{"id":409004,"date":"2018-03-12T07:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409004"},"modified":"2018-03-12T07:17:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T07:17:15","slug":"australia-gay-mp-weds-colleague-proposal-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409004","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Gay MP weds colleague after proposal in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian MP has wed his partner, three months after proposing to him in parliament during a debate on legalising same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Government MP Tim Wilson and Ryan Bolger celebrated their “special day” on Sunday, the politician said online.<\/p>\n

Australian MPs voted to legalise same-sex marriage in December.<\/p>\n

Earlier that month,\u00a0Mr Wilson had become the first MP to make a marriage proposal\u00a0in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Mr Wilson and Mr Bolger, who have been together for more than a decade, were married in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.<\/p>\n

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The MP’s tweet attracted messages of congratulations from parliamentarians and others on social media.<\/p>\n

In his December speech, Mr Wilson was arguing for same-sex marriage when he turned to address Mr Bolger, who was sitting in the public gallery.<\/p>\n

“In my first speech, I defined our bond by the ring that sits on both of our left hands. They [the rings] are the answer to the question we cannot ask,” an emotional Mr Wilson said.<\/p>\n

“So there is only one thing left to do. Ryan Patrick Bolger, will you marry me?”<\/p>\n

Mr Bolger replied with a loud “yes”, prompting cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Australian MP has wed his partner, three months after proposing to him in parliament during a debate on legalising same-sex marriage. Government MP Tim Wilson and Ryan Bolger celebrated their “special day” on Sunday, the politician said online. Australian MPs voted to legalise same-sex marriage in December. Earlier that month,\u00a0Mr Wilson had become the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":409009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[17802,8753,17803],"class_list":["post-409004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd","tag-australia-mp","tag-gay-marriage","tag-member-of-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}