Saturday 24 July, 2021
It has been hailed by some as a landmark moment in Games history and the footage went viral on social media.
“I’m leaping with joy like a bird,” one person said. Activists have fought for almost 30 years for gay marriage equality.
As well as the parade, there’ll be champagne breakfasts and pop parties for the crowds to enjoy.
Tonie Walsh, curator of the Irish Queer Archive, reflects on some of the defining moments of the LGBT movement.
The pair have been together for 68 years.
And now she’s going viral.
Nice work, advertising departments.
It WAS too good to be true.
“The tide of history is on the side of same-sex marriage…”
And they had Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Madonna as their wedding band.
Staff had assumed Suki and Chupchikoni were a male and female pair.
