Welcome to our annual weddings issue. Every year for this issue, we interview real couples who tied the knot about their relationships and their big day out. It’s always wonderful to hear so many positive stories, to witness lesbian, gay and bisexual people celebrating their love. I’m from a generation who never even imagined that we’d be accepted and endorsed in this way in Ireland, a generation that never heard gay love stories, who were given the message that being gay was a lonely existence.
Nowadays, on some level, we take this acknowledgement of our relationships for granted, as if it’s always been this way. For the couples who do walk down the aisle, however, the day itself brings the privilege of being able to marry into stark relief. As one of the men we interviewed in this issue says, we may be able to get married now, but “it’s not over yet”.