Despite attempts from French citizens to stop the
arrangement, Bruno Boileau and Vincent Autin were joined in matrimony as man
and wife.
French police made at least one arrest as a group of
individuals tried to disrupt the marriage ceremony by booing the couple on the
way into Montpellier town hall, where the wedding was due to take place.
The passage through parliament of the legislation to
enable gay marriage has been marked by protests and riots of varying severity.
While all the leaders of the mainstream protest movements had called for
Wednesday’s ceremony to be respected, police had feared that small groups with
links to the extreme right might try to disrupt the day.
Accompanied by the police to the wedding venue where
the Mayor of the French City of Montpellier was billed to officiate, the first
two men in France to tie the knot, struggled with individuals whose boos were
mostly drowned out by the cheering of a large crowd gathered outside, that is
the gay community.
Autin(40) who works for Montpellier tourism office
and Boileau 930) a civil servant,have been dating for the past seven years and
they met While surfing the net at the same time, they both chanced on an online
fan forum for a pop star who found fame on a show similar to “Pop Idol.”
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