Pop the bubbly! Same-sex couples living on The Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean are finally able to obtain a legal wedding license.
Well, as soon as they show up.
Of the 48 people who inhabit the island (yes, 48), none are gay couples-in-waiting. Sounds like a place we’d hate to be trapped on.
The “country,” the last remaining British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, actually passed the law last month, but due to a problem with its official website, wasn’t able to share the good news. When you only have 48 people, what are the odds one of them is an IT guy?
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The Deputy Governor of Pitcairn, Kevin Lynch, says the change came at the behest of British authorities, and was approved by the island’s local council.
Residents celebrated by going on with life as usual, whatever that is when you live on a tiny secluded island.
Jon Michael
Mutiny on the Bounty anyone?
Dakotahgeo
LOLOL… the world’s smallest nation ‘gets’ marriage equality. The evangelicals with the smallest brain (USA) is still scratching its ass with a stick of dynamite and a lit fuse!
Dakotahgeo
The evangelicals with the smallest brain (USA) ARE still scratching their asses with a stick of dynamite and a lit fuse! (No coffee yet!).
Miguel Spatti
Will we be coming over soon
Tobi
I’m afraid that “life as usual” on Pitcairn involves spousal abuse, child pornography, paedophelia, etc. etc.
Masc Pride
*Smallest Country In The World Is Ordered to Pass Same-Sex Marriage, Still Waiting For Gay People
onthemark
@Tobi: Worse than that, unfortunately:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands#Sexual_assault_trials_of_2004
I figure they are just trying to “class up the joint” at this point!
Billy Budd
This is actually THE island where the moutiny on the bounty took place. I mean, the rebels went to Pitcairn when they escaped from Tahiti.
Chris
So the bottom line is that size matters?
Kristofer Keith Davis
Love this cute little country
Matthew Issac
I wonder how man “traditional” marriages were ruined thanks to the news
Errol Semple
I would like to go there.
James Michael
That’s brilliant
jwtraveler
Statistically about 2 1/2 of the people on the island should be gay, so that means 1.25 couples.
hamoboy
This is as clear cut a case of “pinkwashing” as there ever was. The island is famous for rape and sexual molestation of it’s female population by the male leadership of the island, as well as abusing and driving away the men who didn’t want to take part in the abuse, deciding that they were “weak”. There won’t be any gay people on the island to get married because they’ll either stay deep in the closet in fear of their rapist uncles, or get the hell out of dodge and live it up in New Zealand.