After passing votes to allow gay couple marry, Germany has witness its first Legally married gay couple, the men have made history by becoming the first gay couple to get married in the country.
The couple Bodo Mende, 60, and partner Karl Kreile, 59, sealed their marital vows with a passionate kiss, publicly.
They exchanged their vows in front of photographers and TV crews from around the world who packed the south Berlin registry office alongside their friends and family.
“I’m unbelievably satisfied, this is extremely symbolic to be recognised as a completely normal couple and no longer to have a second-class marriage,” Kreile said after the two cut a slice of rainbow cake.
Mende and Kreile, have both been longtime gay marriage campaigners who have been together since 1979, wanted to tie the knot as soon as possible after being among the first to enter a civil partnership back in 2002.
“This is a day we can really call historic,” Angelika Schoettler, mayor of the capital’s Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district, told the pair. “I hope a great many couples will seal a bond for life in this room, or others like it.”.
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