Uruguay: First gay couple registered to marry wed and ‘celebrate love’ of new equal marriage law

The first gay couple to register to marry in Uruguay when a new equal marriage law took effect on 5 August, have married as gay rights activists celebrate in the country.

Sergio Miranda and Rodrigo Borda married in Montevideo on Thursday accompanied by 30 friends and family, and around a hundred members of the media.

“While in Russia they incite violence and hunt us down and kill us like the Nazi regime, in Uruguay we can get married. We can celebrate love. So I’m very happy to live in a country like Uruguay and not like Russia,” Miranda is quoted as saying by the AFP.

The couple met in 1999 during the Night of Nostalgia, Uruguay’s annual celebration held on 24 August, and reports say that the couple have “never parted” since.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/08/23/uruguay-first-gay-couple-registered-to-marry-wed-and-celebrate-love-of-new-equal-marriage-law/

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