### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/1 "2011-10-19T23:57:54Z")
So as of yesterday I’m a married man, as is my husband. After ten years together in three countries, with all of the accompanying stress, job, and visa issues, I was convinced we’d never do this. **Mr. Mallard** felt, validly, that there was no point in marrying unless it was on equal terms, which it can’t quite be in the UK and isn’t at all in the US, at least on a national level or in the state we lived (California).\* Here in Canada, however, it is. Work colleagues, neighbours, and acquaintances were all as friendly and supportive as could be, and our status is equal in everything including name.
Western civilization continues apace.
That’s the MP part. The SIMS is just the thought that the world has come an amazing distance in my lifetime with regard to gay rights. Things really and truly have gotten better, to a degree I didn’t think I’d see in my lifetime, and that’s just awesome.
\*Our status outside Canada hasn’t changed: we were considered Civil Partners in the UK by virtue of our CA Domestic Partnership, the same label given to gays who marry in Canada, and of course the US federal gov’t doesn’t recognize it at all. Yet!
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/2 "2011-10-20T00:04:49Z")
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(I always cry at weddings.)
Congratulations. I hope sooner rather than later same-sex marriages are recognized throughout the civilized world.
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### Author:  [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/3 "2011-10-20T00:20:17Z")
Congratulations!
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/4 "2011-10-20T00:20:32Z")
Congratulations! I thought I sensed a disturbance in the force yesterday (insert winkey smiley).
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/5 "2011-10-20T00:33:59Z")
Did you guys both were tuxedos? Or was it Hawaiian shirts?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/6 "2011-10-20T00:38:27Z")
No—I wore a hideous tie (well, I didn’t think it was hideous, but a neutral observer might have, and the other groom certainly did) along with the suit I bought when I graduated college. **Mr. Mallard** wore a bowtie and nice jacket, but not a suit. We also both wore boots.
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### Author:  [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/7 "2011-10-20T00:43:31Z")
Congratulations to the new spousal pair!
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/8 "2011-10-20T00:44:12Z")
Congrats!
It couldn’t have happened to two luckier ducks. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/9 "2011-10-20T00:48:13Z")
I forgot to say, congratulations and good luck to you!
(Boots? All right! Please tell me they were rubber splashing-in-puddle boots. That would be awesome.)
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/10 "2011-10-20T00:48:58Z")
Congratulations! 🙂
(Now you just have to sort out who gets stuck with the bill…)
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/11 "2011-10-20T00:57:11Z")
Congratulation! I couldn’t be more pleased for you guys.
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### Author:  [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/12 "2011-10-20T00:58:23Z")
Pics, or it never happened!
😉
Congrats!
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/13 "2011-10-20T01:08:19Z")
Mazel tov! Most excellent news indeed.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/14 "2011-10-20T01:11:58Z")
Okay, if I can figure out how to do this. [Photos on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/68846810@N02/). I think. Can somebody tell me within the five-minute edit window whether that worked?
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/15 "2011-10-20T01:12:23Z")
Congratulations! I wish for many wonderful and glorious years together, and I wish that the rest of the world would recognize it. Love should not be legislated: it should be celebrated.
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/16 "2011-10-20T01:13:27Z")
The pictures worked! 2 minutes - how’s that? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/17 "2011-10-20T01:14:10Z")
> [@freckafree](#):
>
> Pics, or it never happened!
>
> 😉
>
> Congrats!
I second the motion!😛 It’s like with threads about kittens, puppies or babies, with weddings pics are a rule.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/18 "2011-10-20T01:15:38Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#):
>
> The pictures worked! 2 minutes - how’s that? 🙂
Brilliant! Thanks. And thanks for the congratulations, everyone! We’re very pleased.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/19 "2011-10-20T01:23:30Z")
Congrats and Best Wishes! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/20 "2011-10-20T01:26:11Z")
Aw congratulations! Sweet pics. 🙂
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