Gay weddings on the increase

AT least 600 homosexual couples filled in the application forms to get married in Spain during the first three months of the new law, which came into force on 3 July. Up until now, there has been in total, at least, fifty weddings between people of the same sex, according to information released from the civil registers and legal sources. The report also states that more male couples have asked to be married than female couples.
However, these figures are not conclusive as some registers have not offered the relevant information and others have not calculated the number of marriage applications from gay couples. Amongst the most famous gay weddings held or going to be held in Spain, has to be the marriage of the Socialist councillor Pedro Zerolo, who married his gay partner yesterday, and the forthcoming wedding between the Defence Lawyer of the Basque region, Iñigo Lamarca and his partner which is being held on Saturday 8 October. Madrid has received the most applications for gay weddings, with a total of 219 (up to 25 September).
In the Balearic Islands, Aragon, Navarra and La Rioja, there have so far been ten gay weddings, and as many wedding applications from gay couples.