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The Associated Press reports: Two silver-haired women made Delaware history Monday, becoming the first same-sex couple to legally wed under the state’s new gay marriage law. Democratic state Sen. Karen Peterson and her longtime partner, Vikki Bandy, both 63, exchanged vows in front of about 35 friends and supporters in a county clerk’s office, converting their civil union into a …

And now all four plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v Perry are married!

Today’s Toronto Star features a story about how a lesbian bride reacted to a wedding gift basket.  As JMG reader David notes via email, perhaps the most interesting part of the story is how the bride’s sexual orientation isn’t even mentioned other than in a passing reference to her bride. Consider this: you attend the wedding of a casual acquaintance. …

Earlier this week a French mayor said he’ll go to prison before performing a same-sex wedding ceremony. Today another mayor is in the national news. Claude Binaud, six-time mayor of Matha, a town in the Charente-Maritime region of south-western France, has caused a stir by refusing to marry a local man, Bernard Rouhaud, and his partner, it was reported on …

The mayor of the French town of Arcangues has become that nation’s first official threatened with a fine and prison time for refusing to conduct a same-sex marriage ceremony. “When people close the door at home, they do what they want,” Jean-Michel Colo told public service France Television. “For me, marriage is for a woman and man to have children. …

Oregon’s Williamette Week called the two local bakeries that have made national news for refusing to make gay wedding cakes.  Unshockingly, the businesses had no problem creating deliciousness for non-gay sinners. Last week five WW reporters called these two bakeries anonymously to get price quotes for other occasions frowned upon by some Christians. Surprisingly, the people who answered the phone …

Note the photo of President Hollande. UPDATE: The live video has concluded. UDPATE II: Via Towleroad, here’s a clip of the ceremony.

Hundreds of journalists and a lot of police are on hand in the French city of Montpellier today as the nation prepares for its first same-sex wedding. The first gay wedding in France on Wednesday will be anything but a private and quiet affair. Echoing months of acrimonious debate over a same-sex marriage law that was approved by lawmakers in …

France will see its first same-sex wedding on Wednesday. On Wednesday May 29, Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau from Montpellier will become the first gay couple to marry in France, at City Hall of Montpellier on Wednesday, May 29, Time TBA , 1 Place Georges Frêche. Vincent, 40 and Boileau, 30, met 7 years ago through their love of music. …

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake will officiate at a mass gay wedding ceremony during her city’s gay pride event. The GLBT Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland is hosting the annual parade and block party in Mount Vernon and festival at Druid Hill Park — the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender gathering in the state — on June …

This weekend our own Father Tony married Fort Lauderdale residents Mike and Ray, who met 48 years ago at a gay bar in New Jersey.  The ceremony, which took place at Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain, was attended by eight friends of the grooms and was accompanied by a violinist. In lieu of the traditional stipend for officiating, the couple happily …

Here we go again. Via Oregon’s KATU: A wedding beneath towering Mount Hood, overlooking the swift blue water of the Columbia River in the Gorge, truly felt like a fairy tale for Erin Hanson and Katie Pugh. But when the couple went to find a baker for their wedding cake, they were turned away because they are lesbians. “I found …

United Methodist minister Thomas Ogletree is facing church sanctions for presiding over the wedding of his son and another man. Dr. Ogletree, 79, is now facing a possible canonical trial for his action, accused by several New York United Methodist ministers of violating church rules. While he would not be the first United Methodist minister to face discipline for performing …

(Via Queerty)

Clip recap: “A same-sex couple celebrates their 25th anniversary by getting married in every state they legally can. This is the trailer for an upcoming feature documentary. Starring Pat Dwyer and Stephen Mosher, directed by Allan Pipe.” The film opens in New York City on Friday. 

In what may be the first such case, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against a florist who refused to provide flowers for a gay wedding on the basis of her religious beliefs.  Such lawsuits have been long and loudly predicted by anti-gay groups who regularly raised the issue during testimonies before state legislatures across the …

According to the below news report, this was the “first traditional African wedding ceremony” ever conducted for a gay couple.

NBC News reports on today’s tribal wedding in Michigan: Dexter McNamara, chairman of the 4,600-member Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan, wed Tim LaCroix, 53, and Gene Barfield, 60, of Boyne City. After McNamara read the couple’s vows and led the ceremony in English, a member of the tribe followed and conducted a tribal ceremony in …

Last week I noted that the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians had legalized same-sex marriage.  Today Michigan will see its first such wedding. Planning a wedding in less than a week doesn’t bother either Tim LaCroix or Gene Barfield. Arrangements still undecided — what to wear and who to call since there is no time to mail invitations …

(Tipped by JMG reader Alyson)