected September on a platform of opposg marriage equaly.