When Hubs Cry

Yesterday the Westminster Government announced their proposals for Equal Marriage legislation in England and Wales. Unfortunately for displaced Northern Irish LGBT persons such as I have been for most of my adult live should we get married in England or Wales and then return to Northern Ireland that marriage will only be recognised as a Civil Partnership even if the couple had never been civil partnered.

Therefore I have turned to Prince for the music to sum up my feelings about this.

When Hubs Cry

Dig if you will the picture

Of you and I engaged in a kiss

The minister pronounced us husband and husband.

Can you my darling, can you picture this?

I take you home to my mother

In part of the country we’ve wed

But the homophobes strike a curious pose

And you and I are only civil partnered instead

Maybe they just want the Union to feel part of a bigger club.

Maybe our Britishness don’t matter to them.

Being gay ain’t being British to them.

Maybe we’re just too demanding, saying our blood is not fine.

Wanting equality in marriage of all things

Is pushing section 72 over the final line.

Maybe we’re not really human, not natural at any rate

But in England and Wales you and I are married

Just in Belfast we will have to wait.

Why do they scream we're repugnant

Was it because of something we've said

Is it our smell, our sound how we feel?

Or it is the other sense instead?

Why can't they accept our love darling?

You and I alone in our room

It doesn't affect how they love their wives

Yet this is what it sounds like

When Hubs cry.

(To the tune of When Dove’s Cry by Prince)