First same-sex couple to marry in Northern Ireland

GAYLES.TV.- Robyn Peoples y Sharni edwardYes, two women from the city of Belfast, have become the first homosexual couple to marry on Tuesday North Ireland. The wedding between the two girls of 26 and 27 years was possible after North Ireland will legalize gay marriage last October despite the opposition of some local politicians and religious leaders.

The couple has assured that they had not intended to be the first to do so, but was excited to become a symbol of the change in North Ireland. "This is for Northern Ireland. We need to show everyone that it's okay to be a same-sex couple«, Has asserted Peoples after the ceremony that has taken place in the town of Carrickfergus. "We have fought so hard and hard to get it and now we are here. Is incredible", Has expressed. Thus, he stated that with the wedding they seek «show that they are the same as a man and a woman«. «Our love is simply the same", have pointed.

El Democratic Unionist Party, socially conservative, and the largest group of the Northern Ireland AssemblyHe opposed the legislation, but after a campaign of groups in favor of equal rights, the British parliament intervened last year to align the region with the rest of the country. The change took effect on January 13, and just four weeks later the first wedding was celebrated.

The NGO Amnesty International has pointed out that it is a «proof that fighting for equality makes progress«.