Throughout the week, the media has been frantically asking, as well as, receiving questions about the US legalising gay marriage in every state. Most people would obviously have to support it for the US government to legalise it, and they finally did on Friday 26th June.
The UK legalised gay marriage in July 2013, and the streets of London were flooded with many proposals and celebrations.
#LOVEWINS Legalising Gay Marriage
Words: Vera Arabi
This also links to one of our other features columns this month, the Oscar Wilde quotes feature, because he himself was gay. This was in the late 1800s though, when homosexuality was much less accepted, if accepted at all. His novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” contained homosexual characters, for instance, a male painter who fell in love with the man he was painting portraits of. Unfortunately, his novel was used against him in court.