Two women will become the first gay couple to marry in Northern Ireland on Tuesday. Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, are getting married in Carrickfergus, near Belfast, as the new law allowing same-sex marriage came into force on Monday. "We didn't want to go down in history, we just fell in love," said the brides-to-be.
Legal gay marriage in the UK since 2014
The future wives thanked the "Love Equality" campaign, run by Amnesty International and other associations, which "paved the way" for this new law. "We are very grateful to the thousands of people who marched for our freedoms, to Love Equality and to the politicians who voted to change the law," said Robyn Peoples. "Without you, our marriage would not have been possible. "
"We're very humbled, especially to be the first from our community, knowing how hard thousands and thousands of people fought for this" l # LGBT + https://t.co/9X1pSxjKfs
- Thomson Reuters Foundation News (@TRF_Stories) February 11, 2020The law authorizing same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland was passed in July 2019 in the Parliament of Westminster. A group of Northern Irish MPs tried to oppose the measure, but were dismissed in October. Since then, Northern Ireland has regained a government and London has worked out the content of the new law so that the region aligns with the rest of the United Kingdom, where gay marriage has been legal since 2014.
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