Usually gay women are the first to take advantage of new laws allowing gay people to marry, but in Ireland two male partners tied the knot when a historic law came into effect.
Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling, both 35, have been together for 12 years and were married at 8:40 a.m. on Tuesday. Gollogly, a barrister from Dublin, and Dowling, who works for the Allied Irish Bank, wed in South Tipperary in a ceremony officiated by the Senior Registrar Mary Clare.
Ireland has the honor of being the first to legalize gay marriage by popular referendum. There are twenty other countries where gay people can married, but in all other places gay marriage was either enacted by legislative laws or an act of the court systems.