First legal married gay couple - October 1st, 1989 in Copenhagen
| Asked if he had any words of encouragement for gay and lesbian couples in other countries who might someday hope to be married, Eigil Axgil said: "Be open. Come out. Keep fighting. This is the way to move anything. If everyone comes out of the closet then this will happen everywhere." |
The first legal married gay couple was Axel & Eigil Axgil, who married together with 10 other couples in Copenhagen the 1st October 1989. It was a worldwide media event. But at the same time Axgils had been together for nearly 40 years, 32 of which under a comman name.
Axel and Eigil had in 1957 combined their first names into the family-name Axgil when they were in prison for gay right activism. So many gay couples also changed their names that the government soon stopped this early precurser to civil union. In 1989 the Partnership Law again made such name changes possible.
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