52 Heartwarming Pictures From The First Day Of Equal Marriage In The U.K.

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1. Peter McGraith and David Cabreza got married on the stroke of midnight at Islington Town Hall.

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They’ve been together for 17 years, and were active in the campaign to make same-sex marriage legal.

20. In Brighton, Andrew Wale and Neil Allard also got married shortly after midnight.


29. And the weddings continued…

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Now it's the brides turn to celebrate at Brighton Town Hall #equalmarriage


30. Sarah Keith and Emma Powell also got married in Brighton later in the day.


40. Across the country, rainbow flags flew to mark the occasion.


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[shenmue]

1. Hooray!

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. cool pics

[Ohio Joe]

3. K&R - nt

[darkangel218]

4. So happy for them!

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[Cha]

5. Wow.. I didn't know UK was a little behind some of our states, she..

Same-sex marriage ceremonies became possible in England and Wales from 29 March, so Peter McGraith and David Cabreza decided to get married at the stroke of midnight.

And, thank you for the endearing pics made possible by the law being passed.

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Somewhat behind in some ways (but the UK, or at least England, has an established church)

ahead in others; the Civil Partnership Act of 2004 gave same-sex couples the right to form legally recognised civil partnerships with the same legal status as civil marriage (and with same-sex partners of UK citizens entitled to emigrate under the same rules as married spouses), which the US didn't catch up to until just last year when DOMA was ruled unconstitutional.

[sheshe2]

8. They may have been behind some of us, Cha.

Yet so good to see them moving forward.

Love is a Human Right

[Initech]

6. Hooray for equality!!