LONDRA – Pochi minuti dopo la mezzanotte di venerdì 28 marzo, quando nel Regno Unito è entrata in vigore la legge che ammette i matrimoni gay, la prima coppia omosessuale si è sposata a Londra.
Alle 0.10 di sabato 29, Sean Adl-Tabatabai e Sinclair Treadway si sono sposati davanti a un centinaio di persone nel municipio del borough di Camden. Il loro sì è un segno di profondo cambiamento in un Paese che sino a poco più di dieci anni fa aveva una legge che vietava la “promozione” dell’omosessualità, poi cancellata nel 2003. La maggior parte dei cittadini britannici è favorevole ai matrimoni tra persone dello stesso sesso, perché nei sondaggi sono due terzi quelli che li sostengono, con il maggior appoggio tra i giovani.
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Sean Adl-Tabatabai, left, and Sinclair Treadway kiss each other as they are announced officially married during a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, minutes into Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, left, and Sinclair Treadway drink champagne together after they were officially married in a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, minutes into Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, left, and Sinclair Treadway stand together as the openly gay mayor of Camden Jonathan Simpson speaks at the beginning of their wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, just before midnight on Friday, March 28, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, third from left, and Sinclair Treadway, fourth from left, pose for photographs with, from left, the openly gay mayor of Camden Jonathan Simpson, deputy superintendent registrar Steven Lord and registrar officer Tania Uddin, after they were announced officially married in a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, center, and Sinclair Treadway, right, pose for photographers with the openly gay mayor of Camden Jonathan Simpson, left, after they were announced officially married in a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Sinclair Treadway signs the documentation watched by his husband Sean Adl-Tabatabai, left, after they were officially married in a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, minutes into Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, center right, and Sinclair Treadway turn and walk away hand-in-hand together after they were officially married in a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, minutes into Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
