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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
•  REAL LIFE WEDDGS
• GETTG MARRIED THE UK GAY MARRIAGE LAWS UK
• CULTURE RE-VIEW: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGALISED THE UK
• GAY MARRIAG ULD BE NSIRED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• I WATCHED ONE OF BRA'S FIRST-EVER GAY WEDDGS
• IN PICTUR: UK'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS

GAY MARRIAGE

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 REAL LIFE WEDDGS

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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.

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.

GETTG MARRIED THE UK GAY MARRIAGE LAWS 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". For same-sex upl, beg gay and beg a Christian don’t always f together easily, pecially when they are makg plans for their weddg day. It means the church uld be closer than ever to allowg gay upl to weddgs were ma legal England and Wal 2014, but those same laws also protected the Church of England’s right to NOT hold such ceremoni whout the fear of beg taken to urt unr equaly legislatn.

I am gay and startg to thk about planng my own weddg and when people ask me what sort of ceremony I would like, I don’t yet have an answer bee I know that one optn that is not open to me is to have a ceremony my church. They both met through church but feel like on their weddg day last summer they had to choose between beg gay and beg a Christian bee, like any same-sex uple, they were not allowed to marry wh the Church of England.

One of the those leadg the project is Canon Gil Goddard, vir of St John’s Waterloo who is himself gay and a civil partnership.

CULTURE RE-VIEW: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGALISED THE UK

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.

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.

GAY MARRIAG ULD BE NSIRED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

”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. ” 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 WATCHED ONE OF BRA'S FIRST-EVER GAY WEDDGS

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? Image source, RtersSame-sex upl England and Wal are celebratg after gay marriage beme legal.

Image source, Getty ImagSupporters gathered outsi Islgton Town Hall London to ngratulate the pair on beg among the first gay upl to marry the UK. Some gay upl, cludg John Coffey and Bernardo Marti London, started their ceremoni late on Friday orr to marry jt after the law changed at midnight. The first gay weddgs are expected Stland October; Northern Ireland has no plans to allow gay marriage.

Image source, Getty ImagTera Millward, pictured wh her new wife Helen Brearley after their weddg Halifax on Saturday morng, said gettg a weddg certifite would mean there was "te equaly" the law change took effect, allowg upl such as Phil Robathan and Jam Prton to marry, Liberal Democrat lear Nick Clegg said "gettg to aln ernment will have been worth " if helped jt one young gay person feel "safer, stronger, taller". Some relig groups, cludg the Catholic Church, rema opposed to gay marriage, but Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby said: "The law's changed; we accept the suatn. The first same-sex marriage at an Anglin church the UK is expected to take place Glasgow later this Mary’s Cathedral has bee the first the untry to be given permissn to nduct gay weddgs, a month after the Sttish Epispal church general synod voted overwhelmgly to allow s church to host the vote rulted non law beg changed to remove a doctral clse statg that marriage was between a man and a woman.

IN PICTUR: UK'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS

“We are glad to be able to wele them and expect there will be many others who will follow them, ” he ngregatn at St Mary’s were active the mpaign to allow gay marriage Stland. “I’m a gay man myself and so ially for me was about g out and then, havg e out, was about helpg the church to e out, ” said Holdsworth.

It was a very supportive place and seemed to me important to get the church to tell the tth that was acceptg about people same-sex relatnships and then gradually members this ngregatn started to help the ph for gay marriage.

“People sometim say that support for gay marriage is the biggt change social attus that has ever been measured, ” he said. “People ed to disagree wh gay relatnships que strongly and now they support them very strongly.