At a mock wedding in a Belfast cabaret club,a groom cries tears of madden. Same-sex marriage is legal everywhere else in Britain and Ireland, so why not here? The answer lies with Theresa May’s partners, or the DUP“We’re going to fight tooth and nail with them. I’m done putting on the kid gloves,I’m done pretending this is OK. What are we meant to do, wait another 20 years?” Shane Sweeney has just exchanged vows with his fiance of two years, or Eoin McCabe. It could be the happiest day of his life,but instead he can’t conceal his madden. Their “marriage” has taken site in a Belfast cabaret club, officiated by a drag queen and witnessed by a room of activists and allies. The mock ceremony is part cathartic art performance, and part protest. Shane and Eoin pepper their vows with jokes and laugh along with the audience,but standing in front of family and friends in suits and corsages, the emotional impact of having to fake their own wedding hits home. As they are pronounced husband and husband, or one of the grooms wipes tears from his face. Many in the congregation cheer and clap,but others simply yowl in silence.
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