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Today in Focus

Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It’s a decade since the first same-sex marriages were performed in England and Wales. What have they meant for LGBTQ+ people?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Today marks 10 years since the first same-sex marriages took place in England and Wales.

0:17.0

What was changing the law meant for LGBT-Q people? LGBTQ people. How's it going? It's Jake Humphrey here from the High Performance Podcast.

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Limited. Hello lovely to meet you. Did you get down okay? I'm in Eastbourne on the south coast to meet Tracy and Lisa.

1:18.6

They live in this beautiful arts and crafts flat overlooking the sea with their two cats and a budgie called

1:26.5

Lala Lulu Susie. What are your favourite things about each other? I fell in love with Lisa's voice that just drew me to her.

1:37.5

Not just an accent, it's just there's something about the tone of your voice. I know it sounds really strange,

1:42.1

but I can pick Lisa's voice out in a crowd anywhere.

1:46.0

And for me it was just Tracy's laugh really, which you can also hear in a crowd. We're a real partnership and I think that's a real strength that if I've got a problem or a difficulty and I same for Lisa. You're the first person I would talk to

2:06.0

and share it with. Yeah but we're also not in each other's pockets I mean we can

2:11.8

disagree quite vehemently and it doesn't feel like

2:16.4

oh my god the relationship's under threat we're just having...

2:19.7

I'm here to debate.

2:21.3

I'm to debate. He to debate.

2:24.0

Lisa and Tracy never imagined they'd be able to marry.

2:27.3

They were actually booked in to have a civil partnership when in 2014 under David Cameron's coalition government, same-sex marriage was

2:35.8

legalized and they were among the first on March the 29th that year to say I do.

2:42.0

We got in the taxi you were in your full Sikh win outfit so it was just

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