To Equal Marriage!

So this isn't quite timely as it happened last week, but yay! The Same Sex Couples marriage bill gained royal assent last week meaning that it is now law and will come into force some time in 2014. This was awfully timely as my Partner arrived back in the UK a little over a week ago (phew we got the visa!) and we had a belated civil partnership reception party for our friends on Friday night.

I believe equal marriage is a real turning point towards LGBT+ equality in the UK - for the first time in our history young people of any orientation can grow up thinking their sexuality and choice of partner is completely valid. It's not a second class system for same-sex couples anymore. I remember being 10 or 11 and watching newsround when they introduced the new age of consent law, making it 16 regardless of sexual orientation.

It's amazing to think how far we've come since 2000, let alone the immense cultural changes on the 20th century as a whole!