This August: World’s Largest Same-Sex Wedding

By Queerty Staff June 16, 2009 at 11:06am

On August 1, Australia will attempt the largest same-sex mass wedding, with organizers hoping some 400 knot-tying couples will come together. It successful, the ceremony will also be the world’s largest invalid same-sex mass wedding: Since 2004, Australia has defined marriage as a union for one man and one woman.

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Alex

Group marriages are creepy, gay, straight, or otherwise.

June 16, 2009 at 12:06pm
glen

I might take my husband, if only for the wedding night “consummation” with a few hundred Aussie boys!

June 16, 2009 at 1:06pm
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June 16, 2009 at 2:06pm

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