The gay community fought for years to win marriage equality. I don’t remember mixed-sex couples being so vociferous then
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan campaigned for four years to have civil partnerships recognised for mixed-sex couples. On Tuesday, the government confirmed that the wait was over. Social media has been bursting with congratulatory tweets (“will you not marry me?”) and couples are arranging dates and parties and crying with happiness because, finally, they can have what they want. So why do I find myself feeling grizzly and angry?
The LGBTQ community has campaigned for years to be granted legal equality, allowing same-sex couples the same human rights as our mixed-sex friends who could, if they chose, get married. Prior to the Civil Partnership Act of 2004 there was civil registration, only in London under Ken Livingstone, which was no more than us gays adding our names to a register to confirm that we were in a same-sex relationship. There was nothing legal about it, but it was a start, a step on our journey to equality.
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