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Activists celebrate France’s first gay wedding amid mass protests
By Max Ehrenfreund, Published: May 29, 2013
Two French activists exchanged vows Wednesday in what was apparently the first gay wedding under the country’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage and adoption. Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau were married in Montpellier, a city in southern France with a large gay community. Autin and Boileau had told Agence France-Presse that theirs would be a public wedding and “an occasion for everyone.”
The ceremony was a kind of counter-protest to a massive anti-gay marriage demonstration in Paris over the weekend, which police said drew 150,000 people. Hundreds of thousands more joined similar protests in the French capital in January and again in March.
Although it seems unlikely that the gay marriage law, signed earlier this month, will be repealed, opponents haven’t retreated, Reuters reports; on the contrary, protesters have moved to oppose assisted procreation and surrogate motherhood for gay couple
Activists celebrate France’s first gay wedding amid mass protests
By Max Ehrenfreund, Published: May 29, 2013
Two French activists exchanged vows Wednesday in what was apparently the first gay wedding under the country’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage and adoption. Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau were married in Montpellier, a city in southern France with a large gay community. Autin and Boileau had told Agence France-Presse that theirs would be a public wedding and “an occasion for everyone.”
The ceremony was a kind of counter-protest to a massive anti-gay marriage demonstration in Paris over the weekend, which police said drew 150,000 people. Hundreds of thousands more joined similar protests in the French capital in January and again in March.
Although it seems unlikely that the gay marriage law, signed earlier this month, will be repealed, opponents haven’t retreated, Reuters reports; on the contrary, protesters have moved to oppose assisted procreation and surrogate motherhood for gay couple
