Australia legalized same-sex marriage on December 7, 2017 and was officially implemented in January this year. Officials disclosed the first pair of registered same-sex couples data on the 7th of this month. This 48-day marriage is not the kind of "flash marriage" you imagine, but a touching and sad love story.
Jill (Jill Kindt), 53, and Joe Grant (Jo Grant), 48, supported each other for eight years, hoping to register as life partners as soon as they learned that same-sex marriage had been legalized. But Grant, who is suffering from terminal cancer, may not be able to do so because Australia needs a 30-day waiting period after passing the bill.
Grant's elderly home staff spoke to Cary (Kari), head of marriage services. Cary thought that under special circumstances, government could be "special", so he asked the Queensland Marriage Registry for accommodation, and the other party was quick to promise to waive the fees and expressed the hope that they could be granted a marriage certificate immediately.
King (left) and Grant were officially married on December 15 last yea
On December 15, Kindt and Grant were married in (Sunshine Coast), Sunshine Coast. The marriage registry officials drove more than 100km north by Brisbane to review the documents and grant marriage certificates to make the couple Australia's first legal same-sex couples.
Although the two boys over the years, day and night each other, the feelings are still better than the first love. When asked how long she was with Grant, she said affectionately, "or a lifetime is not enough."
Pictures of King and Grant at their wedding.
Life may be too long for some, but it seems to King. Grant died on January 30, and the marriage lasted just over six weeks. " We've been legally married for 48 days. That's good. It's better than nothing. " Kindt said.
The historic marriage was announced to the public by state attorney general Yvette Darth (Yvette D'Ath) in Queensland Parliament. "it's an honor to announce today that no matter what you've seen in the media, Australia's first same-sex marriage took place in Queensland on December 15th," she said. After attending the state council question-and-answer session, she said she thanked all strangers who had helped the couple realize their dreams and thought their story would pass on.
After Australia legalized same-sex marriage, Queensland has 159 couples married.
Australia's House of Representatives voted by a large margin on December 7, 2017 to amend the marriage law to make same-sex marriage legal. Australia has since become the 26th country to allow same-sex couples to marry, and the country's same-sex couples will be able to marry in early 2018.
Australian supporters celebrate outside Canberra by legalizing same-sex marriage in December 2017.
The approval of same-sex marriage at the homosexual love Carnival, held in Sydney on the 3rd of this month, was certainly one of the reasons for the revelry.
Ms Grant suffers from a "rare cancer" that is treated conservatively. She and Kent held a ceremony of commitment in 2013. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Ms. Kindt said: "We used to think we were married [in 2013], but not in the legal sense.