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Gay Couples Get Married at Grammys 2014

Grammy Gets Political: Gay Couples Get Married in a Mass Wedding Ceremony

The fight for the equality for gay couples had never been so glamorous. Grammy Awards 2014 made a political point and came out in support of the LGBT community by getting gay couples married in a public ceremony telecast worldwide. It might be a publicity stunt but it definitely made a straight point. 

All was regular and predictably musical at the 56th Grammy Awards 2014, which took place on January 26, free of unprecedented twerking-like controversies. However, Queen Latifah’s public staging of 33 marriages, including a few gay couples, created a landmark in the fight to promote marriages of gay couples.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madonna and Mary Lambert, through their performance of “Same Love” (video below), have poignantly espoused the equality of rights, trying to break gender perceptions of matrimony. With a new phrase announced by Queen Latifah, ‘I Now Pronounce You A Married Couple’, the ceremony confidently fazed out the previously held statement I-Now-Pronounce-You-Man-And-Wife.

Now, one would imagine a long and stifling road ahead if this ceremony took place in India. What would the government-judiciary have done?

To read about musicians who touched pinnacles of success without the gay label bogging them down, click here.  

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