The historic documents about the church wedding were found at Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova. They were married by a priest at a small chapel. In the Middle Ages, a same-sex marriage between the two men Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz in the Galician municipality of Rairiz de Veiga in Spain occurred on 16 April 1061. This law prohibited same-sex marriage in ancient Rome and ordered that those who were so married were to be executed. 9.7.3) was issued in 342 AD by the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans. These same-sex marriages continued until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. He also married an athlete named Zoticus in a lavish public ceremony in Rome amidst the rejoicings of the citizens. First with one of his freedmen, Pythagoras, to whom Nero took the role of the bride, and later as a groom Nero married a young boy, who resembled one of his concubines, named Sporus.Īdolescent emperor Elagabalus referred to his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, as his husband. The first Roman emperor to have married a man was Nero, who is reported to have married two other men on different occasions. Īt least two of the Roman Emperors were in same-sex unions and in fact, thirteen out of the first fourteen Roman Emperors held to be bisexual or exclusively homosexual. The Almanac of Incantations contained prayers giving equal standing to the love of a man for both a woman and a man. In ancient Assyria, there was considered to be nothing wrong with homosexual love between men. Practices and rituals for same sex unions were more recognized in Mesopotamia than in ancient Egypt. Martial also mentions a number of same-sex marriages, but always in derisory terms against people whom he wants to mock. Cicero states thus that the younger Curio was "united in a stable and permanent marriage" to Antonius.
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