The first gay couple
In a first, homosexual couple says ‘I Do’ in Telangana
Hosted on the outskirts of Hyderabad, the event was attended by close friends, family and members of the LGBTQ community. The duo decided to officially exchange rings with a ‘promising ceremony’ for acceptance, more than validation. “It all still feels really dreamy. To be able to call Abhay my spouse feels so beautiful. To possess your loved ones accept, love and bless you is a blessing and we’re grateful for this, for this day and each day of our lives,” Chakraborty was quoted by Official Humans of Hyderabad.
The couple, who has been in a relationship for over eight years, had a blast, combining some fun rituals and wedding activities from both their Punjabi and Bengali backgrounds. While the pair was seen applying mehendi on their palms for sangeet, the couple also wore topor, a traditional headgear worn by Bengali grooms on wedding day.
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For the main event, the dapper duo opted for white tuxes with bow ties and exchanged rings in a lavish marquee, cheered upon by family and friends.
“We hope to live in a world with no closets,” the couple told local med
25 wedding photos display the very first LGBT couples to marry in their countries and the stories behind them
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- LGBTQ couples around the world have fought to have their love recognized with the same marriage rights as vertical people.
- Thirty countries worldwide allow same-sex marriage, according to the Pew Research Center. But most of these gains did not come without a fight from campaigners and couples in love.
- The latest country to legalize it was Northern Ireland, when Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples married in February 2020.
- Scroll down to see some photos from the very first homosexual marriages in 15 countries. Every picture records not just a couple's massive day, but also a historical milestone.
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Every wedding is an vital day.
But some marriages make history — such as the unions that signal a country's acceptance of LGBT rights
10 Milestone Moments in Queer TV History
July 28, 2013— -- intro: Univision made history this week when it aired a same-sex wedding on the telenovela "Amores Verdaderos" ("True Loves"). It's the first wedding of its gentle (the, you know, homosexual kind) to be aired on the network. It was hella dramatic too, featuring lingering looks and straw hats and matching ties and a rotund pug in a tiny suit.
Buuuuut, it's not as if this exists in a vacuum -- a lot had to contain happened to get Fusion's Papa network to this moment. So let's watch back on some of the many milestone moments in how gays and lesbians have been portrayed on television. (Stay tuned for part II of our Gay Milestone Moments in TV later this week -- there's a lot!)
We may have far to go, but we've come a long way, baby.
quicklist: 1title: First queer person on an American reality show text: Filmed in 1971 and first aired in early 1973, PBS' "An American Family" followed the lives of the Loud family, including eldest son Lance, who came out to his family during the show's run and, thus, became what is widely believed to be the first openly g
Many have been intrigued by the lore surrounding Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, who served Fifth Dynasty pharaoh King Niuserre as manicurists and “royal confidants,” according to hieroglyphics on their tomb. Built in 2400 BCE in their honor, the tomb is one of the largest and most intricately decorated in the Saqqara necropolis, and the incredible preservation of its contents has also established an argument that these two, interred together in an adopt, are the oldest documented homosexual couple in history (though they both still claim to spin 35 every year).
Among those captivated by their story is Angel Manson, a Michigan-based illustrator who portrayed the couple in their digital artwork “Joined in Life” (2021), part of a series dedicated to the occluded histories of queer people of color.
“Niankhumn and Khnumhotep were two male lovers who were buried together in a joint tomb in Saqqara, Egypt,” Manson told Hyperallergic. “Their epigraph reads ‘Joined in life, joined in death.’ I created this piece to capture the love and intimacy the two shared, and show that Black, queer love is as old as time itself.”
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