Posted on 12/28/2002 12:08:25 AM PST by chance33_98
Ex-Wife Walks Him To Gay Alter by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: December 28, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET/+5GMT/-3PT
(Manchester) It is unusual enough for a couple who divorce to remain friends, but for the ex-wife to escort her former husband down the isle at his next nuptials is the stuff of Hollywood.
But this wasn't Hollywood. It was gritty Manchester, home to the original TV series Queer As Folk.
39 year old Norma Stain says she was overjoyed when ex-husband David Goodall asked her to walk him down the aisle.
Goodall said his "I dos" Saturday at a gay civil ceremony to his new partner Kireon Marshall.
"I'm really happy for him and he was lucky with the weather because it rained when we got married," Stains said.
Stains and Goodall split up 13 years ago when he came out.
Goodall, 39, said: "I'd always said if I got married again Norma would walk me down the aisle. It was really nice. Everything went to plan and it was a great, great day."
About 15 people attended the ceremony including the two grown children of Stains and Goodall, 19 and Philip, 21.
Marshall and Goodall have been together for eight years.
"It's the best day of my life," said Marshall. " I had been nagging David for ages, but he kept saying he never wanted to get married again.
The couple, dressed in full highland dress in celebration of Marshall's Glasgow roots, became the latest gay couple to sign Manchester's civic partnership register.
Although the ceremony has no legal validity, the city council introduced the service in March in an attempt to pressure the government into giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights as straight couples.
Another friend got married few years ago to the ex-wife of one of his lovers.
Raise your hand if you are a heterosexual who could have sex with someone of the same sex enough times to generate two kids. Sorry. I'm not buying the "born gay" line on this one.
I actually had to read that about three times because I kept getting confused halfway through. You have weird friends, dude.
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