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Join Date: Jun 2009
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First same-sex weddings take place in Scotland
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Scotland's first same-sex weddings have taken place.
Joe Schofield and Malcolm Brown tied the knot at a humanist ceremony at the Trades Hall in Glasgow, while Susan and Gerrie Douglas-Scott married in private in the city.
The new law on gay marriage came into effect in Scotland earlier this month and these first weddings were held at 00:01 on Hogmanay.
The couples were joined by guests including the first minister.
Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie MSP acted as witnesses at the marriage of Susan and Gerrie, while Scotland's national poet Liz Lochhead and Scottish government minister Marco Biagi MSP attended the ceremony for Mr Schofield and Mr Brown.
'Quite a year'
Susan, 54, and Gerrie Douglas-Scott, who is 59, live in Glasgow where they first met 18 years ago and have five grown up children.
They had a civil partnership in March 2006 and decided to convert it through a full marriage ceremony.
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More here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30637608
About time too.
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